story collection page, like front page
I'm new to Drupal and getting confused...
I would like to have a page on which 3 specific users can add stories and registered users can comment on them.
To accomplish this on the front page is very simple, just give the 3 users permission to write stories and have them add a story and select "Promoted to front page". But I don't want this to be the front page, but on a different page somewhere in my site.
With the blog module something close can be accomplished, but it seems that every users can only have it's own separate blog, while I want a blog with 3 posters in/on it.
And there is the Node Relativity module which could do the job but isn't ported to drupal 6, according to node 227408.
I would expect it to be easy to have a page like http://www.drupal.org/ where several people can ad stories and users can comment on them, without it having to be the front page of the website. I would even expect it to be so very trivial that it can be done without any additional modules.
I got this to work on the front page within 5 minutes after installing Drupal, but for some reason I can't figure out how to do this on any other page.
Any help is appreciated.
Views
Sounds like you want the views module.
Michelle
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indeed
The Views module indeed did the trick.
I was able to design a view which looks exactly like the frontpage. relatively easy.
It's still a bit weird I needed a 2.6MB module to accomplish what Drupal can already do out-of-the-box. True, the views module can do much more and I expect to be using it for much more too.
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Drupal does it out of the box with a custom function that specifically pulls nodes that have been promoted to the front page. You can do the same thing with a custom module using SQL to pull from the database. But most people find the views module to be a lot easier to work with.
Michelle
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