Posted by taite11 on June 1, 2009 at 9:52pm
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| Project: | Taxonomy Filter |
| Version: | 6.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | solotandem |
| Status: | postponed (maintainer needs more info) |
Issue Summary
It would be great if we could create multiple "refine criteria" blocks.
Example scenario) There are 3 vocabularies - location, user tags and category. When on a "category" page we can currently use taxonomy filter to help us drill down by location or user tag which is great. Problem is, a user might want to use those as seperate blocks so they can be placed on different parts of the pages.
Comments
#1
Interesting idea. Seems to raise a number of questions such as:
Can you provide a picture of what you are thinking of?
#2
It would just add the ability to add more blocks, then users could use the regular block management methods to place them where they want.
For settings, I suppose that (ideally) a setting would be needed to choose the "block" on .../settings/taxonomy_filter/mappings, then another tab would be needed to add/edit blocks. So there would be one block by default, but a user could click on the "blocks" tab and then "add block" to add another block. Then there would be an additional column on settings/taxonomy_filter/mappings where they could select the block that they want the given tags/menu/whatever it's called to show up in. Know what I mean? I don't understand the code so I don't know if what I'm saying is right along those lines. I'm just thinking of how it would be done from a user's perspective.
For the specific page that originally made me think of this. I would lay it out as follows:
=====================Header=========================
=====leftbar==== ===central column(termpage)=== ====rightbar====
=locationtagsblock= ----------------------------------- ==usertagsblock==
For this page the "locations" are more important so their on the left and the "user tags" would be a cloud menu on the right.