Using taxonomy-dependent modules
This is a list of contributed Drupal modules (and some core modules) that have been thoroughly tested to work with the categoryi module, when using the bundled taxonomy wrapperi. This list is maintained constantly, and is kept as up-to-date as possible at all times.
Please contact me if you have any new information for this page, whether it be an entry for a module that is not currently listed, or an update for a module that is already listed.
Modules that work with category
- Devel
- 4.7 version of the
generate-taxonomy.phpscript works with category. - Forum
- 4.7 version works with category.
- Glossary
- 4.7 version works with category.
Note: you must enter the definition for each glossary term in the category's 'description' field, rather than in its 'body' field. Otherwise, glossary.module ignores the term and displays nothing. - Image
- 4.7 version works with category.
- Img_assist
- 4.7 version works with category.
- Organic Groups
- 4.7 version works with category.
- Simplenews
- 4.7 version works with category.
- Taxonomy access control
- 4.7 version partly works with category (see this announcement for more details).
- Taxonomy browser
- 4.7 version works with category.
Modules that are incompatible with category
- Taxonomy_menu
- It is possible to use this module with category, but it is highly recommended that you use category_menu instead. Category_menu offers a number of advantages over taxonomy_menu, including the creation of real and customisable menu items, and the fact that its links point to the actual URLs of categories, rather than to special generated URLs. If you use category_menu with taxonomy_menu, you will get duplicate menu links.
Using forum with category
Here are some detailed instructions for using forum with the categoryi module:
- Install category, the taxonomy wrapperi, and forum.
- Go to your site's administer -> forums page. The first time that you access this page, forum automatically creates a 'Forums' vocabulary (which then automatically triggers the taxonomy wrapper to create a corresponding 'Forums' containeri).
- Go to your site's administer -> categories page, and verify that the 'Forums' container has been created.
- Go back to administer -> forums, and create all of your site's forums and containers on this page, and not on the administer -> categories page (the word containers is used here in the forum module sense, not in the category module sense).
- To create new forum topics, either go to create content -> forum topic, or click the post new topic link from one of your forums.
I just tested this now, with latest HEAD versions of Drupal and Category, and it all works fine for me.
Not quite there yet..
Thanks for the help Jaza, and indeed for the module.
It doesn't seem to be working yet.
For what it's work, I'm using the latest CVS version of Category , with RC3 of Drupal.
I hadn't realised that the Category module and Forum module both have references to Containers, but that they weren't the same thing..
Clicking on admin--Forums doesn't see to generate the containeri I expected to see in Admin--categoryi.
Under admin--settings--category, it does say that the Taxonomy wrapperi module is properly installed, though I did do this manually.
Is there a specific order the modules would have to be installed?
Any other settings I could check?
I'd be happy to set up Forums manually, via Category, if I could get my head around how it could be done, so that they show up under Forums.
All help Appreciated
Regards
Alan
PS If you'd prefer to move this discussion elsewhere, onto Drupal.org, let me know. Again Thanks
Please see
I already have huge forums to upgrade
Hey there,
I upgraded from taxonomy module to categoryi module on my test site, and I noticed that forum update did not go very well... The categories have been erased from the forum module and I think the path that category module created are not good either...
Anyway, what I need is to simply connect my old forum containeris to the forum module...
I read the nodes referenced on this page, and I came to think that I would have to delete all forum containers and then recreate them by hand in the forum module interface???
What would happen to the messages? would they still be there (yes they would be in the database) but would all threads and messages would automatically still be linked to the right containers and categories????
Actually I tried to delete my forums container and all of it's containers and categories but going then to the forums module home page does not automatically create a forums category for me... for it does not work on my test site....
EDITED: I actually managed to recreate the forums container by using the tips about the database cache and the forum variable, but still, I can't understand how I would be able to simply update my forums to work with category module.
Could you post a step by step tutorial on moving forum from taxo to category module please??? Do you think it is suppose to work out of the box and I missed something while redirecting the paths??
I'm sure I selected to redirect the paths, as all other links to other content types are well redirected and handled by category module, only the forum is not.
Thanks
Hi! I too have huge forum
Hi! I too have huge forum and connot use it with installed taxonomy wrapperi. Anybody can help us?
Forum and Simplenews Problems
Hello,
I'm having extreme difficulty getting any content into my Forums and Newsletters with the Category Module installed.
I'm not that good at this so please don't assume anything. I've tried all of the above to no avail.
I'm using drupal 4.7.2, and tried all the current cvs and 4.7 releases for the modules.
I finally managed to get the categoryi module to work after a couple of days wrestling with it only to find that all content I post into Forums and Simple news goes in, just not into the correct place. I can see my posts from the Tracker interface of Drupal.
