By pengi on

How would I list stories so that they're listed by category?

Example, there are news stories that belong in different sections. I'd have navigation entries for the different categories, like Local, National, World, Editorials etc. Each of those links should show the viewer a list of the teasers for the related stories (national etc).

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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pengi commented

Looks like this is just what the taxonomy module is for.

It seems awkward having to remember which integer "National" is represented by, is there no workaround for this?

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winston commented

I'm sure there are many workarounds. First you might want to look at the many Taxonomy related modules. Taxonomy Menu comes to mind. Second, if you look at http://api.drupal.org then you'll find functions related to taxonomy that you could use to create your own PHP if you want to go that route.

- Peter

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pengi commented

OK, I'll see what I can make of the Taxonomy Menu modlue. In the meantime, is there some simple way to sort a set of stories other than by alpha or date? I would like a custom order. I've read that views can help with this but that views are not all that adapted to 6.x, and so far have made little sense of the views module I've installed.

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winston commented

So it should be pretty safe to use. Make sure you upgrade to 6.3.

I don't use Views much so I can't be of help there.

- Peter

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pengi commented

Simple 'custom order' which will do the trick for me now is to simply change the publish date.

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winston commented

Use CCK module and Autonode title modules (along with Token Module). Basically this allows you to hide the normal node title, but have it instead be automatically generated using values from other fields or tokens. By clever use of this technique you could then use the title alpha sort.

- Peter