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Ability to link glossary terms to specific Section - 2010/10/15 08:49 I used Glossary in the very early days and while it was a good product it never really reached its capacity to be GREAT !

I remember that it was possible to put terms in the glossary and allocate a "category", for example "Building industry terms". However, no use was ever made of this.

What would make Glossary great is the ability to have the bot/plugin display only those terms relevant to the website section or category the reader was looking at. So if they were on an industry website and in the "building industry" section/category, only those terms in Glossary's "building industry" category would be displayed in that suite of pages.

This would prevent similar terms from displaying incorrectly and would pre-filter the terms that the bot/plugin has to scan for.

In the end, there would be a single glossary for the entire website that had customised "sub-glossaries" for the subject specific areas.

Our site has a great deal of scientific content and many terms that mean one thing in one area of science and something entirely different in another - hence my request.

Any others have a need for this ????

Thanks for your hard work so far, Martin.

Cheers, David
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Re:Ability to link glossary terms to specific Section - 2010/10/26 15:09 I can see the problem. It is less easy to come up with solutions. A major stumbling block is the absence of any useful standards in the Joomla world and an apparent hostility to creating any.

Historically, a lot of applications used "categories" but none that I'm aware of ever linked this in any way with use of categories by the content component. Apps that used categories had their own categories, distinct from content.

Linking to sections would make sense for some people, but again the lack of standards means that it is not clear whether "content" plugins work exclusively on content, or on a variety of applications. There are numerous requests for applications to invoke "content" plugins.

Once this is done, rules that might make sense in relation to "content" start to break down.

Any ideas?
Martin Brampton aka Counterpoint
http://aliro.org
http://black-sheep-research.com
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