Hi This is a long time since,

digcat — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:03:25 +0000

This is a long time since, but check this out: http://drupal.org/node/1435330

Here is the site: http://www.webnetwork.com.au

Hi ghaugen, I'm sorry I

nigelfinch — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:03:44 +0000

Hi ghaugen, I'm sorry I haven't seen this sooner!

Panels was updated soon after I posed my question, and the changes in the new version are sweeping. 'Variants' can now be added to task handlers, making them significantly more versatile. Unfortunately I would guess this probably breaks the code Jeeves Bond generated. I'll investigate this evening and get back to you.

Victor, you've deleted your question, but here's an answer anyway. Business directories are very easily pulled off in Drupal - and they can take any shape or format and follow any logic you desire. Development can also be tremendously fast - but there are many blind alleys that can cost tremendous amounts of time and frustration. A guide to making a business directory in drupal would need to focus almost as much on courses to avoid as courses to follow. When I have more time, I'll list a few of these wild geese you mustn't chase.

I've followed this group for

victor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:03:00 +0000

I've followed this group for awhile, because I have created a lot of business directories outside of Drupal, and have wondered if it could be done easier and quicker within Drupal and it's vast amount of contrib modules. Well, I think it can, now that I do 90% of website development work in Drupal.

Hi and thanks for this info

ghaugen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:09:58 +0000

Hi and thanks for this info on setting up a business directory. Could you please give instructions on how to import panel_taxonomy_view as a task handler - I've been trying to find out where for the last hour without much luck Tried latest recommended versions as well as dev versions of panels/views/ctools.

Many thanks in advance...

I mistakenly tried importing

JeevesBond — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:45:55 +0000

I mistakenly tried importing panel_taxonomy_view as a custom panel rather than a task handler - and could have wailed until I realised my mistake.

Wow, I never would have guessed the import routines were in different places in the interface. That's a nasty problem.

One question, how did you generate the arguments in the 'summary of contexts'? Argument 1 in particular is quite busy - but clicking on 'add context' there doesn't seem to be the options to generate that amount of detail. Does it pull in data from the view?

I didn't! Panels automatically did that stuff because it realised we were overriding the taxonomy term page.

Glad it fixed the problem for you.

It works! I mistakenly

nigelfinch — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:07:13 +0000

It works!

I mistakenly tried importing panel_taxonomy_view as a custom panel rather than a task handler - and could have wailed until I realised my mistake.

One question, how did you generate the arguments in the 'summary of contexts'? Argument 1 in particular is quite busy - but clicking on 'add context' there doesn't seem to be the options to generate that amount of detail. Does it pull in data from the view?

Thank you so much for settling this question for me. You're the man.

Well, let's hope so! There

JeevesBond — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:22:49 +0000

Well, let's hope so! There may well be something about how you've got your site set up that I'm not taking into account... Difficult to predict.

Thanks so much Jeeves - I

nigelfinch — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:46:09 +0000

Thanks so much Jeeves - I really appreciate the trouble you've taken. I'll test it out when I'm in front of my production machine tomorrow morning and let you know how I get on. If it worked for you I'm optimistic. Cheers!

Doesn't look like you're

JeevesBond — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:26:31 +0000

Doesn't look like you're having much luck, generally if no-one answers your questions it means they don't have the answers.

It's possible to make Panels override system default pages, use Panels 3 and select the 'Or customize a system page...' option at the bottom of the admin page. I'd do it by overriding 'Taxonomy term view', although Panels isn't going to help if your underlying View isn't working.

This might make you sick, but I just got it to work on Drupal 6 with Panels 3 and Views 2. Although Panels 3 seems little buggy in places, once you get something working it seems to stay that way.

Try importing nodes_by_tax.txt and taxonomy_terms.txt into Views and panel_taxonomy_view.txt into Panels to see what I did (note: it's very rough).

Once you've imported those, go to example.com/taxonomy/term/1 and the Panel will take over. Note: you could make that URL your site's home page, to make things easy.

It is of course possible that you've been there and tried what I just did, in which case let me know exactly what happens -- and roughly why, if you can.