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List:       bricolage-general
Subject:    Re: Story vrs Element, and keywords
From:       David Wheeler <david () kineticode ! com>
Date:       2005-10-27 18:33:58
Message-ID: 31FC7E69-1712-46AB-BAE4-08CD0DD29B78 () kineticode ! com
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On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Dawn Buie wrote:

> I should add that I had also thought of using keywords to create  
> the effect of grouping Article Stories into a Series, since the  
> keyword function is built into each story interface.

You can use categories, too. Or a combination of categories and  
keywords, especially if you have a lot of stories in a category, and  
you want to automate the creation of "related stories".

> How?
>
> I though I would preface a seres:
>
> "Series: The Plight of the Bumble Bee"

Bzzzzzzz! (Bumble Bee sound.)

> And then within each Article Story template I would look for the  
> text pattern "Series:" and find stories that shared the same series  
> title "The Plight of the Bumble Bee", then print out a list of  
> links to those related stories.

Yep, that'd work. But really, this is what categories are for.

> That's kind of efficient, however the person entering the Series  
> title within the Article Story would have to make the title exact,  
> since we don't currently have the kind of search functionality for  
> keywords as we do for linking to categories, or associating  
> contributors.

Why not?

Best,

David

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