Periodical

Summary

Manage issues of periodicals like journals and magazines as taxonomy terms.

Installation

1. Install and enable periadical module
2. Navigate to Administration / Structure / Taxonomy
3. Choose "list terms" on the vocabulary you want to use as a periodical
4. Click on "Generate Issues" and confirm activation of periodical fields
5. Optionally you may customize the widget used for the issue date (e.g. date_popup)

Usage

1. Navigate to Administration / Structure / Taxonomy
2. Choose "list terms" on the vocabulary you want to use as a periodical
3. Click on "Generate Issues"

Configure issue generation rule

1. Set values for First Issue Number and First Issue Date
2. Choose at least a period (Days, Weeks, Months) and the date of the last issue
3. Optionally choose months and weekdays in the advanced fieldset
4. Optionally add exception dates in the "Except" and "Additional" fieldsets

Configure Term Template

Choose issue number and publication date tokens from the "Generated Issue" group to automatically compute the name of the generated terms. Tokens are also replaced in the description field.

Click on "Continue" in order to generate the terms.

Dependencies

• date >= 7.x-2.0-alpha5
• token

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