Hi there, over the past week I've been researching and learning about how to use drupal, and as you probably know, I'm a bit overwhelmed(and excited of course with the possibilities). I've made significant progress in theming and getting many modules necessary to my site(first one ever), but I'm running out of steam in trying to find relevant documentation and tutorials. I'm sure they're out there, but FINDING them can be a real ordeal. Knowing what to search for is a big issue because the terminology and such isn't intuitive or self explanatory without special knowledge.
To the point, I'm not quite sure how to go about applying the organization I would like for my site. Drupal already has the foundations for what I need(primary and secondary menus), but I would like the secondary menu displayed to be related to whatever section has been selected from the primary menu.
For example, if some one selects 'games' from the primary menu I would like the site to load the games area 'homepage' in the content area and then load a taxonomy based(got taxonomy menu for that) secondary menu in the left column listing all the vocabulary groups that I have constructed for the games section.
I don't even know where to begin with this. Suggestions for tutorials, modules, general advice?
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administer -> menus
check the settings tab for related information regarding how to set up primary and secondary links.
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hmm
Thanks for responding, but I don't understand how the options there can be used to solve my difficulty. I've done some further investigation and I wonder if the "Page specific visibility settings" are the way to go with this although I cant seem to get it to work right...
Could you elaborate?
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my fault , i read right over a sentence where you want the "secondary menu" to show in the sidebar.
that said, you are correct, you want to create your menus, which will create their own blocks then enable these blocks on specific page you choose.
this becomes simple once you set up correct paths.
ie: all games content is under the games path, using pathauto.module
then you set the games menu/block to only show in the games path.
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Thanks!
Thanks!
Argh yet another pitfall
Ok, so in my attempt to apply the solution to the original question I've encountered another problem. I've been working on a local test site as suggested by the drupal cookbook.
In all the test content pages I've set up the path has been something like http://localhost/drupal/content/mypage and I can't seem to create my own page 'heirarchy'. What I would like is something like http://localhost/drupal/mysection/mypage so that I can apply the block display filter to all pages under that section as if they were in the same folder. Instead of that I just seem to get pages that are as if they exist on their own without any directory structure.
The site around here SEEMS to use a folder like struture where pages are contained within sections. Is this the case or is it an illusion? Can I actually create real sections with their own subpages like folders and files in windows?
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Drupal is not file based so there aren't "files" and "folders"
what you see is created by teh path.module, which is part of core. URL aliases are written to alter paths to your liking.
I pointed you to the pathauto.module (in the downloads area) which helps you automate this process and allows for what you are asking.
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