Hi
The layout of the content type Article displays nice on the front page, I want to display content like that on other pages than the front page aswell.
When I search for "Promote Story to page other than front page" I get 2736 results.
http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/Promote%20Story%20to%20page%2...
(In Drrupal 6 Article is called Story)
If im not wrong, the solution (or one solution) is to create a content type for each page and a views page for each page.
I find this to be but quite heavy for new users. If only there was a simple drop down meny for the content type "Article" that says "put in page".
Wouldnt that be much easyer for new users of Drupal ?
especially when there is so many people asking for this..
However there is a field called "put in menu" why not one for "put in page" too ? or let:
"Article" have the drop down field "put in page"
And only "Basic page" have the drop down "put in menu"
instead 2736 new users search and find out you have to install additional modules to be able to simple put your article in the new basic page you just created ! (The module im refering to is offcourse Views)
Further as a new Drupal user, learning views is way much if one only want to get that article about sunshine in your new basic page called Summertime.
Content type "Story" And "Page" actually are identical !
If you search "Difference beteween Article and Basic page"
The answere is They are identical , BUT you can customize them differently.
whats the point of that ? why not just have one called "Create content" ?
Anyways I have tried to solve this the hard way..
I created such a drop down field (put Article in page) in the content type "Article" but I still have to create a views page for each page and further it doesnt display so nice as it does on the front page. This because that content display is controlled by views, and I dont know how to set that up in the way it does on the front page.
I then discovered:
In views there is a view called Front page, one can duplicate that one and change the filter node type and path to get other content types to "almost" display the way it does on the front page. By almost I mean it displays the same exept an image doesnt display in the teaser.
I find this to be very confusing , maybe I have missed something ?
Please help if anyone knows the answere to my question at the top.
Otherwise I must say I find Drupal to be a huge and great CMS !
Best Regards
Tor
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You have described exactly
You have described exactly what views is for. It cannot be in core as you describe because that is how YOU wish to use it. Many users wouldn't want the system to work as you describe, myself included.
It sounds like your only problem is that you need to become a little more familiar with views, view displays and theming.
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Ok I undertand
An article is only supposed to be on the front page
And Basic page is only supposed to be static unless you install views and customize it.
However in my case:
I have managed to display content almost like it does on the front page by using the disabled views type called "Front page". I duplicated it and changed the path to my page and the filter type to the node type.
That works great ! It displays exactely the same way as the front page only exept image doesnt display in the teaser. Do you know how to also get the image to display ?
I cannot add image field since The fields are disabled on this Views type ( Frontpage)
If I create a new view type I can add fields but then I dont get that great theming like on the front page.
Any help is appretiatet !
Tor
If your images are not
If your images are not displaying on the 'teaser' view, you probably just need to unhide them. You can do this on the content type edit screen under the "Manage Display" tab.
Assign the page a url
Do you see at the bottom of the content creation form that you can assign this article a url of your choosing?
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
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No I only see you can change the URL Alias for content type "Article"
also Content type "Article" and my new content type has the exact same settings under
"Manage Display" tab. for the note I also tried the other display ways "Over" and "integrated"
I understand what you said, but just that so many others have asked the same (2736 not just me )
and that Content type Article and Basic page actually are identical , I find a bit confusing.
Article should goes to pages right.. and
Pages goes to menus..
No, you're simply wrong.
No, you're simply wrong. Regardless of how you think it should work. I don't know where you're coming up with your 2736 number, the drupal.org search engine returns 2 results (one of which is this thread) for the phrase you mentioned. Google has 44 results.
The difference between an "Article" and a "Page" is a superficial one that is primarily intended to illustrate that you can create custom content types for whatever you want. They are described on the node/add page
Articles: Use articles for time-sensitive content like news, press releases or blog posts.
Pages: Use basic pages for your static content, such as an 'About us' page.
Based on the descriptions provided, there is nothing to lead someone to believe that "articles go to pages" and "pages go to menus".
You can solve what you want with views and a little bit of reading on how to use them.
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Sorry about that I see as the list goes down it fades out from the original question thats true.
But from the begining I was reading from this thread:
http://drupal.org/node/940558
Anyway sorry about my confusion
Thanks for your reply
Bstrgds
Tor
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I think what he's trying to say is that Articles are more like Blogs and not like Pages. So where there is an aggregation of Blog posts by default at URL yoursite.com/blogs there should be an aggregation of articles at yoursite.com/articles by default as well.
I do think from the descriptions it makes it appear that this is the case. It mentions News and Blogs under Articles and static pages like About under Basic Page.
I think I can agree with the OP (if he's meaning what I think) because by design Drupal appears to have made the article like a blog but just more sensitive like News. I use my articles for news because they are more urgent or "must reads" while the blogs are more whimsical.
With that said your statements are very true. This is not provided out of the box and the best method would be to use a view. I have a view setup for a page displaying content of type article and menu link News. Then when someone clicks the News link they have the the last ten articles in teaser. It is easy and it's what people need to do at this tie because it isn't available like the default blog aggregation.
For God's sake!! The original
For God's sake!! The original question is pretty simple!!
This guy seems to have some distinct subjects on his website, and he wants to publish articles in each particular page.
For example:
The page related to "cars" will have articles related to "cars".
The page related to "movies" will have articles related to "movies".
Of course, someone will say: "If he has different subjects, he should create different websites", but it's not a matter of "the best practice should be", it is a matter of "he designed his website this way".
I have read the whole thread and I can't believe how creative people are, when they want to make it more complex than it should be.
If I'm not wrong, it's exactly what he needs: "to put some articles in one page, and some other articles in another page".
I'm sorry, I can't answer "how to do that", but I'm trying to help you out, telling people what you need. I believe I'll not have to draw his question to explain it better, right?
Thanks
Marcelo
Thanks marcelo for trying to
Thanks marcelo for trying to help.. I need this too and I'm sure hundreds of others in time...
Unfortunately there posters in this forum are simple bloggers so they don't even want to help... it is sad.
Keeping like topice on one page other then home
Have anyone ever received the answer to this issue.
I am new to drupal. I have a few articles about camping and I only want them to show up on the basic page called camping. I do not want them to show up on any other page.
So what is the least complicated way to do this?
Views
The least complicated way of doing this is using "Views". Views may appear daunting to a new user. (It was for me.) Sometime you feel like, I just want to do X, why do I need all this. But after you watch a couple videos and mess around with it, it becomes clear that you can create a block with your 3 (or 30) camping articles on it and assign it to a single page. If the articles are long or you have many, you can use Views to generate a list of articles with links to their individual pages.
I don't have a specific video for you, but anything from Mustard Seed Media or Drupalize.me is quite good.
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
Thanks
thanks, I had the same problem, that articles couldn't be posted anywhere else. with your topic here, i found out how.