By mealto on
How do we choose which block to show on each page? We have 2 large sections on our website and wanted to display a different left-hand menu navigation bar. How do we do this?
Also, we have a "Recent Articles" type block on the right hand menu. We wanted to only show recent articles from a specific area of our website (say articles related to cars only). On another page, we wanted the recent articles to be related to airplanes only. Is that possible? How do we setup Drupal to do this when we create our content? I assume you have to tag your pages somehow to get Drupal to recognize these category type pages?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Yes it is possible. One
Yes it is possible.
One approach would be to create a vocabulary that represents the sections of the site and add the appropriate terms (ie the sections).
Now if by "We wanted to only show recent articles from a specific area of our website (say articles related to cars only)" you mean when viewing content tagged for the 'cars' section you want to show recent articles for 'cars' (other content tagged for the 'cars' section) you can use views to achieve that. See http://drupal.org/node/65375 for an example of how.