Glossary
Version
2.8 (last update on Aug 17, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
38
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
5 March 2006
The current version includes use of the "Markdown" editing scheme for styling glossary definitions; soundex option in searching; numeric items grouped together; flexible configuration options.
Thank you very much for that tool!!!
It installs easily and causes no problems!!!
Great job!!!!
It installs easily and causes no problems!!!
Great job!!!!
How good is this extension?? It is so easy to use and the support is quick! I really needed this product for the tooltip plugin and it took me a while to work out where it was to download but I got a response from the forum within the same day - fantastic!
Thank you for this nifty add-on - it's great.
Thank you for this nifty add-on - it's great.
I used this extension on my site until recently - and it's true that it does what it says, and very well too.
However, there is just one feature that is missing - the ability to assign categories of Glossary Terms, to specific sections/categories.
We have a site that carries both scientific and non-scientific content and, sometimes, terms that refer to specific science processes have the same name as common terms and therefore there can be a degree of confusing and misinformation. Consequently, I have had to unpublish the bot.
The component allows the grouping of terms into categories, but then seems to make no use of this feature. The ability to assign these categories intelligently across a website, would make this component a "must-have".
Would love to see this Martin.
Cheers, David
However, there is just one feature that is missing - the ability to assign categories of Glossary Terms, to specific sections/categories.
We have a site that carries both scientific and non-scientific content and, sometimes, terms that refer to specific science processes have the same name as common terms and therefore there can be a degree of confusing and misinformation. Consequently, I have had to unpublish the bot.
The component allows the grouping of terms into categories, but then seems to make no use of this feature. The ability to assign these categories intelligently across a website, would make this component a "must-have".
Would love to see this Martin.
Cheers, David
Owner's reply
Version 2.7 is now available as a release candidate, soon to be a full release. You can write {glossid:3,5} in your content now to tell Glossary's content plugin that you want the article to be marked up with only the glossaries that have ID 3 or 5.
This is an awesome component that has almost everything I need. I don't have a need for multiple glossaries, but I like having the option.
I was going to say that the output is hard to read, but this has been fixed in the latest version.
I still would like more control over the appearance of the output, but its not a turn off that I can't control it.
The only downside I currently have is it doesn't work with shSEF404.
Make it compatible and its perfect.
I was going to say that the output is hard to read, but this has been fixed in the latest version.
I still would like more control over the appearance of the output, but its not a turn off that I can't control it.
The only downside I currently have is it doesn't work with shSEF404.
Make it compatible and its perfect.
Thanks, excellent bot, but i can't built my glossary with à é ï ö ù, etc...
Have you a solution for this problem ?
I am french and my site is here : geephage.org
Thanks.
bacter
Have you a solution for this problem ?
I am french and my site is here : geephage.org
Thanks.
bacter
Owner's reply
Glossary works correctly with accents, this can be seen at http://j15.joomlaguru.net. Any remaining problems are to do with the configuration of the database for the site.
Super, easy and quick.
Exactly what we wanted.
We only have three words in the glossary for the moment. :p
It was perfect.
Thanks once more.
Exactly what we wanted.
We only have three words in the glossary for the moment. :p
It was perfect.
Thanks once more.
I was primarily interested in the bot part of this addon. Glossary is simple to use. Install the component, then install the bot. Add your terms into the component and viola' you have definitions on mouseover! Of course you can configure it to act and look very different from default. I recommend it.
*Con - however your term is defined in the component is how it will appear on the content. Ex: I had the term "roundworm" defined as a term in the component. But in my content page it was the first word in the sentence. It should have appeared as "Roundworm" instead it took the bot term set and uncapitalized it.
*Con - however your term is defined in the component is how it will appear on the content. Ex: I had the term "roundworm" defined as a term in the component. But in my content page it was the first word in the sentence. It should have appeared as "Roundworm" instead it took the bot term set and uncapitalized it.
Works great for me, as advertised. I love having the popup terms in the text body, with configurable options such as matching whole words and only showing the definition the first time the term is used in an article.
It's a good start but I found there to be a few problems, the major 1 is with the template - the component distorted it.
Secondly we have assigned menus to pages so when a term was clicked on in the glossary there was no menu assigned and there is no ability to assign the menu in this manner unless each individual item has a menu item created for it - it would be nice if the links could be optionally removed from the output within the glossary component so a visitor can't click on them and produce a new page, I'm sure this wouldn't be hard to hack but I simply don't have the time.
3rd when I used the categories they were sitting above the component title.
Next, I set the component to display all by default but nothing was displayed in the component - just a link saying 'All' - when this was clicked on it gave 0 results in a search output where there were actually 27 entries, the only way the terms could be viewed was through creating and clicking on the category.
As I said it's a good start, I would love to use this when the kinks are ironed out of it.
Secondly we have assigned menus to pages so when a term was clicked on in the glossary there was no menu assigned and there is no ability to assign the menu in this manner unless each individual item has a menu item created for it - it would be nice if the links could be optionally removed from the output within the glossary component so a visitor can't click on them and produce a new page, I'm sure this wouldn't be hard to hack but I simply don't have the time.
3rd when I used the categories they were sitting above the component title.
Next, I set the component to display all by default but nothing was displayed in the component - just a link saying 'All' - when this was clicked on it gave 0 results in a search output where there were actually 27 entries, the only way the terms could be viewed was through creating and clicking on the category.
As I said it's a good start, I would love to use this when the kinks are ironed out of it.
Can install OK but even with prefs set to "Public" the Glossary cannot be viewed (displays "You need to Login" message)
Also once an definition has been added its not possible to edit it (just shows blank 'new item' screen instead of existing content to be edited).
No documentation.
Looks good but support/troubleshooting etc non-existent. This is a shame as it looks good on the demo site.
Also once an definition has been added its not possible to edit it (just shows blank 'new item' screen instead of existing content to be edited).
No documentation.
Looks good but support/troubleshooting etc non-existent. This is a shame as it looks good on the demo site.
This component installs simple and clean. Setup is pretty straight forward in the backend. I had my first definitions created within 5 minutes.
I could not get this to work in Joomla 1.0.8 (Stable). Poor documentation. Also a suggestion, please clearly label downloads as "com_xx", "mod_xx", etc. this would be very helpful. Also, for a newbie it is confusing when the downloads refer to Mambo only and makes new users question if this really is a Joomla extension. Again, I could not get this one to work.
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