[drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary

[Ron Mahon]

I believe it has to be a separate sub section as they all belong to the same
group. Dividing them will come back to haunt you. Also don't over look the
possibility (power of) that one card maybe cross listed in more than one
group. Look again to the examples in the taxonomy help section.

I haven't tried the search function on tax terms, but with a list that big I
would hope it would work.

Do these cards have other qualities other than name that you could group
then in to.

I.e. if I am looking for a warrior do I care it it's male of female. Even if
I do it's still a sub section of warrior.

Regards
Ron




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-----Original Message-----
From: Anisa [mailto:mystavash at animecards.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:46 AM
To: drupal-support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary

The document team is busy.  ;)  Go bug the development team.

The list I am thinking of is really really big.  Arranged alphabetically, it
could get anywhere from 10 -  30 terms a letter. 

If I were to stack them like cards, I would probably divide them like I do
ACO, in groups of 3 letters, although some letters have more series than
others.  Or by letters.

Would each pile of cards be a seperate *vocabulary* or a seperate subsection
IN a vocabulary?

Anisa.


Ron Mahon wrote:

>Anisa
>I think you need to model how you would look them up if they were 
>physical cards in your hand.
>How many piles would you make? How would you name them?
>
>Then Look at how I did it at http://inmrc.com Look at Site Navigation 
>and at the site map.
>For a large list You need to not have it expand automatically.
>
>It would be really terrific if I could figure out how to make the term 
>display instead of the taxonomy link.
>
>I believe it can be done! Maybe a job for the Document team.
>
>Ron
>
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>
>InterNet Marketing Resource Center
>A Free Super Mart of Articles, Demos, Tutorials everything you need to 
>Succeed on the net.
>www.inmrc.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anisa [mailto:mystavash at animecards.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:57 AM
>To: drupal-support at drupal.org
>Subject: [drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary
>
>I am looking for advice.
>
>I am planning to make a vocabulary of Anime Series.  (ah, the rare girl 
>otaku ;).  I haven't thought it all through, but I believe making the 
>vocabulary has lots of benefits in terms of cross referencing 
>everything on the site.
>
>Obviously, there are thousands of series, though.  Technically, I will 
>limit them to things that have to do with the site, which cuts it down
some.
>
>I initially split it up into # - B, C - E, etc, but ran into problems 
>with the cvs weblinks module, since it would only let you choose one 
>vocabulary for navigation, and I wanted it to spit out links for each 
>series (it makes sense for what I was trying to do, promise).
>
>So then, I thought, okay, maybe it would be better to make it all one 
>big list.  But as I make it, I lose confidence.  Is this how people 
>deal with large vocabularies in Drupal?  I don't know that I want my 
>users to have to select from such a big list, but six little lists looked
ugly too.
>
>Any advice appreciated.
>
>Anisa.
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