I'm new to Drupal, and not much of a programmer (I can edit pre-existing php code). The site I want to make won't have any community aspects, there will be only 2 levels of users, anonymous users and administrators.
I want to have a dynamic menu system where only published content (whatever type) will appear in the menus, when a document exists but is not published menu items that point to it aren't shown.
Currently when I unpublish a page the link remains in the menu and when you click it (as anon) you get an unauthorised message.
I suspect I need to use the Views module to filter unpublished content, but I also need to be able to specify the order of the links in the menu. Can anyone give me any tips or pointers as to how I might achieve this?
Many thanks
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Hmmm Views can indeed filter
Hmmm Views can indeed filter unpublished content but I'm not sure it can interact with menus. Possibly that's being added in v2.0.
Try http://drupal.org/project/remove_nonviewable_menu_items.
Menu items are arranged (sorted) first by weight, then alphabetically. By default the weight for any item is 0. Change it by going to admin/build/menu and then hit edit for the relevant menu item. The weight can also be set directly from within the Menu fieldset on the node edit page.
HTH,
gpk
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gpk
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