Cumulus - installation and usage
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Last modified: November 9, 2009 - 02:15
The Cumulus module provides a very nice eye candy way to display 3D tag clouds.
The 12 steps to get up and running
- Download the project from http://drupal.org/project/cumulus
- Unpack and upload the project to your 'sites/all/modules' directory
- Using the editor of your choice, create a new file named cumulus.js
- Point your browser to either http://pratul.in/files/cumulus.js or http://pratulkalia.googlepages.com/cumulus.js
- Copy the javascript code to your new cumulus.js file and save.
- Upload the new cumulus.js file into the cumulus module directory at 'sites/all/modules/cumulus'
- Enable the module at 'admin/build/modules'
- Gather id's of taxonomy vocabulary that you want cumulus to operate on by navigating to 'admin/content/taxonomy'. Hover over the "edit vocabulary" operation link to see the vocab id in the browser status bar. In the case that your browser has no status bar, you can also click the "edit vocabulary" link and then read the vocabulary id out of the url.
- Insert your cumulus enabled vocab id's into the block configuration at 'admin/build/block/configure/cumulus/0' as comma separated values. This field is the second one from the top.
- Enable the block at the 'admin/build/block' page. Simply drag the block into a region other than disabled, and click save.
- Modify user permissions at 'admin/user/permissions' to your needs
- And finally, do any other visual configurations to the block as you see fit...
Cumulus is a great project but installing and configuring it can be a bit more challenging than many other modules. Well worth the time spent though!
Greek language (and other non-latin)
In order for Cumulus to display non-latin languages you need to modify the .swf file
Details on how to do so are here: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-more-characters-to-wp-cumu...
In order to display greek characters you can use the modified .swf from here: http://ourland.terramythia.com/wordpress/archives/103
It worked for me (at least in the current version of cumulus which is 6-1.3)
I just copied "tagcloud.swf" in the cumulus directory in drupal and renamed it to "cumulus.swf"
Cumulus module
tnx guys, it works very well for me and the 12 steps are more than usefull :D
External Links
Hi,
First of all my compliments, excellent module!
Works great.
I want to implement this module on the site of my soccer club to link to a lot of sponsors.
Is it posible to place external links in to this module?
Thanks in advance.