By miladen on

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to solve mentioned issue for more than 2 months. I have searched many forums, downloaded and installed dozens of modules and crashed my content some times without coming closer to a solution.

The big picture:
I want to create the opportunity for my users to upload their lecture notes to a common database for every other user to access.

Solution so far:
I have chosen to add a nodetype called 'notes'. Then gone in to path-auto to create a change in the URL based on the nodetype, 'notes', so that all new 'notes' have the url www.myurl.dk/content/notes/*specifictitle*

I just don't know where to go from here... Can you guys give me a tip?

Thank you!

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chicagomom’s picture

chicagomom commented

Hi miladen,
Can you say a little more about the difficulty you're having with your solution? It's hard to tell from what you've said.

If you're looking for a list of particular items by node type, have you tried creating a view?

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miladen commented

Hey man, thanks for your reply.

I have not yet come across 'a view'. Can you explain?

My problem is that I have a nodetype called 'notes' and I want to make a page where all of the different 'notes' nodes are viewed... optimally in categories within the nodetype... So if people press the navigationlink 'notes' they get:

Math notes
English notes
Biology notes
etc.

And when they press ex. 'Math notes', they get all notes nodes with a taxonomy called 'math notes'.

I don't know how better to explain it.

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schnelle02 commented

Views is the module you need. It takes a while to familiarize yourself with it, but after a tutorial and some experimenting it is very useful. To get you on the right track, after installing Views:

Create a new view (your view can contain a page or block).

If you want a separate page to show a list of the notes, then create a page. If you want a block to be displayed on a sidebar in the homepage or something, then create a block.

You will make your view a 'list' of 'fields', then specify what fields, probably the notes 'title' which will provide a link to the original notes node.

You will need to add a filter so the view will display the correct content. Add new filter ---> Content Type: Notes.

Also if you want to be able to filter by department or category, you will need to tag each notes page with a taxonomy term. Then you can create an exposed filter to let the users filter by what category they want, if they want it more specific. You can then add this block to a section of your homepage. Or add the page link to a menu with a path.

This should get you started if you have any questions just add them below.

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miladen commented

Thanks so much for your answer!

I have been struggling with views since you replied and I have figured it out now, thank god :)

Thanks for your help.

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schnelle02 commented

Yes it takes a little while to get comfortable working with views, but it is a very useful tool once you get it down. Combine it with Taxonomy and you can create all kinds of neat stuff.