Adding nodes?

The recommended method for adding a node to a panel page now is as follows:

Go to the 'Contexts' tab.

Under the Contexts section on the right, select 'Node' and click Add.

Select the node you want.

Save the page.

Then go to the Content tab. Click any add content button. You will notice there is a section you do not normally see named 'Node context'. Any of these panes will allow you to display a node or information about a node. Use the 'Node content' pane under the 'Node context' section to do a basic node view.

In the 'Node content' add config dialog, there is an item called the 'panel_identifier'. In your _phptemplate_variables, you can use a piece of code like this:

  // under case 'node', assuming the variables array is named $vars:
  if (!empty($vars['node']->panel_identifier)) {
    $vars['template_files'][] = 'node-panel-' . $vars['node']->panel_identifier;
  }

That will then let you automatically use different panel-based templates depending upon what you enter in that field, giving you maximum control over the presentation of the data.

If the additional power is not needed or not wanted, there is always the legacy nodes module. So you can go either way.

This is an oversight, but at the moment yes, panel nodes don't have the context tab. I'll have to fix that.

Could we add a context tab for panel nodes? I do need this feature (to add nodes to panel nodes) if I am not going to rely on legacy panels... thanks for the great work on panels 2. The drag and drop functionality is really nice.

This only allow me to add one node.
Even if in Context, I have added multipe, When I add in Content, it always show default.

How can i add more nodes to a panel the same behavior as the legacy?

If I add multiple nodes in Context, and give each a different name, it works for me. On the Panels Content screen where one adds content via the Javascript GUI, if I then choose to add node content via context, then I see a dropdown box listing the names of teach of the nodes I originally added on the Context page.

It should be straightforward, but describing it is not straightforward because of the number of different places in Panels where one may click or select context or content.

Adding a context tab for panel nodes is on the docket for beta4. I'll post more updates here as I get to working on it.

Marking as duplicate of #256456: Add context to panel nodes