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Hello all,

I have a project in which a client would like to keep a glossary of definitions. I plan to implement a page that pulls all the glossary terms in alphabetical order. This should not be a problem. The one thing I would like to do with these glossary terms is give the client the ability to “select” a glossary term while writing a blog article. In other words, I need to provide the client a way to tell EE that these specific terms are in the article, and they need to be anchored with a jQuery pop over giving the full definition.

I am trying to think of ways to tackle this, but I am still a bit inexperienced with EE.

My initial thought was to create a ‘Glossary’ channel, and create entries within that channel. But I could not think of a way for the client to references those entries from within the editor while writing articles.

My next thought, and last so far, is to use Low Variables to create the glossary of terms, and use NSM’s TinyMCE to reference those Low Variables.

The latter seems to be the best option, but due to my inexperience, I am just not quite sure. There may be a much better way. My proposed solution may be way off base. Either way, I wanted to ask here because I thought someone would have tried something similar.

All the best,
Jarrod

Are the linked glossary items inline or say in a list at the end of the document?

If it’s the latter you could use the Playa addon - http://pixelandtonic.com/playa - to select any number of glossary entries and append them to the end of the document.

I apologize for not being more clear. I would like to give the client the ability to add glossary terms inline with the article. In other words, anywhere within the TinyMCE, or whichever editor you choose, you could highlight the term “chemical reaction” from within the paragraph and somehow tell EE that this term has a glossary counterpart somewhere in the database, maybe a low variable.

No need to apologise 😊

That’s a bit of a stinker to work through but one of Low’s addons may work - http://gotolow.com/addons/low-link - or at least give you a starting point.

Thank you. I will try this and report back on my findings.

I have successfully used Low Link to link a glossary item from the “Glossary” channel, but I have hit a roadblock. Does anyone know how I would go one step further, and pull in data from the “Definition” custom field for that particular glossary item.

In other words:

The tag output from Low Link for a term called “airspace” is as follows when I wrap it in double brackets [[airspace]].

<a href="/glossary/airspace/" class="low_link word-82">airspace</a>

But I need something like this:

<a href="/glossary/airspace/" class="low_link word-82">airspace</a>
<div class="tooltip">
     The definition for airspace goes here which is a custom field called "definition" in the channel "Glossary".
</div>

I still can’t think of any way to accomplish this. Anyone?