By sfinerty on

Hi all,

I am relatively new to Drupal (using ver 4.7 but looking at upgrading). I've been working with it for a couple of months now and have been through Taxonomy and book modules and am now using Category. What I want to do should be straight forward but I can't seem to find the answer.

I am building a static, informational website (no forums, no user logins etc.) and have two ways of categorizing my information:

by audience (Clients, Business Partners, Staff)
by focus (Financial, Education, News, Other Stuff)

I created these two containers and populated them with the categories (in brackets) and then created 'pages' and selected categories from both containers for each node. For instance, one page might have 'Clients' as well as 'Financial' attached to it. Each node I enter will only ever have one Audience category and one Focus sub-category attached to it. Each category of information has information specific to the audience.

What I want to do is create navigation that will allow users to see all the information by Audience and also by Focus.

I have created the primary navigation as the Audience and when someone selects their Audience, it should show them a list of Focus categories with nodes below them that are only specific to that Audience. I can get this to show all posts or nodes with a teaser but I want a list categorized by Focus to show up instead. (I've also been able to get a list of all nodes for Audience but can't seem to get the Focus in there).

Clients

Financial
How to file your tax return
What to do about your RRSPs

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Business Partners

Financial
Where has all your money gone?
Future investments

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I have created a menu that lists all the Focus categories and also want the Audiences to show up as a second level navigation under it automatically. I have been able to do this manually by adding the node to the menu and calling it 'Clients' but that is not the same as having it auto-generate based on the categories.

Financial
Clients
How to file your tax return
What to do about your RRSPs
Business partners
Where has all your money gone?
Future investments
Staff

Education
News
Other Stuff

You get the idea. I have tried setting up a view and selecting it in the Container but it doesn't produce any results. I've tried all different ways of using distant parents, hidden containers, setting the depth of the TOC and nothing seems to give me what I am looking for.

Has anyone done this already? Can you tell me the secret??

All suggestions welcome...

sfinerty