u/dane_websites

Hi everyone. I've updated Daggerheart.org with the new content from Hope & Fear! (at least, the things that I'm allowed to from the SRD). It includes:

• Advantage & disadvantage info
• 1 domains (Dread)
• 4 classes (Assassin, Brawler, Warlock, and Witch)
• 8 subclasses
• 6 transformations (Demigod, Ghost, Reanimated, Shapeshifter, Vampire, and Werewolf)
• 130+ adversaries
• 28 environments
• 6 communities (Duneborne, Hearthborne, Frostborne, Warborne, Freeborne, and Reborne)
• 6 ancestries (Skykin, Tidekin, Earthkin, Emberkin, Gnome, and Aetheris)
• 100+ equipment & loot (weapons, armor, items, consumables)

I realise this is all a bit late, but I don't often get the time to work on it, and I wanted to do it properly 😄

I've been making Drupal sites for about 12 years, so it's rare that I get stumped when trying to figure out a good solution to a problem, but this one is tricky...

Okay so this is quite a big site (approx. 5000 nodes), with like 10 taxonomy vocabularies. One of them is Tags, with like 2000 tags.

And for almost all of those vocabs, the standard Taxonomy Term view (that appears on route /taxonomy/term/%) that appears on their term pages is just fine.

But for one of the vocabs - called Organisations - I need to use a different view. This view needs to have different fields and filters, and a different treatment for the Title override.

My first thought was to use a unique alias pattern (from Pathauto) to show those term pages at different URLs (e.g. /organisations/*), and then make the new view and make it show on the same route. However that doesn't matter, because the Taxonomy Term view shows on the route /taxonomy/term/%, so it applies to the Organisations pages no matter what I make their URLs / aliases.

And that Taxonomy Term view still applies even if I add a filter that excludes the Organisations taxonomy. In other words, the filter only reduces the results, but it doesn't affect whether the view is applied to that page or not.

Then I though perhaps I could make new pages for each organisation, then place block views on those pages to simulate the term fields and the grid of tagged content, similar to the other term pages. But this doesn't really work, because for those block views, they have to get their "contextual filter" value of the term ID from somewhere. The Taxonomy Term view just gets it from the URL, but with these new pages, the term IDs wouldn't be in their URLs (or I could put the ID in the URL, but that would look bad).

Do you have ideas on how to solve this in a practical way?

Drupal deserves to be way more popular than it is, given how much better it is for making sites than most other software out there. Most of the time when I mention it to clients (or random people I'm chatting to), they've never heard of it, and those that have tend to think it's difficult to use - which I think is kind of incorrect.

So I've decided to start making video shorts, and I'm starting with making them for people who are curious about Drupal, or haven't heard of it but who might benefit from using it over the other site building options.

If you were brand new to it, would this video help you get started with Drupal? And if I make the next few videos as intros to features (like how to get started making Views), is there anything I should do differently?