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Add Tag Cloud View

Follow the steps below to set up a View as a Tag Cloud in a Drupal Content Management System.  This Tutorial assumes that you have previously installed Drupal and are familiar with the Views module and Taxonomy.  If you have not done this, please do so before following these steps.

  1. Go to the Drupal Website
  2. Download the Views, Tagadelic, and Views Tagadelic modules
  3. Go to Administer > Site Building > Modules
  4. Enable all 3 modules
  5. Go to Administer > Content Management > Categories
  6. Add your Vocabulary and some terms, for this example we will call our Vocabulary "Terms"
  7. Create a view a block view as you normally would but select Tagadelic as the View Type
  8. You must add one vocabulary field, for example Taxonomy: Terms for Tags
  9. Click Save at the bottom of the page
  10. Go to Create Content and select the content type for which you have enabled this Vocabulary
  11. Create a node and categorize this content with taxonomy as you normally would
  12. Go to Administer > Site Building > Blocks and put the view in the section you would like
  13. Go to a page where this block will show up and view your Tag Cloud
  14. To configure the Tag Cloud go to Administer > Site Configuration > Tagadelic configuration

If you are having trouble with this, please visit the Drupal website and find documentation.