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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://i29.tinypic.com/9bazyf.png">http://i29.tinypic.com/9bazyf.png</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Again, I really appreciate any input on this from
anyone, if only to point me in the right direction.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=metzlerd@evergreen.edu href="mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu">Metzler,
David</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=support@drupal.org
href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:42
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [support] Is this achievable
using drupal alone?</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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 <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place> 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.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dave
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Neil:
esl-lounge.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B>
Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> support@drupal.org<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [support] Is this achievable
using drupal alone?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For example, a member creates a
new X content type (this is the big question) and puts the title <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place> 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.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Look here at a screenshot mock-up
I've made to give some idea of what I'm talking
about.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://i31.tinypic.com/2lo0qkw.png">http://i31.tinypic.com/2lo0qkw.png</A></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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
"<st1:City w:st="on">Dallas</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>" and seamlessly switch (using an auto-complete
text box perhaps) to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Houston</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></st1:place> or to any of 10,000 other towns? Would
$arg help me there??</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks in advance for any guidance
you can offer.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Neil</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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