Made to Order Software Corporation - VTN

MO Glossary Anchor Support Improvements

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:52:31 +0000

We are glad to let you know that we just made an update to the MO Glossary module, a module extension for Drupal 6.x.

This update brings better support to anchors by offering you five different anchor classes and five different filters (i.e. you can change the look and feel of each anchor based on some criteria that fits your website and group your glossary terms in five different taxonomies!) Also, the anchor can be made to point to one of three different destinations:

The Drupal Core Term Page;
This is the default for an anchor
The Taxonomy VTN Term Page;
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Using the Taxonomy VTN View feature

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:52:40 +0000

One of the options to link terms in a vocabulary to their view is:

taxonomy_view/voc-xxx/term-xxx

This option sends you to that path, exactly (where voc-xxx and term-xxx are numbers representing the vocabulary identifier and term identifier respectively.)

Parent/Child with Taxonomy VTN

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:34:09 +0000

Terms in a taxonomy can be organized as children of other terms. This generates a parent/child organization. For instance, you can have a term Fruit and mark Apple and Peach as children of Fruit.

The parent/child relationship can be used when you organize your Taxonomy VTN to shorten each page of your dictionary. The idea is simple: whenever you enter the top dictionary (taxonomy) page, you only get a list of the root terms (terms that are not children of other terms.) That list gives you access to the children terms and/or nodes of the parent term.

There are three flags you can use to

Creating Groups with Taxonomy VTN

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:58:03 +0000

Taxonomy VTN adds many fields in your taxonomy forms. When editing your taxonomy, one field is called Taxonomy VTN Group. This field is used to group different vocabularies (i.e. taxonomies) together in a group.

The field accepts one or more group names. The names are case insensitive and are separated by commas. For instance, you could have three names such as: Kitchen, Utensils, Stainless Steel. Then another vocabulary could mention Kitchen and yet another Utensils, Wood.

The groups change the display in the Taxonomy VTN root page. A specific group can also be accessed using the URL:

One or two of the taxonomy columns are too wide

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:32:27 +0000

It happens that a column in your main display look too wide. Say you use three columns, one may be real large and two are the normal size (1/3^rd of the screen.)

In general this happens because you have a URL in one of your description. (If the URL is in the title, I strongly advice that you move it to the description.) Then the description shows up as wide as that URL. Long URLs will have a real bad effect making the column much wider.

There are two ways to solve the problem:

Create a tiny URL, although tiny URLs may still be too big, it may help
Change the settings of the ...

Problems with Taxonomy VTN and their solution

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:11:41 +0000

The following are different problems you may encounter whenever you work with Taxonomy VTN. Those problems usually have a work around and the following pages tell you about the solutions available to you.

Taxonomy VTN (The Module —)

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:08:13 +0000

The Taxonomy VTN module for Drupal is used to display your taxonomies (also called vocabularies) in a dictionary type of a way.

By changing the CSS to your taste, you will really make it match your website look and feel.

The module is very flexible with a very large number of options as described in the following pages.

If you have any question feel free to post a comment on any one of those pages.

MO Insert Taxonomy VTN for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:57:07 +0000

$15.00

MO Insert Taxonomy VTN is a small module used to insert any Taxonomy VTN display in any node or block. The module offers a filter that offers support for the [taxonomy_vtn ...] tag.

The advantage is to be able to add information before and after the taxonomy listing, or to show just and only a small display using the parent/child relationship available in the module.

$15.00

MO Poll for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:50:05 +0000

$15.00

MO Poll is a small module used in place of the Most recent poll block of the core. It extends the capabilities of the default poll block by selecting the most recent poll in link with your current page using the terms selected on your page and your polls.

The MO Poll module searches all the polls that have terms in common with the page being displayed. It works for nodes and taxonomy term pages. If no poll is found to correspond to the page or term being displayed, then a default action is taken: display the latest still active poll, display a randomly chosen poll or one of the latest polls defined as any one poll with no terms in common.

$15.00

MO Glossary for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:53:02 +0000

$35.00

MO Glossary is a Drupal filter that highlights terms in your nodes. The terms can be any word, although they are expected to be abbreviations or unfamiliar words. The words are taken from a vocabulary (MO Glossary vocabulary by default.) The vocabulary terms have several additional fields one of which is named Abbreviation definition. That field is used as the title attribute of the abbreviation tag.

$35.00