Drupal is certainly a powerful and comprehensive package but it seems to me that basic, everyday administrative tasks are sometimes obscured under layers of non-essential bells and whistles. For example, I have just spent over two hours trying to create a new menu sub-heading under navigation for a collection of stories on a particular topic. Surely that couldn't get much simpler, could it? But the form can't be submitted unless something sensible is entered in the 'path' field. I think this must be a stumbling block for the typical CMS administrator. I'm a web developer and even I haven't got a clue what to enter. Why do I need to supply a path? I'm only creating a label. To my logical mind, the path is something to do with the location of the content I wish to associate with the label. If I can't create my label till I have content available that still doesn't help me if I don't know what the path to the content is. Surely it is the job of a content management system to look after such relatively low level issues?
By manObject on
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Your choices
Your choices are:
* Point the label to a sensible path.
* Create a new menu block.
The "navigation" menu really is intended for personalized links that point to functionality that is specific to a logged in user, and as noted in Drupal itself, it may not even appear for anonymous users.
Menu niggles
Hi Yelvington
Thanks for pointing out that Drupal menus can be user-specific. I think I've been trying to run before I can walk...:)
Also, you might want to have
Also, you might want to have a look at the views module which can help create dynamic lists of nodes (from a particular term or vocabulary, by author, etc) with URLS that you can then use in menus.
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