Panels and my general confusion about using it
All,
I've been using Drupal since 4.2, but I've never had a client interested in a unique layout of their "front page" of their drupal site until now. I see that the Dashboard module has been replaced with Panels (which I assume is the preferred method to do this), and I've installed and played with it, but I guess I'm missing something basic.
I can make a panel set and assign existing content into each panel, but I don't see how to make the initial home page (in other words, the base URL) of the site immediately display the panel set I've created.
Also, it seems that when I stick a node into a panel, the node's title and such also appear, rather than just the content of that node.
The readme for this module seems rather sparse in this regard, and searching through drupal.org gets into details I'm not yet ready to deal with rather than these basics.
So, can anyone point me to or start me with an explanation of Panels basics?
Thanks,
Warr
Go to admin -> site
Go to admin -> site information and set the default home page to be the url of your panel.
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"I can make a panel set and assign existing content into each panel, but I don't see how to make the initial home page (in other words, the base URL) of the site immediately display the panel set I've created."
go to: admin/settings/site-information
enter the url of the panel you want for the front page where it asks for default front page.
I haven't really played with panels that much, so I can't help you on those other issues.
Thanks guys! I guess I
Thanks guys! I guess I should have also mentioned that this is also my first experience with the 5.x series of Drupal, so I the new Home URL feature was one that I was unaware of.
Totally cool and useful. Drupal really has come a very long way.
Thanks again,
Warr