I need some archiving help...
I work for a college news site and we are currently switching over to a new drupal site. We are building it over the summer. I was wondering what the best solution for archiving old stories would be for this? I was looking into using views but I was not exactly sure what that does. Could I just have a search engine in the site and type in an author or a key word and an old story would come up if using views as an archive solution? I understand that a block would appear for the archive by each month and clicking on a month would list all the stories published then correct? But what if a user did not know what month a story was published in, how would they find the article? I don't know if I am just completely lost on this, but any help would be appreciated thank you.
Basically, views are one of
Basically, views are one of the best ways to display your data in the form of blocks or pages. The Views module allows you to present content in many different ways by sorting and filtering content to suit your specific need, so can publish your content whatever you want. Take a look at the documentation.
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Drupal's search always
Drupal's search always works. It doesn't matter whether or not you have views for browsing nodes chronologically.
I'm not sure exactly what
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by an archive function-- all drupal content is always there and searchable regardless of when it was created (unless you specifically take action to delete or unpublish it). Drupal itself, in a manning of speaking, IS an archive system.
If what you want is a method for browsing (as opposed to searching) older content, then yes, views can do that for you. Views is much more general though, if you want simple archive functionality without having to learn how to use views, there are also several other modules that deal with archive functionality:
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