Incedently I have no containeris which I can see to import in the Category module ( I think I deleted these trying to get my category system working).
Should I be seeing these as described above.
I've reinstalled all the modules and Wrappers as described above but still no joy.
I bet I'm doing something really stupid.
Any help yopu can give me to understand where I'm going wrong would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards
David
Taxonomy Breadcrumb is not 100% compatible too
Hi,
Taxonomy Breadcrumb is not compatible too as we can't edit Breadcrumb field for Vocabulary (so it means for Containers) :-/
So breadcrumb are not Home > Container title > Category title but Home > Category title
Any idea to fix this issue ?
Glossary Menu Not Showing Glossary
Hi,
Glossary seems to be largely compatible in 4.7.2. Searches and rollover defs work fine. But I have this problem:
The Glossary menu does not display my glossary. It seems to want to display a list of glossaries under the header, "Glossary" but there is nothing listed. There is also a header "Operations" which has "view' and "edit" options which both lead nowhere.
Anyone have any ideas. I am currently pulling my definitions from a number of different Containers Do I need to create a specific Container called "Glossary"? If so, wouldn't this confuse the existing Glossary menu item?
Problem Sorted
Sorted this out. Although you are supposed to be able to cull definitions from multiple Vocabularies (Containers), doing this apparently breaks the glossary menu. Don't know if this is a Glossary problem or a Category Module incompatibility.
If you create all your definition categories in a single containeri, everything works fine :-)
Troubleshooting taxonomy wrapper
In Jaza's opinion, taxonomy wrapperi is a bit dodgy:-)
Well, it seems to work decently enough, but I have always encountered trouble when I enabled taxonomy dependent modules (image_gallery, simplenews etc) *before* enabling the taxonomy wrapper module. The relevant containeris (the vocabularies created by the taxonomy based modules) never get created properly or at all when the wrapper module is enabled *after* enabling the taxonomy based modules.
The easiest way to solve this problem is to disable the taxonomy wrapper module at ../admin/settings/categoryi/, save the changes and then enable the wrapper module once again and save the changes. Now, click on the links generated by the taxonomy dependent modules and the containers (vocabularies) will be properly created. If you had disabled those taxonomy based modules, enable them again and click on the links and the containers will be created.
Alas, I found this simple solution after destroying, rebuilding several sites and mucking around with the system table and the variable table. Hope this helps someone.
forums and category_menu
Greetings.
I have the catagory module set up on my test site, and everything seems to be working great, except for one oddity.
I have "Nice Menus" set up to replace the normal "Primary Links", and categoryi_menu enabled.
Under "Category" settings, I have "Menu Item Settings" for "Default Menu" set to "Primary Links".
I go to "administer -> category", and add a containeri at the root level, it will show up in the "Primary Links" menu at the top level. If I add child containers or categories to the initial container, they all show up in the menu as they should.
The problem is with the forums. I would like category_menu to list forum categories just like normal categories. I can coax category_menu into listing the base "Forums" container. I then go to "administer -> forums" and "add container" or "add forum", and select the parenti "", which should, given the context, mean the root "Forums" container. Instead of the new container or forum being listed in the menu under "Forums", it is listed at the root level of "Primary Links". I asume that this is because the parent root is being interpreted as meaning the category root rather than the forum root.
I can manually move the menu items, but I'm if I am to set this up for anyone else, I will want the items to be auto-generated in the right place. Has anyone else run into this problem?
Thanks!
Not working on Drupal 5
I did some testing and posted what I discovered to this page:
http://drupal.org/node/59728#comment-182842
Obviously categoryi.module, drupal 5 and taxonomy-dependent modules are not yet compatible to work as they should. I hope that guys will solve this problem soon. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Category Module And Forums
Is there any special consideration needed to get the Category Module functioning with Forums?
I am in a good position, starting with a fresh site..
I am using Drupal RC3, no taxonomy information defined.
I installed Category from CVS [17/11/06].
I manually installed the taxonomy wrapperi module.
All fine so far.
I go for Forums, 'no Forums Defined'. Fair enough.
I go to Administer- Forums. 'No existing Containers or Forums'
Here the problems begin.
I try to add a containeri here.. doesn't show up under Administer-Forums.
Same problem with adding a Forum.
I can't see a way to structure Forums from within Administer-Category.
Am I going about this in the correct fashion?
Incidentally,
I tried to go back a step, Disabled Category Module, and went back to the original Taxonomy module, and then the Containers and Forums I had been creating [but didn't appear originally] showed up.
Regards
Alan
PS Is Drupal.org using the Category Module to show links between forum topics?