Janode nodes not accessible through menu, no start page for web catalog [#164322]

Hi,

maybe I've overlooked something, but in my installations, Janode nodes are not accessible through the menu, there is simply no menu entry like ./book, ./node, .forum, etc. available. Also, I can't add a menu item like "resources", or "weblinks" to the primary or secondary menu.

Secondly, there seems to be no "start page" for a web catalog where Janode nodes are collected; users expect something similar to the old Yahoo! start page, or like todays Dmoz if they enter a link collection. Even if the page layout of a link collection could be different, the links would have to be categorized somehow. Nothing of this I can do with Janode.

However, besides of this, entering weblinks works fine, and I can add taxonomy terms to the Janode node - I just can't display them together or sorted in a sensible way.

Regards, asb

Comments

Comment #1

AjK commented 3 August 2007 at 19:27

Category:	bug	» support
Status:	Active	» Fixed

The way to get what you want is the same as any other drupal node, that's all a janode is. I didn't bother adding any display code when I created janode as I didn't need anything special.

I just used this snippet, http://drupal.org/node/53085 modified to suit my needs and that gives me a catelogue (by taxonomy) of my janodes. Feel free to add new display code and add to an issue as a patch :)

Comment #2

asbdpl commented 4 August 2007 at 13:37

Status:

Fixed

» Closed (works as designed)

> Feel free to add new display code and add to an issue as a patch :)

If I could code something like this, I wouldn't bother with Drupal ;-)

I tried the "Directory" module, wich also seems to have several bugs that render it useless (http://drupal.org/node/164445) end ended up with using the "Book" mechanism from Drupal Core. The resulting lists are pretty confusing and require a lot of manual work, but it's better than nothing.

What occurs to be ugly and highly irritating, is that now the hyperlink itself appears *below* the book's navigational elements (headline - node with description - navigation elements - hyperlink). Users don't understand that the hyperlink belongs to the node, and the navigational elements for the book have nothing to do with the node itself. Hm, maybe I should switch als Janode nodes back to standard node types, currently there seem to be no advantages at all.

Regards, asb