[support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?

Sat Mar 15 22:40:42 UTC 2008

Sander,

Thanks. I have a couple of questions relating to your idea:

1. would your solution allow for each city's InfoBox as shown in my page 
mockup image? How would this info be entered? As this info would be unique 
to each city, I thought the only way of doing it would be to have the city 
page itself as a content type (or "group", which is a content type anyway, I 
suppose) and use CCK fields to get that info into each city's page. How 
would Views allow me to do it?

2. How would I have a tight policy of tags across the different content 
types to ensure all dallas content did indeed end up in the right View? 
Would I have to set up a "Location" vocabulary (with 100,000 potential 
terms??) and not allow free tagging or multiple tagging. I'm just trying to 
get my head around a few of the more mundane queries running through my 
head.

Finally, would you not suggest doing this via OG as I mentioned in an 
earlier mail?

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sander-martijn" <lists at severeddreams.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?

Check out views arguments.  With this you could have a cities view that
lists all the cities out, and cities/dallas to show dallas tx with it's
own header and listings etc, or a lot of things like that.  Also take a
look at some of the other views modules, like the views bonus pack.

.sander

Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
> Thanks for the responses so far...this has certainly kept my brain busy
> for the last couple of days and there are still a lot of uncertainties
> in my mind. I'm not sure I understand how I would use Views to present
> each "page" for each city with the tagged entries underneath. As I
> understand Views, I could present a list (table, full nodes or teasers)
> with, for example, all content tagged with "Dallas, TX", but how would I
> alter what comes at the top of each page (using, presumably the
> page/header text box)? I would ideally like to present some type of Info
> box at the top of each city's page (founded, population, long/lat,
> country/state, etc). I wouldn't be able to do this with views, would I?
> This is also why I was toying with the idea of just having a group for
> each city.
>
> Using CCK, I could have member enter all the Info Box fields when they
> create each new one. Then, using my exisiting node-group.tpl.php, the
> group page could be laid out with the info box at the top of the page,
> the mission statement, etc, to one side and all the relevant content
> (forum posts, blog entries, images, pagers, etc) showing below. So I
> might have something like this:
>
> http://i29.tinypic.com/9bazyf.png
>
> Does this sound workable? What problems are there in having potentially
> 10,000 groups? Or 100,000? How would I get them all to link together (as
> the [category:Texas] function would allow me to do in MediaWiki, for
> example.)? Is there any way I could use a special CCK field to introduce
> the idea of hierarchy (United States >> Texas >> Dallas >> Plano) into
> the group content type? Or would I need to get busy with a Location
> taxonomy and tag each new group as it's created??
>
> Again, I really appreciate any input on this from anyone, if only to
> point me in the right direction.
>
> Neil
>
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Metzler, David <mailto:metzlerd at evergreen.edu>
>     *To:* support at drupal.org <mailto:support at drupal.org>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:42 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?
>
>     If it were mine, I’d make the cities be required taxonomy terms for
>     the content type.  Then people create individual entries and tag
>     them as Dallas, Texas or Clairborne or whatever.  Use views with a
>     term as an argument to pull lists of content for a city.  People can
>     comment or make their own entries for the city.
>
>
>
>     Dave
>
>
>
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>     *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org
>     [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Neil: 
> esl-lounge.com
>     *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM
>     *To:* support at drupal.org
>     *Subject:* [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?
>
>
>
>     I have quite a specific content-type requirement for my site and
>     have been pulling my hair out thinking about how I could achieve it
>     with drupal - so I turn to this support list, if not for a solution,
>     then for at least a pointer or two to push me nearer an answer.
>
>
>
>     I have a site where I want members to be able to enter information
>     about hundreds or even thousands of cities. It's not relevant
>     exactly what type of information they are writing.
>
>
>
>     For example, a member creates a new X content type (this is the big
>     question) and puts the title Dallas, Texas and writes a paragraph or
>     two about it. Other members can rate that entry or attach comments
>     to it...or, very importantly, add their own entry, which would have
>     equal weight to the first entry. Ultimately, tags could be attached
>     to each entry to allow some type of sorting.
>
>
>
>     Look here at a screenshot mock-up I've made to give some idea of
>     what I'm talking about.
>
>
>
>     http://i31.tinypic.com/2lo0qkw.png
>
>
>
>     The original idea called for a wiki where each city would be a wiki
>     page, but we're now veering more towards having seperate entries
>     (not editable by other users) by each member, to which comments can
>     be added. So these are almost nodes within nodes. We considered some
>     type of views/og solution but is it feasible to have 10,000 views or
>     groups? Would views allow me to gather together, dynamically, all
>     "entries" on "Dallas, Texas" and seamlessly switch (using an
>     auto-complete text box perhaps) to Houston, Texas or to any of
>     10,000 other towns? Would $arg help me there??
>
>
>
>     Is there anything that already exists on drupal that can help me
>     towards a solution? I've already thought about book pages, forum
>     pages, groups for each city and a few other possibilities besides,
>     but nothing seems to fit. There could well be some useful modules
>     out there I am unaware of.
>
>
>
>     Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer.
>
>
>
>     Neil
>
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