By Miket99 on

I have been trying to decide how to organize pages in my site and had settled on placing "stories" under a common menu item. My idea was to have Projects as the menu label with story1, story2, story3, under the Projects menu. But it seems I am only allowed to have one story per menu item. That can't be correct. I must be misunderstanding how to edit the "URL path setting". What should this line say when more than one story is linked to a menu item? -MikeT

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2houseplague commented

Organize your stories under a common taxonomy, then link from your menu to that taxonomy term, or make a Views page which filters for that taxonomy and link to that. I'm assuming what you want to do is create a menu item that links to a page where certain stories are listed.

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Miket99 commented

Thanks for helping me. I do not understand what a "views page" is. Is this a page or container for more than one story?

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nevets commented

You need the views module to construct a view. Each view can produce a page and/or block. You determine the what is show and how it shown. When associated a view with a page you also specify the path used to display the view. See the Views Module for more information.

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nevets commented

Each menu entry is simply a link (the path) to a page, the page can be a single story, a list of stories and more.

So if you have a node, say node/123 and want to display it as a page your menu entry would use 'node/123'.

So if I understand correctly from "Administer" -> "Site building" -> "Menus" you clicked "Add menu" to add a menu called "Projects".
Next for each story you want in the "Projects" you would click "Add menu item", fill in at least the title, path (probably something like node/123) and make sure that "Parent item:" is set to "Projects"

Hope this helps, if not can you walk through what you are trying to do.

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jvalente commented

Well, i think i have the same question but that solution doesn't work because i dont want to have menu item children. I want for example a link "news" o leads people to a page with a set of stories, and i dont understand how to do it. Hope you people can help me.

Best regards,

João Valente.

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nevets commented

With the views module you can construct a page that list the contents of your choosing. It includes the ability to define a menu item for the page.

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cratos commented

I had the same problem, here goes how i solve it:

1.Create a new vocabulary, with the type "Story", then add Terms. Ex: Vocabulary (Storys) and Term (News). If u click in the term name, you can see the number that drupal gave to the term.

2.Create a story and associate to the correspondent term.

3.Create a menu link with same path of the term created in setp1.

From here all the story u create associated to the term, will appear from the same menu link.

Hope it helps.

David Gomes

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DelSurSEO commented

David,
That is quite an elegant, and I would even say, ingenious solution. I am a newbie to Drupal, and the previous explainations for this issue were leaving me confused, and I don't even see "view" in my list of modules in Drupal. I used your solution, and I really like how it works. Even the RSS feed at the bottom of the page lists all the blog posts the way a typical blog platform would. Also, this enables me to use stories to create a blog, and thus avoid the duplicate content issues with using the blog module and/or having to tweak those.

Anyway, thanks for sharing that.

SEO and SEM in San Diego and Beyond

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mudsurfer commented

I have found this post, which was fastastically helpful - I'm new to drupal and had been scratching my head about this issue - I knew it would be simple - and it was!
But simple does not necessarily equate to obvious, at least for me :)

Having created the menu path that link sto the collection of stories grouped by Taxonomy terms, is there an easy way to set a different sort order on the appearing stories, rather than posted date?

Thanks all.

Update: I have since discovered the joys of views module. This provides all I need and more. Thanks to Lullbot for some excelent resources on their site, and their "Using Drupal" book. I highly recommend it for beginners.

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phpsharma commented

Thanks for the info..