Re: [Blosxom-users] adding droplists to wikieditish?

[Axel B. <ab...@de...>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:45:57AM +0000, Peter Good wrote:
> We want to label each blog entry to multiple categories.

You basically have two possibilities here:

* Tags inside the article, e.g. with the tagging plugin
  (http://noone.org/blosxom/tagging and
  http://blosxom.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/blosxom/blosxom2-plugins/xtaran/)

  There's also rewrite of the tagging plugin with caching by Gavin
  Carr (http://www.openfusion.net/blosxom/tags and
  http://blosxom.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/blosxom/blosxom2-plugins/gavinc/)

* Directory based categories with symbolic links of the article to
  other categories. Which is quite hack and needs a small plugin to
  not show them twice: http://noone.org/blosxom/multcat -- It's more
  or less the predecessor of the tagging plugin. :-)

> As you point out, the sub-folder assigns each blog entry to one (but
> only one afaik) category.

Yeah, without symlinks there's no other chance for directory based tags.

> I thought droplists would be convenient (and avoid misspelling of
> category names).

A very good idea.

What I can offer is helping to make the tagging plugin working
together with the wikieditish plugin.

I though have never used the wikieditish plugin, so I have currently
no idea of that plugin.

> e.g. we have blog sub-folders for reviews of scientific papers.  We want
> to label each paper with a set of keywords (categories) to assist
> searches.  e.g. so it's easy to find all paper reviews relating to 'El
> Nino', or all reviews relating to 'rainfall' within the 'tropics'.

Cool, can you tell me (or us) when that blog is online? :-)

		Regards, Axel
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