By fhelmschrott on

Hi all,

i'm currently planning a new project that will host information about products. Each product should have additional pages with information and stuff about the product. Also there will be a directory of company that should be linked to the products they offer.

I thought about using related node functionality of CCK but i don't know how to display the relation on both sides.

The result should be like this:

- Product main page (basic information, probably image and stuff, cck content type "product", listed companies that offer this product)
- Product sub pages (additional information, linked to product, cck content type "product information")
- Company profile (basic information about the company, cck content type "company", listed products that are offered by this company)

The Product pages should have a block in the sidebar with a small sub navigation that shows all the linked nodes.

Can anyone tell me if and if yes how this will work with cck relations? I guess automated relations are the only way that will make this whole thing manageable.

Thanks for any suggestion!

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p6 commented

These things might interest you.

http://drupal.org/project/nodefamily
http://drupal.org/project/relatedcontent

Don't forget reading some handbook documentation on how to do this (or atleast something close) using nodereferences: http://drupal.org/node/180852 (In a more generic context though)

-Pavan Keshavamurthy
http://grahana.net/

- Pavan Keshavamurthy
http://grahana.net/

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fhelmschrott commented

Thanks for your reply, Pavan. Highly appreciated.

Unfortunately the linked modules look like not beeing 6.x compatible :( Too bad. Drupal 7 is right in front of the door and still so much stuff not possible with 6.x

I'll do some reading in the handbook and will see. Thanks anyway.

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fhelmschrott commented

I'm bringing this topic up again just because i'm a bit confused about whether to use taxonomy for relations or the cck node relations or anything else to change in current plans?.

I've just worked around with the cck node relations and views yesterday and came to where i'm not able to continue. My setup is:

- One CCK Type "Product"
- One CCK Type "Productinformation" with a node relation field to "Product"

The nodes created with the latter one should be kind of "subpages" for the products. Therefore i have to have a menu that shows up on the products page and all subpages showing the links to all subpages. that basically isn't really a problem with views. But currently i'm unable to have that a bit more comfortable. For example also show the main product link in the menu and have it marked as the main page (bold, color, whatever).

That looks like i have to code some special block without views to get this working, don't i?

I think this is kinda stuff where views and "click and build" stuff comes to an end - or is it just me not seeing the possiblities of views or other modules?

Thanks for sharing your ideas.