druplers opinion on best approach to node reference task ahead

Posted by tommeir on March 23, 2009 at 11:19pm

Hi everybody, I am tweaking with my web site for a few good hours(days actually) trying to find the best way to this, I though of asking someone who has more experience with drupal then I.

I have a database of articles categorized using 3 (maybe more on the future) taxonomy vocabularies.
I need to create a new content type which will work as a link-menu to different articles on a specific order.
this too will be categorized using the same taxonomy settings.

The end result should look something like this:

new post : my recommended recipes
post content:

title: my ecommended recipes
body: just some introduction text here
articles:
1. article #3216 - chocolate cake - (taxonomy details here)
2. article #1232 - low cal cheese cake - (taxonomy details here)
3. ....
4. .....

the author should have the ability to change the order in which the node links are shown. and the taxonomy details is really a bonus, if you can help me do that as well that would be greate but not critical for my site.

so, any Idea guys? how to enable node reference without going insane trying to find the currect article? (I have a lot of articles and Im using faceted search but have no idea how to make it work with nodereference)

I really appreciate your help.

Comments

any takes on the issue? is

Posted by tommeir on March 31, 2009 at 9:33am

any takes on the issue? is there a way to make node selection by end users easy?
does outline designer can do the trick?

there must be some kind of way in drupal to make a node with links refering to other nodes by end users without knowing how many links in advance and by using a reasnable UI

Will each user only have one

Posted by joachim on March 31, 2009 at 9:43am

Will each user only have one recommendations page?
Will they need introductory text, or is it just the list of links?
Because if so, you might be better off using something like flag module or nodequeue modules.
Flag module will let users create a list of bookmarks. You can then use views to list them.
Nodequeue is the same sort of idea, except they are ordered. Setting up queues per user might take a bit more work.
In both cases, you mark the node you want adding to a list on the node itself.

would Collection module help?

Posted by adam_b on March 31, 2009 at 3:02pm

I haven't tried it, but might be worth taking a look: http://drupal.org/project/collection

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Posted by tommeir on April 1, 2009 at 6:29pm

joachim -
The list of recommendations is not related to any user. but any user can create then and make a new collection to contribute to the site.
I think an introductory text will be needed, but that should be easy with cck.
Ill look into the nodequeue thing, look's like it might work.

thanks for the reply

adam_b - thank you for tipping on the module, this just looks like it might do the trick.

I really appreciate your help guys.