By melchior on

hi guys,

I'm new to drupal and got my most wanted features to work :D
I really love the generic way drupal is working on...

but now I want to customize my options under "create content" so
the usabilty gets enhanced immediately..

What I need (ruled on several content-types) is:

- don't show the "menu" function
- don't show the "alias" function

Additionally, it would be nice if menu entries are automaticaly maden "in backend" by
overtaking the title (to lowercase, strip special chars) so that the user no more
gets prompted for inputing this manualy.

and automaticly generated aliased also would be very aweful.

I hope some of you out here also wanting mentioned features :D

thx for your reps!
melchior

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

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BrianKlinger commented

Check out the pathauto module.

As far as automating the menu items, I've been fighting with this for about a week with no luck. I ended up making a new menu block under the main menu navigation with some pretty fancy php coding that got me what I needed. Hopefully someone else can help you out with your situation.

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melchior commented

thx for pathauto! works great for me.

with Formfilter module I found a way to hide
any inputs I want to special user role :)

Now I only need a method to optimize the menu selection
for user.

I think best-practice would be If I could chooose a menu item
per content type, so the user can only select underlaying
items.

if i had this menu:

- root
-- lala
--- my projects
---- project a
---- project b
---- project c

if would assign "my projects" to content type,
the user would have this selection box on
creating new content instead of seeing the
whole menu selection:

Select your menu:
- project a
- project b
- project c

what do u think about it?
is there sth like this out there?

greetings!
melchior

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melchior commented

yeah, I overlooked the settings options in administer->structure->menu->settings

there you can apply your menu-point thats used as root for menu options in creating new content :)

now there's only one thing I really wants to have:

- how can I make this automatik that new contents title is also used to be the menu item title?

so far,
melchior