Need assistance: taxonomy queue issue with multiple fields

Request Type:

General Assistance

Forums:

Author:

Katie Goodridge

Issue/Request:

Hi Yalesites,

I’ve set up a Taxonomy queue for our staff contact listing; accessed via ‘Search by Department’ sidebar. This successfully allowed staff to show up on their certain department listings (i.e., School of Engineering contact will show only on School of Engineering staff list) and then I am able to manually sort them (highest positions to alpha). However, there are at least five staff member who work under multiple departments (i.e., one staff member is Graduate and Professional Schools and all graduate school listings) and it looks like the queue doesn’t work. Those folks automatically show up at the top of each referenced page regardless of adding them to their designated queue. When I do add them to the queue, they then appear twice on the page. Is there any way to fix this or I can walk someone through this issue?

Thanks,
Katie

Alyssa DeChiaro on January 24, 2018:

Hi Katie,

It looks like you set up a taxonomy nodequeue called Staff Contacts. Can you please explain what you’d like to setup? I can see the categories in the queue, but I can’t tell what it’s doing and it doesn’t look like all of the contacts were added to the queues. There’s one nodequeue set up for the main Key Contacts page for changing the order of the listed staff members. The Key Contact pages are generated by views which are filtered by their category/taxonomy term (School of Art, Annual Giving, etc), and I created the block with the links to each view.

Did you want to add another taxonomy?

Best,

Alyssa

Katie Goodridge on January 24, 2018:

Hi Alyssa,

Thank you for the quick response. I did set up a taxonomy Nodequeue, ‘Staff Contacts’, to enable us to position-sort each person within that category/taxonomy by job title; because our end goal is for each staff listing to have key contacts appear at the top (and then eventually alphabetically).

I’d like to send you a separate email with a live example of a person with multiple categories and issue we are seeing with them.

Thanks,

Katie

Alyssa DeChiaro on January 25, 2018:

Hi Katie,

Thanks for the additional info in your email, I think I have a better understanding of what you were setting up now. I’ll look through and see if I could get it working how you need it to, or see if we could find another way.

Best,

Alyssa

Alyssa DeChiaro on February 14, 2018:

The taxonomy nodequeue was not working as intended, and the issue occurs on many Drupal sites with no real solution. Tried Draggableviews, which provides the functionality, but the list is long. The best option as of now is to create individual nodequeues for the Key Contacts categories that require a specific order.

Closing out this forum ticket as communication has moved to email.