How to get stories to appear on specific pages?
talyia - July 20, 2008 - 15:09
Okay...this is a REALLY basic question for all of you I am sure... (I am quite new to all of this).
I have built pages as such:
http://www.mysite.com/articles
http://www.mysite.com/cover
http://www.mysite.com/columns
And I have built the following content types:
article
cover
column
What is the easiest way for me do things so that I can get the columns to appear on the column page, the articles appear on the articles page and the cover story appear on both the cover and articles pages?
I am busy converting a static site at http://www.lee-magazine.com to a Drupal one. We want to try it keep the basic layout/sorting of content as similar as possible to the original website.
Thanks a lot for your help! MUCH appreciated:)
Christine
Pages vs. lists
Generally you should not have built pages if you want them to be lists.
In Drupal, lists are referred to as "views." There are some built into the core system. If you want a view that doesn't already exist, create it using the Views module.
If you want precise editorial control over a list, use Views in conjunction with the Nodequeue module.
To hit your design target, you're going to have to learn how to use theme overrides to format the Views output. To capitalize your titles on the views pages, you should use CSS (text-transform:capitalize).
Can the Sections module be used as an alternative?
And would you recommend this at all or is it preferable to stick to Views?
(When you say that I want them to be "lists", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean the different categories I want to place them into? Again, I apologize for this seemingly dumb question but I am new to the Drupal lingo)
Thanks a lot,
Christine
Language
Often casual language is imprecise. In Drupal, the following terms are used:
node: a single content object of any type. A blog posting, a story, an event, a classified ad, etc.
view: the results of a database query that returns multiple node references -- in effect, a list of nodes. A view may be displayed in any of a number of formats, ranging from simple bulleted lists to grids and calendars and even coverflow. The default front page of a Drupal installation is a view often called a "river of news." The Views module can create new views, and offer them up as complete pages or as blocks, which can be reworked for presentation through the theme system.
taxonomy: the science of organizing things. In Drupal, the administrative link to the taxonomy functionality is currently labeled "categories," which is imprecise but seems to work better for people who partied too much and slept late most mornings of their freshman year of college. If you showed up for biology or botany class, you probably heard of taxonomy and Linnaeus.
vocabulary: In taxonomy, a collection of terms (words) that are meaningful in organizing stuff. "News" "Sports" and "Weather" would be terms. So would "Los Angeles" "San Francisco" and "Sacramento." You would not want to throw them all into one vocabulary. Drupal supports as many vocabularies as you want. It also supports multiple types of vocabularies, including flat, hierarchical, and ad hoc (free tagging).
I don't use the sections module. I gather that its primary utility is mapping alternative presentational templates to sections, and there are several other ways to do that.
Thanks Yelvington:)
I appreciate your detailed response... that is a huge help!
I think what I also need to do is go through some of the handbook now so I can at least get the basics under my belt:)
I threw myself into this headfirst and thought (mistakenly) that once I built the initial custom theme, the rest would be easy! But boy, was I wrong! FYI, here is where I am at... just finished building the initial custom theme: http://74.220.215.68/~leemagaz/
Now I need to start working on "inner structure"....:)
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Christine
"Placing" content onto specific pages
Hi Christine. A couple of good resources to answer the question of how to "place" a specific content item onto a specific page in Drupal:
http://www.drupalace.com/blog_entry_understanding_node_list_pages_drupal...
http://drupal.org/node/176252
Sounds like you've already got it figured out, but FYI those might be helpful.
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Thank you very much!
I just saw your post... thank you!
Up until now, since my last post, I have been fiddling with content types, path auto, CCK and Views. (brain is feeling a bit boggled but little by little I am getting there:)
I am working with my first content type "Articles".
After creating a view called "Articles" (and then choosing pathauto to use [type]/[title])and then creating a test article post, the article shows up at http://www.mysite.com/articles/and-yet-one-more-article-test (and even pulls up the custom articles template I made YAHOO!) BUT nothing shows up at http://www.mysite.com/articles. After all my work I had planned for it to show a list of the test articles I just posted but it doesn't:((( I get a page not found error if I go to http://www.mysite.com/articles
Alas... back to the drawing board
Now to try and figure out what I may have done wrong. Do you have any suggestions or can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks very much in advance for your help:)
Christine
UPDATE....
I changed one of the options in View from "Fields" to node (Yes... I understand what this is for:) and also made a URL of "articles" for the view. So now it calls up correctly onto http://www.mysite.com/articles
HOWEVER, this page is not calling up the correct page-articles.tpl.php that I had built for it:( Yet if I click on one of the nodes on that page, the correct template is pulled up for each individual node's page, http://www.mysite.com/articles/and-yet-one-more-article-test for example.
I am trying to figure out what else may be missing and how I can get that to work correctly so that it pulls up the template?