Hi all
I've been trawling through the mods, and I can't seem to find one that does what I need... I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.
A bit of background:
My client is a really basic user of computers, and the mysterious 'interweb' holds many horrors for him. He also runs his own business and wants his customers to be able to purchase his goods (fine wines mmm) through his website. I have chosen Drupal as a solution for delivery of his new e-commerce site as I have used it several times before, and I love it's simplicity and modular approach. I should also be able to get him up to speed fairly quickly on how to put new products online etc. etc.
The Question:
I need to give my client an easy way of adding links to other nodes (namely products) into his pages to facilitate cross selling and such. Is there a mod that will help me do this? I want to avoid him having to type any kind of markup into the page.
Using 4.6...
Here's hoping :)
Cheers
Flea
Comments
Are you using a WYSIWYG
Are you using a WYSIWYG editor? I wanted to add a button (TInyMCE) to display a list of nodes in the website for selecting, and then it would automatically add the right html link without any messing.
Would this be a similar requirement for you?
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TinyMCE
I have installed TinyMCE, but am having issues with it's treatment of images in this version.
Essentialy, though, my answer to your question is yes - this is exactly the sort of functionality I was after.
Am I right in thinking there is no module from Drupal that allows a user to do this? It seems a pretty basic bit of functionality - hyperlinking - and I would imagine that not having to find the term or node id to then hand code a link would be pretty popular added functionality.
Scale
Problem was it's not just 'hyperlinking' - it's the selection that's the problem.
Most live community sites quickly grow to hundreds and thousands of nodes, in one big bag, often without fantastic titles.
Your interface to select nodes is either one big list selectbox (I know, I built one and everybody hated it, including me), or something jazzy and DHTML
OR... it's the new AJAX Auto-complete field.
I don't like auto-complete much, I think I prefer to 'browse', but the great wysiwyg remote page browse interface has yet to be built.
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Scalability
Point taken - re massive sites = massive selction available.
It'd be nice to have some filtering based selction technique - ie. find all nodes that fulfill criteria such as:
1) it's a currently published node
2) it has a picture attached
3) it was published in the last three months
4) it was posted by Mrs. X
etc.
However, I'm not daft enough to think that I'm now talking about an existing module... I am now dreaming of what could be. If I had the coding ability I'd probably take a stab at this myself. Alas, I don't...
Thanks all for input.
Leverage Taxonomy / Book
What if it had a drop down of taxonomy (category) items and when you clicked on one it would show you all the relevant pages?
Also for books, you could easily navigate down the taxonomy tree to find what you are looking for. If this was even implement just for the book module I think it would be a fantastic addition.