How to organize content
dailypress - June 12, 2009 - 15:35
What is the best way to add a "related topic" section:
Cloud, Taxonomy, ??
I would like to add links similar to Related Searched of Yahoo or other major sites.
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http://drupal.org/project/cre
http://drupal.org/project/similar
http://drupal.org/project/relevant_content
Though your title suggest content organization and for that you would use taxononmy. tag clouds only work with taxonomy so you can go that route if wanted but as the links give suggest there are muliple methods and feature sets to handle this type of request.
edit: found this: http://drupal.org/node/323329 which may be of use as well.
thanks. I will have to read
thanks. I will have to read about all. I am not familiar with Taxonomy either. I tried to install it a few months ago and wasnt successful and gave up. I will give them another shot.
Looking for something similar with Videos
More like how YouTube has it. I've got it set with the main page playing the video but the right column just lists as many as I select in the attachment display. Trying to get that right column to display related content thumbnails to the video that is playing.
Have taxonomy terms set up and thought that would be the way to go, but don't know how to show only related thumbnails.
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you can stay on the taxonomy method but you would create a view which creates lists you can use in blocks or on pages. creating views is done with the views.module.
Thanks for the quick reply
I have it in views and created a page display with the main video in the center and created an attachment display with a list of all the thumbnails. I used the Media Browser Module for that
http://drupal.org/project/media_browser
I'm stuck on making the list of thumbnails be only the ones related to the video that is being currently viewed.
In other words, it displays correctly like YouTube, but lacks the functionallity of the thumbnails on the right being "related" to the current video being viewed.
This may be something simple, I'm new to Drupal...my first attempt at views.
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you will have to explain how you expect views to understand what is "related"
or how you want things "related" ?
if you are using taxonomy, and the videos are categorized in a fine grained way, I don't understand where there is no relationship.
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What I want to relate is the thumbnails in the attachment display to be related to the video being viewed.
Have about 50 videos total.
It's for a school, so we have speaker series where there would be a different speaker every week all within the same series. My taxonomy has videos of 5 speakers on International Rights. I've created a taxonomy term called "International Rights" that only apply to those 5 videos.
So a user is watching one of the 5 videos, on the right side I want the other 4 videos and their thumbnails to be links for the same speaker series to be displayed. Now it is showing thumbnails on the right but is alphanumeric list of all videos. I've actually limited that to 4 in the settings just to keep the page from scrolling forever. When I click on the thumbnails that are displaying, it does bring up the new page but with the same 4 thumbnails.
Example, they click one thumbnail link about preparing for exams. I have a taxonomy term called "academics" with a different set of 3 videos, I'd want it to display the exam video and the other 2 academic videos.
I do have taxonomy term in my fields of all the displays and defined in my relationship as "Taxonomy: Parent term"
Whew...hope I'm explaining that clearly without overkill!
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you would likely have to add more terms. Right now, if you are creating a view based on the term "international rights" then yes, it will give back all videos tagged with that term.
Thus, I think I'd try to also use a "series" taxonomy which should let you list by "series" ex: series 1, series 2 so on so forth.
then you may be able to pull from internatinal rights AND series?
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First, thanks for your time helping me with this, I really appreciate it!
I was thinking like you said and created series terms.
Still having the problem though, it is giving me the those results based on the term/terms but it is also giving me back all the other records.
I think I see my error...I'm adding it under relationships. Rookie error!