[development] Book to Book-Pages... Many to many relationship??

[Peter Wolanin]

Dan,

This is a non-trivial undertaking because you need to be able to
maintain your context (i.e. which book are you currently browsing, so
that you know which page is the next/previous, etc.)

some related links:

An existing contrib module:
http://drupal.org/project/relativity
This implements more general tree structures and could provide useful
code and ideas.

Discussions of a "relationship API" on g.d.o:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/1966
http://groups.drupal.org/node/1323

-Peter

On 6/8/07, Daniel Hilton <dunghopper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's my situation:
>
> I'm in the process of importing dozens of paper (Word document) manuals into
> my Drupal intranet site as books.
>
> One of the main goals of this project is to reduce redundancy... in the
> word-document / file share set up, each manual is duplicated five times,
> once for each region in which my company operates.
> Some of the documents are identical across all regions, yet we still
> maintain 5 copies of the document.  (Yikes!)  Others are unique to a region
> (thus the separate copies of the manuals).
>
> This brings us to my dilema:  It seems that the book module won't allow the
> same node to be placed in multiple books, meaning my goal of redundancy
> reduction is out the window!
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions about how to accomplish the functionality
> I'm looking for (adding a single node to multiple books)?
>
> I'm sure I could hack the book module to make it work, but I've really been
> trying not to tamper with core modules.
>
> Has there been any discussion on this topic before?  Does anyone wish to
> discuss the possibility of adding this to the book module officially?
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Dan
>