By remektek on

I can't get to grips with creating menus! The problem is I can't figure the "node/something" value that corresponds to what I want in the menu to do. All the "help" passes over this significant nugget of information!

At this stage I just wish to do the most basic of things: I have created a category called "Support". I would now like to have a menu entry called Support which will list all content in this category. I can create the menu entry itself, but how do I figure out the "node/..." value to do this - or anything else???

This is a serious bottleneck for me, to get past in an attempt to switch over from Joomla to Drupal and start to get something mildly useful of the ground.

Thanks in advance,

paul

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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remektek commented

ps: I can see the "node/.." in the url of a page, but in the above example I don't know how to navigate to display all "Support" category content and then get a nodal url for that view.

Thanks.

Paul

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ViTok commented

First you create a content type like "support". Than you create a "View" ->www.your-site.com/admin/build/views/add and in that View you add a filter "Node: Type" and as value you change to your content type "support". In that View go to "Page" and there you can create a URL for that View. That URL you need for your menu and now when you add a "support" the supports are list in your menu.

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yoroy commented

For menus based on taxonomy check out taxonomy_menu module: http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu

About creating menus in general: create a new empty menu in /admin/build/menu and enable it in /admin/build/block.

Now, when creating or editing a node, there's a little link "menu settings" at the bottom part of the node-editing-form. This is where you can manually inject this node into the menu of choice, give it a name and title and order (by weight).

Hope this helps!

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krelian commented

To get a simple listing of the content under a category that you've created go to "categories" in the main drupal admin section, find the vocabulary that you have created and click "list terms". Find the category whose content you want to list and hover your mouse button over it. The URL that your browser shows you in the status bar is the URL you need to link to when you create the menu.

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remektek commented

Thanks for all the usefull replies.
Paul

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mrsocks commented

I am trying yoroy's way but getting a two menu items for the same thing. when I view them in the menus page, they do have two different ID numbers to edit/delete.

but both are the same node number.

I am using taxonomy_menu

Any ideas?

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yoroy commented

Are you doing this:

Now, when creating or editing a node, there's a little link "menu settings" at the bottom part of the node-editing-form. This is where you can manually inject this node into the menu of choice, give it a name and title and order (by weight).

?

That's not necessary when using taxonomy_menu and would indeed create 2 links in the menu. I think…

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mrsocks commented

I have narrowed it down to this function being called: menu_save_item(&$item) in the menu module.

it's possible... BUT

If i dont add this, the menu choice doesnt come up in the list of pages under that category.

ALSO, If I dont use the 'Menu' section when I add the page, it doesnt show in the menu, bit then if I go in and EDIT the node, and add the 'Menu' choice, it only comes up once.

so I am stumped.