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Hi,
I'm new to Drupal. I've been spending the first few days downloading many modules, while most of them do something similar to what I want, I can't seem to find ones that fit my exact needs.
Is there a module that allows you to filter taxonomy terms based on AND, OR, and NOT? For example, if I have cars that are tagged with colors. I can filter based on cars that are red OR blue, cars that are red AND blue, and cars that are red but NOT blue. After many hours, I've found one that does OR, AND, but not all three, or simply AND and NOT would suffice.
Is there a module that let's you set up a relationship between two nodes and a field that contains HOW they are related. I've found one in which the description stated this, but sadly it was for Drupal 4.7x.
Lastly I'm looking for a module that will take an image field for a certain content type and change them into a slideshow viewer. I've encountered a few, but they usually took images from multiple nodes into only one slideshow viewer. I'm looking to have a unique slideshow for each node within a certain content type. For instance, the first node in content type story might have 5 images that will be a slideshow and show within the content. The second node in story would have 5 different images as a slideshow, etc. I would need this to be based on content type rather than creating hundreds of slideshows for separate nodes.
I hope my needs are not too specific and some of these modules exist and I just haven't come across them. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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1) Is there a module that
1) Is there a module that allows you to filter taxonomy terms based on AND, OR, and NOT?
Views Module, then go to the Taxonomy Term view, apply taxonomy term filters with say two 'is one of' operators and a 'is none of' operator, exposed. OR = 'is one of'. AND = 'is one of' + 'is one of'. NOT = 'is one of' + 'is none of'
2) Is there a module that let's you set up a relationship between two nodes and a field that contains HOW they are related?
Why does Taxonomy not meet your needs?
3) Lastly I'm looking for a module that will take an image field for a certain content type and change them into a slideshow viewer.
CCK Imagefield with Lightbox2 modules might just do the trick.
1) I get a "The style
1) I get a "The style selected does not utilize fields." so it doesn't show results, but to avoid turning this into a support request I'll try playing around with it later.
2) Maybe I don't understand how to use it, but I didn't think of using taxonomy because it will link to a page with all the terms tagged as that specific tag. What I need is to set a relationship between two nodes, and how they are related and link back to each other. So if I set a relationship between node 1 and node 2, node 1 would link to node 2 and node 2 would link to node 1. So far this is accomplished with a module, but I also want to indicate how they are related.
3) I'm more of looking for it to be an inline image viewer. I have found some that do what I want, but why is it that most image viewers prefer converting attachments to slideshows and not converting image fields to slideshows? The main problem I have with this is that with an image field you can easily upload multiple images with fupload. However there doesn't seem to be a module to mass upload attachments (the kind that allows you to select multiple files from a folder at once instead of uploading one image, clicking browse to upload again, and clicking browse to upload again).
“... there doesn't seem to be
“... there doesn't seem to be a module to mass upload attachments...”
Image Module with the built in Image Upload sub-module will do this....however, its designed for creating image galleries and may not meet your needs.
"...The style selected does not utilize fields..."
Change the style to say “Grid”
“...Maybe I don't understand how to use it...”
It takes a while to wrap your head around Views and longer to appreciate the possibilities; its worth the effort.
“...I didn't think of using taxonomy because it will link to a page with all the terms tagged as that specific tag...”
You would need to create a new term for each set of pages that you wanted to tie together. If the content is static you could always just type the relationship and link into the node body. What module were you thinking of using?
“...but I also want to indicate how they are related...”
The Taxonomy Term should appear at the top of the node.
“...I'm more of looking for it to be an inline image viewer...”
I have not used CCK Imagefield, but I believe that it will put the images ‘inline’. Lightbox2 will sort out the viewing of those ‘inline’ images. Note that Couloir Slideshow is dependant on Lightbox2. Also note that views_slideshow and views_attach modules may be better for keeping your options open for future changes, I can't comment on the difference as I have only used Lightbox2, but reading the text on both of them I think I should have gone with views_slideshow and views_attach.
“...The main problem I have with this is that with an image field you can easily upload multiple images with fupload....”
I am not sure what you are getting at, but remember the image needs to be associated with a node (unless you do the link manually), hence, one at a time. Image Upload does one at a time on mass.
I guess what I am really saying is, put the time and effort into working out how to use Views and don't be too quick to install non Drupal 7 supported module.
About the mass upload what I
About the mass upload what I meant is the kind where you can click one item and hold ctrl or shift and select others, or simply drag and select multiple images and upload. With attachments it seems you have to click browse, select one file, hit upload and repeat. If you need to attach 20 images, this can get quite tedious. So I was surprised that there was no module to select multiple files and upload in one click.
Actually the couloir slideshow isn't dependent on the lightbox2, but if you have lightbox2 and click the image it will popup in a lightbox, if not it will go to the original image.
For the relationships I'm currently using a node reference. I think to easiest explain what I want to do we can say that I have two movie pages. One movie is Matrix, the second is Matrix 2. There will be a small table to list relations. Under the relations heading Matrix 2 would be listed as the sequel and it would link to that page. On the Matrix 2 page, under relations, Matrix would be listed and would link to that node.
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For the third question, you should be able to do this with the views_slideshow and views_attach modules.
One slideshow I really like
One slideshow I really like is the one found here: http://blazingwolf.com/drupal6/
However, this sets up a block to a certain folder of images. If I want a different slideshow on each page of a certain node type, I'd have to create many of these blocks and set them only to show on a certain node, which would probably be quite troublesome as your content increases.