Hi all!
I'll ask forgiveness first, since I'm a noob to Drupal :)
I have a few categories that have more than one content type in them. I did this so that *some* content could have a "submitted by xxx" and some would not. (You can control this by content TYPE in themes).
So I create a "Story" type and vocab called "Local News" for articles that should have a byline, and a "No Byline" type and vocab called "Local News" as well for those that shouldn't have a byline.... seemed simple enough, even if a little convolute..
To create a user visible category that contains posts from both I've used a URL alias something like this:
/local_news = taxonomy/term/3+12
The frustrating thing is that now the category page on the site displays: Local News, Local News at the top. arrggh...
I just want ONE Local News at the top.. My users need to post content of differing types and have them all appear in this area... some w/ byline & some without
Is this possible? or have I approached the problem in entirely the wrong way?
Thanks in advance!
Comments
Just to make sure I
Just to make sure I understand your problem: Did you create one or two vocabularies called "Local News"?
Two, as follows: Created
Two, as follows:
Created Content Type: No Byline (Articles of this type WILL NOT display a byline)
Added Category: Section (No Byline type) Added Term: Local News
Created Content Type: Story (Articles of this type WILL display a byline)
Added Category: Section (Story type) Added Term: Local News
There's no need to create a
There's no need to create a new vocabulary for each content type: You can assign a vocabulary to multiple content types, this way both "Story" and "No Byline" posts will be listed on your "Local News" page.
Tried that... But the
Tried that...
But the result is that when an author goes to submit a story two separate dropdown boxes are presented above the article form each with an identical list of categories in which publish the story (one list for "No Byline" one list for "Story". Confusing to the author. would really prefer something a bit more elegant.
Here's the desired process:
Author goes to submit a story, should be able to select which category it goes into from a single set of choices, and ALSO decide whether it's published with a byline or not; either by selecting the template, or a radio button or some such thing.
This is an important issue in the news industry as it is standard practice to publish news release material without a byline and authored content must have a byline- often within the same section (ie.e local news, sports, etc.)
Thanks for all your help.
Simpler approach
Why not using just one instead of two vocabularies and checking both "Story" and "No Byline" as content types on the vocabulary's setting page? This way an editor can distinguish between Byline/No Byline by content type and there will be only one dropdown-box for the categories. (And both Story- and No-Byline-Posts will get listed in the right category).
This may do the trick..
This may do the trick.. although I'm now wondering - does this mean the multitude of stories already posted under 2 different vocabularies will have to be redone? I'm afraid that might be the case.. is there an easy way to convert stories that were entered under the 2 vocabularies to just one at this point?
Thanks so much!
If you have really large
If you have really large amounts of content/categories to reorganize, in Drupal 5 http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_node_operations should do the trick.