Posted by senpai on March 1, 2007 at 7:22am
I've been trying to find a way to coax a listing of all taxonomy terms for g.d.o groups. Thus far, it has been in vain. Do any of you know how this might be achieved without writing a module, or patching core? The top-10 list at the right side of a group is just not enough info for a group admin to keep things streamlined and organized.
Ideas? Sogg-gestions?
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Might this be a help? http://drupal.org/node/16489
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you want a listing per group or across the whole site? and what do you intend to do with such a list?
I intend to help our dojo tagging become more streamlined
I am only looking to pull a list of group-specific tags. Dojo tags, to be precise. Our wish is to keep our satellite sites at drupaldojo.com and drupaldojo.org as syncronized as possible with g.d.o. In order to accomplish, we need inbound links to g.d.o taxonomy. The problem I'm having is that I can't see what taxo terms are being created inside the dojo group, and thus it becomes hard to create handwritten inbound links.
So can it be done without a huge hassle? I'm certainly not asking for a custom module written just to do this.
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How is this different from the "Group Categories" block?
How is this different from the "Group Categories" block?
Within OG, each group can have a specific taxonomy (or set of taxonomies) associated with it.
For example, when I'm here: http://groups.drupal.org/maintenance -- I see a "Group Categories" block for the Maintenance group which lists all of the group's terms.
When I'm here: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo -- I see a "Group Categories" block which lists all of the dojo terms.
Is this what you're asking, or am I missing something?
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
The Group Categories only shows 10 taxo terms
The Group Categories on drupal-dojo only shows the top 10 taxonomy terms. We have many more categories than that due to free-tagging. I've encountered posts from people who were looking for information on how to set up their own computer to join the next training, but there was no easy way to find the posts tagged with these terms.
I don't want Moshe to change the filter for Group Categories because that might negatively affect all the other groups on the site. I was just looking for a way to link to all the taxo terms for a certain group via a URL. It might not be possible to do unless the terms are already known.
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How is the Group Categories block ordered?
A couple people have asked me about the ordering of the Group Categories block. I looked at it long and hard, and I cannot figure out how it gets it's ordering scheme. It's not alphabetical, nor it it by most number of terms or most popular. How's it sorted??
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Here's an example of what I need
I have a post that is suggesting a lessson topic for the dojo. http://groups.drupal.org/node/3114
This post has been tagged by someone with no knowledge of freetagging, as you can see. When I go to edit the post and re-tag it, I find myself at a loss for direction. Is it supposed to be 'lesson', 'lesson plans', 'lesson ideas', 'class suggestions', 'dojo topics'....
My point being that if I could somehow reference all the current tags, I'd have a much better idea of where to place this post. One of the tags I've just listed is going to be the right one, simply because more people have used it before.
Can it be done, or am I wasting brainpower?
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Thanks for the Categories tab!
I love the Categories tab, for it enables me to peek into the list of terms people are using when free tagging. I do have a slight problem with it, however, in that I cannot change or edit the terms. I get an Access Denied. I kinda need the ability to edit these terms, because they're getting out of control. 'lesson', 'lessons', 'lesson plan', 'lesson plans', 'planning' ? I need to be able to consolidate some of these, or the Top !0 Taxos in that block aren't going to be much use...
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Joel Farris | my 'certified to rock' score
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core problem
this is a core limitation. sitewide editors can do this. i just gave you that role. thanks for pruning ....
Thanks man! I'll begin sharpening then
Thanks man! I'll begin sharpening the gardening shears right away...
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Joel Farris | my 'certified to rock' score
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