By ms1 on

Hi

I have an issue that I do not understand. Can anyone please guide me.

I am using the 'Poll' module. With this I create polls, and have a menu item called 'POLLS' to which I have the path pointed as 'poll/*'. Also my path alias make urls as '123.com/poll/........'. So all polls are listed when I click the menu item.

Now I created another contect type 'ABC DEF' with machine readable name as 'ABC_DEF', and created contents under it. Also the path alias for this is '123.com/abc-def/........'. And now I want to create a menu-item to point all nodes of this content type being displayed as teasers. So I tried 'abc-def/*'. But here I am stumped, this does not work and gives me the error.
- "The path 'abc-def/*' is either invalid or you do not have access to it."

I even tried the machine-readable name but it does not work.

Can anyone please suggest me as to what I am doing wrong, and how to correct?

Thanks & Regards

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lameei’s picture

lameei commented

I think you need to use taxonomy terms. search in community for it.

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ms1 commented

Hi Mostafa Lameei

See the issue is that if it works for POLL content-type then why not any other content-type?

I do have a vocabulary with taxonomy-terms for this content-type. But is it possible to have menus pointing to vocabularies?

Thanks and Regards

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lameei commented

It is possible to create a menu pointing to a term not to a vocab.
About the poll it may be a feature supported by that module. but for making menus with taxonomy do this:

1. create the term in the vocabulary. each term has a number.
2. create menu item and in it's path type this: taxonomy/term/19. take into consideration that the 19 is the number of the created term.

Here it is. now you have a menu item pointing to a vocab term, when you click on this menu item you will get all the contents published with this term.

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ms1 commented

Hi Mostafa

Thank you for the help.

Actually I have a lot of terms under the vocabulary, around 30.
So I could have used - in the menu "taxonomy/term/1+2+3+4+.....+29+30", but that makes the presentation a little awful. Also the page displayed will show all the terms at the top which is very cluttered.

I think using views module is the option. (http://www.drupal.org/project/views),
or
I am also exploring the taxonomy_menu module (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu)

Lets see if I can solve this with them.

Thanks & Regards

lameei’s picture

lameei commented

let me know if you did it ;-)

vfranklyn’s picture

vfranklyn commented

I'm curious to know the outcome of this as well.

Just so I'm clear, I can't link to a specific content type (created in CCK) as a menu item?

Thanks!

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WorldFallz commented

i think what you're trying to do is demonstrated by this video: http://drupal.org/node/247205

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