Multiple Web Link input
dsellers154 - May 3, 2009 - 15:39
| Project: | Web Links |
| Version: | 6.x-2.0-beta1 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed |
| Issue tags: | Roadmap |
Description
Is there a way to create several weblinks at one time? A multiple input form?
#1
Well, when I add a link, there is a link to add another at the top of the page. From my experience with the Quotes module, which does have multiple input, I would discourage this as there are several problems with multiple inputs, including all the other stuff you can do with a node, such as taxonomy, attached images, etc. IMO, this should be marked "won't fix" but I will leave that decision to Robert.
#2
I might be nice to have. Hopefully 7.x will have a more ajaxy interface for data entry but for now it goes away from the goal of making the interface as close to Drupal core as possible.
Thanks
Robert
#3
See also #217055: Text import of links.
#4
#5
As suggested, here's some old code ( Drupal4.7 !!)
That assisted in a migration of a site that was largely just links to other resources.
Old HTML were lists of links.
This code (IIRC) added a tab to a node that brought up a link analysis page.
- All embedded hrefs/URLs in the source text were listed
- those hrefs that represented an existing weblink were marked
- those hrefs that appeared to be unknown got a button next to them "convert to weblink"
- pressing that button would (via AJAX)
- - check the URL was valid
- - create a new weblink node for that URL
- - fetch that named URL content and extract the title of the remote page for the new weblink.
So old hand-maintained lists of links became in short order indexes of weblink nodes.
I can't remember if they were tagged
I don't know what, if any of this code is re-usable, but here it is anyway.
#6
Dan, you always have an interesting piece of code laying around. For others who don't know, Dan is also the one who started Taxonomy Image on the way to a contrib style module, which in turn influenced Web links to go that way.
This might also be handy for #316087: Collecting weblinks.
#7
I'm just starting to investigate the Web Links module but wouldn't the Node Import module work for this?
#8
See #91008: Import / Export / Backup links. Something along that line will probably be the solution but is not necessarily what was originally intended.