Weblinks block to display links for all subgroups

The related block doesn't show up simply with enabling it in admin>site building>blocks and I cannot find any other settings for this block. Can you point me to the information on setting that up?

Thanks,

Izzy

Thanks, yes that works to show the related block and it does show the the Group and subgroup names with the number of links as specified in the settings for that block. If there are no subgroups then it doesn't show the group name either which is probably fine.

It would still be nice to be able to have such a display for any web links group that has subgroups that can be displayed where you want. Could that be an option on each of the weblink block configurations or done some other way?

Also the way that the related block becomes active raises an interesting question about the use of web link terms. Normally, with taxonomy the inclusion of a term on a post also adds that post to the nodes that are displayed when the term is clicked on, whereas in the case of weblinks that is not the case (and would not be what you want when displaying links) but this is a departure from the normal behaviour of taxonomy terms. It is useful to understand how the related block works and I will need to experiment with it now that I know how it works.

Thanks,

Izzy

This thread may now be at risk of containing two different thoughts.

The first, that of having a block that can display weblinks from a group and children subgroups was the purpose of the original post. You appear to have answered that would be a new feature request and may be difficult to implement.

The additional question that arose was in what way does the behaviour of the weblink group term seem different from other taxonomy terms? It may be best to drop this as I would agree that what happens is quite appropriate. That is when another post, say a blog entry has the weblinks group term applied to it and a user clicks on it they see just a display of those weblinks, they do not also see all other nodes/posts that also have that weblinks group term attached which is what happens with terms from other regular vocabularies. But, I do see now that the behaviour of weblinks is similar to other modules that create their own vocabulary such as forums. Clicking on those terms takes the user to a list of forum topics in that forum. Sorry for any confusion my comment may have caused.

Back to the feature request, a block with weblinks from a group and its subgroups, sounds like it will have to wait.

Thanks very much,

Izzy

Yes, and I appreciate why you do that.

Thanks,

Izzy