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cneumann's picture

I am still working on my NS install and things are going well. Still have not figured out the pagination issue, but that aside, I am working with some test content and the one thing that I noticed is that when you create a contributor, I expected that when I assigned this contributor to the story I expected the following actions:
1) When you click on the contributor's name, I would have expected the bio and picture come up. There is no linking, which I found odd since Prose Point was able to do that.
2) I would have also liked a list of article to appear below the bio.

I would not want to create a new taxonomy for each user, that would become way too cumbersome. I also created a "writer" user to see if that works, but nope. I also looked in the NS Contributor setup and didn't see anything in there to indicate that I needed to "flip a switch" somewhere to make it work.

What did I miss? Was this designed to work in this way?

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We did not design a landing

fabsor's picture

We did not design a landing page for contributors, and that's why they are not linked to their node pages. It is a really good idea though, and we might be able to add something like this in the NodeStream 2 release.

You could add support for this yourself pretty easily by changing the contributor view, ns_article_byline under admin/build/views, and change the title field to link to it's node. That will make all bylines link to their nodes.

The next step would be to add a page in page manager. Go to admin/build/pages/edit/node_view, and add a new variant. Add a selection rule that makes the variant active for contributor node types, and you should be able to put whatever you want to have on the contributor node page.

//Fabian Sörqvist

I will try your suggestion

cneumann's picture

I will try your suggestion and get back to you. Thanks,

Success!

cneumann's picture

That worked! Quick and simple. As a suggestion, that might be something to add in the documentation. Also as a suggestion, it would be a help to also add a link to show "stories from this contributors" link as well.

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