Hi, the description of the module sounds interesting. But I fail to figure out what exactly it does and how to make it work?

I have the module installed and created an "Association" attached to all content types with criteria being Tags. Ok. But now? Where does this association show up? How can I make use of it?

What do you use the module for?

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jfberroyer’s picture

jfberroyer commented

Hi.

There will be soon a documentation.

Once you have created and configured an association (setting criteria and weight, max number of associated nodes etc.), you can use associated_nodes_get_all($node), where $node is a node object or a nid, to get all associated nodes for all associations (or you can use associated_nodes_get($aid, $node), where $aid is an association id, to get the associated nodes for a particular association.

The module associated_links, which is part of the project, is an example of how to use those functions. If you activate this module, then you can add a block for each association. This block contains links to associated nodes on nodes pages.

I hope this will help you.

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chasz commented

screenshots please.

is it a list of nodes underneath the node and above the comments?

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jfberroyer commented

No, it's a list of nodes in a block.
Once you have installed Associated Links, go to admin/build/block
You will see a block named "Associated Links : name-of-your-association". If you have defined several associations, you will have several blocks.
You just have to put the block in the region you want. It will appear on a node page.

Maybe the module "Associated Links" should have been named "Associated Blocks"...

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chasz commented

How does taxonomy terms relationships work?

obviously this overrides that?

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jfberroyer commented

I'm not sure to understand. By taxonomy terms relationships, do you mean taxonomy terms hierarchy ? If so, simply put, all terms in the hierarchy of each of the terms of a node are taken into account, and the matching score depends of the amount of terms two nodes have in common.

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ansorg commented

hi again,

thanks for adding the documentation but I still don't get it (non native english speaker)

I started with a default Drupal-6.10 setup. I created a vocabulary "Tags" and some taxonomy terms. Then I created a few pages and stories and added "Tags" to them.

Now I enabled "Associated Nodes", "Associated Nodes Taxonomy" and "Associated links" modules. I created an association for content types page and story, max number: 10 and choose my vocabulary "Tags" as criterion (no constraints).

Finally I added the now available Block "Associated Links : Pages to story" to the right sidebar.

When I now go to "Page A" that has Tag "A" I expect to see links to some stories that also have Tag "A" in the right sidebar. But there appears nothing - not even a block header.

Where is my mistake (or misunderstanding of the module)?

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jfberroyer commented

Hi,
Have you given a weight to your taxonomy criterion ? Only nodes that matching score is positive (not nul or negative) can be taken as associated nodes.
The Associated links block will not appear if there are no associative nodes.

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ansorg commented

The weight!

I left it at "0". Changing this to 1 made the association working

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jfberroyer commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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