By betsyj on

I'm missing the basics of getting started building a Glossary. A few minutes from someone who knows would be greatly appreciated. I am using Drupal 4.7, the newest version of Categories, the taxonomy wrapper, and have flexinode installed.

How do I get started? I don't see any settings for glossary anywhere?
Thanks

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krypton1’s picture

krypton1 commented

I'm also struggling through this right now. Any help would be appreciated.
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Stephen Winters commented

I just got finished installing the Glossary module in three Drupal 4.7x websites, so I thought I'd write out some basic steps here:

Installing the Glossary Module

More details instructions (for some of the following steps) can be found in the Glossary Readme file
Configured Glossary.

  • First downloaded from http://drupal.org/project/glossary
  • Upload to your website control panel in your file: /drupal/modules
  • Go to website, Administer>Modules and enable glossary module
  • Go to Administer>Categories: Add Vocabulary (s), then add some terms
  • Go to Administer>Input Formats: Choose one of the input formats, for example chose “Filtered HTML”, click on “configure”
  • Under the “View” tab, under “Filters,” enable the Glossary filter”, click “Save Configuration”
  • Now, at the top of the same page, click on the “configure” tab.
  • Click on “Glossary Filter” which will open up some choices. In the “Select Vocabulary” box, click on the vocabulary term(s) that you created in Administer>Categories. Then make additional configuration choices in the boxes below, then click on “save configuration”

    Your Glossary Module should be working now.

  • To create additional glossary entries, go to Administer>Categories (as you did above) and enter more.
  • (when your create Vocabulary (in Administer>Categories above), menu items and blocks are created for them, but not enabled.)
  • If you want your Vocabulary to be on the website menu, go to Administer>Menus and enable them.
  • If you want your Vocabulary to have its own menu block, go to Administer>Blocks and enable them.

    I've also put this in the Handbook here: Installing and Configuring the Glossary Module for Drupal 4.7

    Stephen
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    • venkat-rk’s picture

    venkat-rk commented

    I hope you are also aware of Jaza's tip for making glossary work with category module. Here it is:

    4.7 version works with category.
Note: you must enter the definition for each glossary term in the category's 'description' field, rather than in its 'body' field. Otherwise, glossary.module ignores the term and displays nothing.