Page architecture question

[deltavik]

Hey guys, 

   I discovered PW this weekend and have been playing with it. Loving it so far. I am a Wordpress developer, and PW seems much more natural and organized in comparison.

For my test-drive, I am building a site on a simple use case of building a news website.  A writer will write stories and tag them under "categories" and "tags."  If I were to do this in WP, I would use WP's taxonomy to tag stories in tags and categories. 

To realize this in PW, this is my plan: Create a page for "story" that contains two repeater fields -- one for "tag," and other for "category."  I would like to add description and image to each tag and category. The question is: how can I have fields for tag and category, which themselves are fields?

OR, is there another, better way? Maybe instead of creating fields for tags and categories, I can create pages for tags and categories? And then somehow  link these two pages as "fields" in the story page?

What would you advise?

Ideally, I would like to have a user experience of a typical taxonomy entry for, like this: taxonomy entry on this forum  But I don't think it is possible in PW. 

thanks

Vikram

 

 

[adrian]

Hi @deltavik and welcome to the forums.

Perhaps this module might suit your needs: http://modules.processwire.com/modules/inputfield-chosen-select/

There is another similar one, but it escapes me at the moment.

[fbg13]

You can use the page field type to relate pages and use them as taxonomies/terms.

[deltavik]

Thanks @adrian

The link you suggested is almost what I wanted to do. However, for the module to work, I will need to have the tag and category pages already created. But I want to be able to create new tags while I am creating a page.

 

[deltavik]

I think I might have found something: new page from inputfield

[Robin S]

19 minutes ago, deltavik said:

The link you suggested is almost what I wanted to do. However, for the module to work, I will need to have the tag and category pages already created. But I want to be able to create new tags while I am creating a page.

From the module readme...

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Use TAB to create new Pages with the currently typed name.

And you can also use the core Autocomplete inputfield to add pages on-the-fly providing the conditions on the "Input" tab are met...

Edited August 2, 2016 by Robin S
Added info on Autocomplete inputfield

[deltavik]

Bingo. That hit the spot. However, I had to press enter, not tab, to make it work. I will try it in another browser to check tab vs. enter situation...but in any case, it solves my problem. 

 

thanks

[szabesz]

@deltavik Hi,

In case you are interested, there is a recently "released" Site Profile (by @clsource) which has tags already implemented (though no categories, but they can be added in a similar manner). This is just one example, but a good one:

 

[deltavik]

This looks interesting. I am going to try it. 

thanks,