Hi

Is there any way to restrict the node-type used in the stats? There is nothing in the settings. It would be useful if you could restrict the module to inlcude only node-types that are dynamic content, and keep off your info pages or custom navigation pages. I have five custom navigation pages, and they are always appearing as the top 'stories', when they aren't really stories?

Otherwise, an awesome module that does a number of important jobs neatly and effectively.

Comments

syscrusher’s picture

syscrusher commented
Category: support » feature

That's actually a feature that I have thought about adding for the new version. I just have to decide how I want to do it in the UI. :-)

Scott

sangamreddi’s picture

sangamreddi commented

1+ from my side. I am looking for the same.

helsinki’s picture

helsinki commented

Good stuff.

And if it can be backported to 4.6, as many people are not yet ready to move up to 4.7 until more the old 4.6 have been modified to fit 4.7 compliance.

syscrusher’s picture

syscrusher commented

Backport: Maybe later, but not now, due to time constraints. Among other things, I'm the lead developer on the new Links Package for 4.7, and I really need to get that out the door concurrent with Drupal 4.7. If I build the new feature for 4.7, perhaps someone can contrib a back-port patch? Right now I'm focused on the Links work and on getting my other modules 4.7-ready. The couple of new features in HOF now were just low-hanging fruit while I happened to be in the code already. :-)

Not meaning to put you off, just being realistic about my time commitments.

Scott

marcoBauli’s picture

marcoBauli commented

+1 this feature would definitely make this already good module great!

Also i add my two cents:

could be possible to select which content-types to include and which to exclude in the HOF?
I personally have a couple of content types for admin only and for suggestions, and i'd like to remove them from the stats...this is equally true for categories (using the Category module): not really meaningful to show "categories" and "containers" stats for them.

Having a list of the content-types with checkboxes (check what types to consider in HOF) could be a straightforward way to to this. Unfortunately no coder here, but i will offer donation/testing ;)

cheers

syscrusher’s picture

syscrusher commented

Believe it or not, I still consider this a "live" issue. As I've been working toward Drupal 7 with this module, I'm thinking about how to implement this with reasonable default behavior. This is challenging because admins can create or delete node types and might forget to update HOF's settings when they do so.

The best idea I have had is to include all node types by default, but in the HOF settings provide a checkbox array allowing specific types to be excluded, rather than the other way around. This would make the default behavior as it has always been, and if a new type is created, it would be included in HOF by default. I am of the opinion, admittedly without formal statistics, that most admins will create their special static content types (the things we don't want included in HOF) fairly early in a site's life cycle. After initial setup, I would assume most new content types would be dynamic content that one would want to include.

Comments welcome.

anonymous07’s picture

anonymous07 commented

Subscribe.

(Really just trying to find a snippet to show popular content of certain content types in Drupal 6. Not as a module or as extensive as this one here; just to duplicate the "popular content" blocks but select the content types to be included/excluded. All other snippets I have found are for D5 or earlier and don't work in D6).