[drupal-support] Help with Structure

[Jeremy Epstein]

Hi Chris,

A vocabulary is a "way" of classifying content. If your site
classifies content in several ways, then it will need several
different vocabularies. This is a hard concept to understand at first,
but once you get the hang of it, you will find Drupal much easier to
use (in terms of taxonomy, at least).

I agree with Gerhard's suggestion that you need three vocabularies:

1. Primary category
2. Community
3. Issue

The terms in the "Primary category" vocabulary would be "General
news", "business headlines", etc. The terms in the "Community"
vocabulary would be "LA", "San Francisco", etc. The terms in the
"issue" vocabulary would be "1", "2", "3", etc.

If you set up your site with these vocabularies, you can then install
taxonomy browser. When you enable taxonomy browser, and configure it
to use these three vocabularies, then it will generate a page with
three drop-down boxes, one for each vocabulary. So your users can look
for articles that are related to "business headlines", in issue "3",
for the "New York City" community.

By the way, I think it's really wonderful that you're blind (wait, I
haven't finished!), and are able to set up and administer a Drupal
site. It really shows that all the effort that's been put into
accessibility and usability in Drupal is paying off. If it's not too
much to ask, would you be able to reply with some comments about your
experiences using Drupal so far, as a blind person? If you haven't
used Drupal very much yet, then perhaps in a few weeks' time. But I
think the community would be very interested in hearing your feedback.

Jeremy Epstein.
www.greenash.net.au

On 6/5/05, Christopher Taylor <christ at bnmc.com> wrote:
>  
> Hi, 
>   
> My name is Chris. 
> I may have mentioned before that I am blind so I use speech to interact with
> the computer.  I only mention this as I may have some poorly visually
> designed examples or content. 
>   
> I am working on an important project that I needed some possible help with. 
>   
> I am trying to build a news and community portal which can easily be set up
> with different cities like Craigslist. 
>   
>   
> It will be community driven news and information content. 
> So, 
> I needed to get it set up as quickly as possible to keep the powers that be
> involved and interested. 
> 1. Any suggestions on how to set it up would be greatly appreciated. 
> 2. Here is  the immediate head scratcher and situation. 
> I am working with taxonomies. 
> I have set up a General Category and a category for each community. 
> Example content: 
> 1. In the General Primary Catagory I have 
> general news, business headlines, profiles, classifieds, comics. 
> 2. For the purposes of testing, 
> For community categories: 
> I have 
> A. New York City 
> Issue 1 beginning 06-05-2005 
> issue 2 beginning 06-06-2005 
> issue 3 beginning 06-04-2005 
>   
> B. Washington DC 
>  
> Issue 1 beginning 06-05-2005 
> issue 2 beginning 06-06-2005 
> issue 3 beginning 06-04-2005 
>   
> C. LA 
>  
> Issue 1 beginning 06-05-2005 
> issue 2 beginning 06-06-2005 
> issue 3 beginning 06-04-2005 
>   
> D. San Francisco 
>  
> Issue 1 beginning 06-05-2005 
> issue 2 beginning 06-06-2005 
> issue 3 beginning 06-04-2005 
>   
> Now, I want to publish content in the gernal  categories and then they will
> be related to the relevant community and issue date.Each time a new issue 
> comes out, The editor for the community simply ads another term which a is
> the new issue for the content to be tracked in.  A new issue would be 
> issue 4 beginning 06-06-2005 
>   
> It seems that it would works very well to allow people to search by topic or
> by community. 
> The problem is, in the community category,  the stories are organized in the
> order submitted not by the general category topics. 
> In other words, 
> General news, profiles, and other topics are all mixed up depending on when
> submitted.  This doesn't make for a very organized publication in the
> Community categories. 
> How can I do this? 
> Is this a good approach? 
> Is it better to have a different site for each community? 
> I don't want to have to build all the topics repeatedly for each community
> and we want to quickly and easily ad  communities. 
>   
> Regards 
>   
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