By ptilu8 on

First sorry for my english...

Just new to Drupal, played a lot with taxonomy, modules...

Here are the noob questions :

- I have News category(vocabulary) with subcats(terms), Subnews1, Subnews2 and so on... What do I need to do if I want the Stories in Subnews1 to be published also in News parent category? Must I assign those stories to category News1 and Subnews1 ??

- What if I want a particular block on top (Above content) of Subnews1 page, another on top of Subnews2, News and other page ?? What trick, snippet or module(s) should I use ???

Please bump me in the right way !!

Thanks...

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styro commented

You can't assign content to vocabularies, just terms. Vocabularies are just containers for grouping terms together. Terms are less like categories and more like tags - ie instead of something being assigned to a category it is more like that something being tagged with metadata.

You can make your vocabs heirarchical though if you need parent terms.

I hope that makes things a little clearer.

PS: The name "categories" in the menu was changed from "taxonomy" a couple of versions back to supposedly make things easier for newbies but I think it backfired as people have preconceived ideas about what a category means which quite often don't match with the Drupal feature.

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ptilu8 commented

Thanks for the reply, things are getting clearer...

What about a way to add a block at top of some pages, based on taxonomy ??? Can't find a way to achieve that. Should I theme or use view_module ??

Pretty confused...

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styro commented

What about a way to add a block at top of some pages, based on taxonomy ???

Well that depends on exactly you want to do. There are plenty of modules that use taxonomy to create blocks of all kinds. There are also listings of PHP snippets in the Handbook that can be pasted into blocks.

I think there is also a module that turns any 'view' from the views module into a block.

Start trawling through the module listings and trying out the ones that sound useful on a test site.

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