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By ianr on
I've been reading all the posts about blogs - probably one of the biggest topics of confusion in Drupal - and I still can't figure out how to do what I want.
What I want to do is have a number of blogs - ie more than one - but NOT to have one for every user.
Effectively, I want to create an 'issues' blog, and then have a particular user keep it up to date - and the one user might keep several 'issue' blogs up to date.
(1) The blog module probably isn't the right approach, as it makes 1 blog per user.
Then there all the other options, probably many more than I've got below -
(2) make a special content type and do something with the views module
(3) use comments and do something with the views module
(4) use the relativity.module somehow
(5) do something magic with a vocabulary
Does any one have a suggestion for what would be the simplest to implement and use? I've almost got to the point that I'll use an external (to drupal) blog program - though then the text won't be searchable etc...
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Use CCK.module and create your own blog types.
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A bit more info
OK, I get that CCK makes content, but how would I use that to do what I want?
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when you create a new content type, lets say issues blog.
you then have a set of permissions that you can hand out to say, the issues role. users in this role have the permissions you give them.
I'd then use taxonomy to categorize the issues blogs
vocabulary = issues
terms = computer issues, tissue issues, so on so forth
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thanks
Thanks, that worked and only took a few minutes.. Of course, I didn't actually need cck! I'm surprised more of the blog questions posted in the forum haven't been answered that simply..
Now I'll just get some aliasing of the URL happening, and juggle the format around a bit - on that, sorry to ask probably another simple question - where (and how) do I edit how my new blog_node looks like when it is displayed ie so I can shift where the time stamp or heading is displayed??
Ian
Edit: there is one problem with the above approach - there is no way to allow certain users to access certain blogs, as the permission is 'course grained' ie the either can, or can't, make blog_nodes...
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If core doesn't offer you the control access you desire you browse the contrib modules to handle user access and authentication. see: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/74
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