Posted by doulos12 on February 24, 2011 at 6:57pm
I already have my sermons on my Drupal site and have, to this point, preached mainly on the lectionary.
I'd like to create a simple way to display sermon series together, with a graphic and description at the top of the page, then the sermons in order below it. Some easy way to listen, like a playlist, would be nice, but not necessary.
I was thinking about a panel and a list created by Views, and the more I think about it, the more complicated it gets. Given that I'm going to want multiple series to be accessible and easily create each new series, the easier, the better. My sermon podcast is hosted at an external source, and using Feeds to convert the podcast entries to nodes for the church website.
Any suggestions?
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New content type, plus nodereference field(s)
I've yet to set this up myself, but I've seen it done nicely using a new content type (called 'Sermon Series', for example), that has a cck nodereference field added (configured to allow multiple fields, if desired). There's a MustardSeed Media podcast that might be helpful here: http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode37. Also someone asked the question on Geeks & God here: http://geeksandgod.com/forums/dynamic-website-forums/all-about-drupal/se....
I want to do the same thing,
I want to do the same thing, even to having the audio files hosted outside of drupal.
I've started with defining the content types, one for sermons, and another for the series.
It was recommended to use taxonomy for the series, and I've begun that setup.
I still have to learn and set up the views part yet. Looks like the G&G podcast might
help... have to view it ASAP...
And currently our podcast xml file is hand-edited, but once I get this working I'd definitely
like to get that generated automatically by something in drupal too. There seem to be lots
of modules for that kind of thing, but narrowing down to which to use might be the trick.
I'll be following this thread, and I'll try to post some of my own details once I get them working a bit further.
later,
jeff
Podcast XML - built into views
Views is able to output the XML automatically (create a display with the style set to RSS Feed - then set the Feed Settings to attach it to your page display).
There is an ITunes view module that adds an iTunes RSS Feed style that will add in the iTunes specific stuff to the feed as well.
I'm rebuilding our site and taking advantage of some of these things - lots of cool stuff in there. Here's the page that shows the sermons by series.
(it is also using the media_mover module to automatically move the audio files to Amazon S3)
http://staging.gracecommunity.ws/resources/teaching_library/class