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The book.module allows "structured document publishing" but it seems the structure is limited to 21 pages.
If each page can have a navigation weight and there are 21 weights available (-10 through +10), how do you determine where the 22nd page lays?
How do you structure a book of 100 pages?
Without using weights, pages are sorted alphabetical. Using this, one could write a number in at the beginning of each title, but that seems silly.
Is there a way to set where a page appears (a page number in effect) other than weighting it?
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Structure?
Hi
This isn't the generic answer you are probably looking for but it doesn't involve any code so thats a bonus.
I have a site which has books with 300+ pages all ordered the way I want them and it works only because of structure. Our books have "parts" each having child "chapters" and each chapter having child "sections" where a section is then probably what you are calling a page but with additional structure like we have you can have 21^3 "pages" before the Drupal weights become a problem.
Perhaps your book could be structured into Chapters or Parts? That would be relatively easy without involving any code.
Alternatively I guess someone could try to get the range of available weights expanded?
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Another (although not ideal)
Another (although not ideal) option would be to number the titles of your book nodes.
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using weight?
Thanks, Mark.
Is my understanding correct that you are creating "parts" and "chapters" simply by creating more child pages (see visual reference below)?
BOOK
-Part A
--Chapter I
---Section 1
---Section 2
---Section 3
...
---Section 22
--Chapter II
---Section 1
---Section 2
-Part B
--Chapter I
---Section 1
---Section 2
---Section 3
-Part Z
--Chapter I
---Section 1
And that you are using navigation weights (-10 - +10) on each "Chapter," "Part," and "Section?"
Yep
Yes, thats all we do. If you can't break yours up though then I guess a larger range of weights would be necessary (and shouldn't be too hard I presume). Although, I think you'll need to modify your core code.
Cheers
Mark
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That's how the handbook is essentially organized. It's more then a few hundred pages. Looks like some folks may be working on improvements in Drupal 6.0
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