Want the ability to create multiple outlines/maps

Created on 11 December 2010, over 14 years ago
Updated 25 March 2025, 13 days ago

As things are now in the d.o Handbook, each page can be a member of exactly one Book outline.

As we discussed at the Vancouver docs meeting 2010, we would eventually like to have the ability to make different maps/outlines containing the same content arranged in different ways, because sometimes the same topic belongs in multiple places.

There may be some existing modules that we could use to achieve this:

Nodequeue -- maybe -- is it hierarchical/outline organized, and can one node be in multiple queues?

Kristoff VanTomme (whose name I may have misspelled) has created some mapping software for Drupal that he demonstrated in a recent Dojo presentation, which allows you to drag and drop nodes into an outline/map.

Maybe other projects exist as well?

The next task would be to try out some of the existing things, and see what they can do. Eventually we would want to install whatever the tool is (hopefully we won't have to build it), and import the existing Books on d.o into this tool as the initial maps, and then provide a way for others to make and share different types of maps (I'm just brainstorming here):
- handbooks
- tutorials (these might be linear rather than hierarchical, as in "study these pages in this order to learn about this")
- mini-handbooks
- Lists a la Amazon
- etc.

✨ Feature request
Status

Closed: outdated

Component

Docs infrastructure

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States jhodgdon Spokane, WA, USA

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  • πŸ‡³πŸ‡ΏNew Zealand quietone

    As far as I can tell this is about the book style documentation which is being migrated. I think, then, that this is no longer needed. I am sure someone will re-open if I am wrong.

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