Topic Map Export for Drupal

Revision as of 13:21, 16 June 2011

Topic Map Export is a configurable exporter for Drupal 7 that generates a topic map out of Drupal content. The development of the exporter is sponsored by Wandora Team. Topic Map Export is distributed under GPL v3 lisence.

Requirements

• A working Drupal 7 installation.
• Drupal extra modules (Included in Wandora source code package in extras folder).

Instructions for installing Drupal can be found here, for testing purposes it is recommended that you put up a local server setup. Heres some good article's on how to setup Drupal on local server.

Usage

Exporting topic map from Drupal

1. First you have enable the Topic Map Export module in the Drupal modules section.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. After you have enabled the module, goto /topic_map/export. Following screen should be displayed.
   
   
   
   
   
   

Importing topic map to Wandora

1. Start Wandora and select from top menu File -> Import -> Topic map import
2. Import dialog should open, from there select Browse
3. Browse for exported topic map and select that file. It should be located in your in here: drupal_installation/sites/defaut/files/topicmap_{timestamp}.xtm
4. After you have selected the exported topic, select Import from the import dialog.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Now your topic map should be imported and you can browse it. You can find the root topic by writing "website" in the Wandora's search field. The root topic should have the same name as you Drupal website.
6. Double click the resulted topic that has the same name as your website and it should open in the topic viewer