Hi there,
I' trying to set up the structure of my new site, and I'm having trouble how to setup category module's containers and categories correctly.
Here is what I want to do
Let's say it's a car site
for the sake of the example let's say I'm going to talk only about VW's cars...
Ok so the 4 node types are
These node types are also vocabs (containers) as well...
- user review (of a car)
- Car details (written by my or staff writters)
- Picture of the car (submitted by users.. like here is my car... )
- Finally, used car to sell (submitted by users)
And I have 4 categories
Golf
Jetta
Passat
and... hum... Polo
okay...
Now the thing is I want to have category index pages for each node type (easy). So I could in theory see all the cars in the car review page.
But what I want my categories to apply to all 4 node types, So for example in all 4 node types before submitting, the user would have to select the car model (category) he is talking about.
The problem I have is that if I create the same 4 car models categories under each container they won't actually communicate with one another.
So this means that for example I could set up to see all user reviews about jetta... But when cliking on Jetta I would like to see all the nodes that are referring tJetta ordered by node type...
This can't happen if I insert the same 4 categories in each container.
So I thought that the way to go would be to base my sites's structure on the car models and then adding categories as the node types....
It would be like
Jetta
Golf
Passat
Polo
Those would be my vocabs...
And then in each I would add 4 categories (user reviews, pics, for sale, etc...) But the same problem appears, in the other way around...
I can go to jetta and select the for sale cars, but what if I want to see all the for sale cars, I can't because there are separated by the categories....
A solution would be to go by car model and not to add categories for the content (node) type, but then I could not order the nodes by type???
I could order them, but I could not present to the user a index page for each node type AND each model of car?
I hope this message is clear enough so you can understand my problem!
Thanks..
ps... is the only solution the clipper module?
