By Jack_Sparrow on

How do I set up multiple front page stories within the same site?

Each section of the website is a different 'department' and carries it's own information.
What I require is if I click on the home button, then stories will appear there as is in most cases, but if I click on another link I would like that page to be the same functionality as the 'home page', with stories posted in chronological order, but only related to that 'department'.

Basically, I think it should be categorised and when a story is posted, it must be put into a category and when that categorys' home page is selected, then only those stories will appear.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

A couple of approaches, if you are using taxonomy to categorize the content you can list content for a particular term using taxonomy/term/{tid} where {tid} is a taxonomy term id. If you print the terms as part of the node you can find the path needed by visiting the node and clicking the term, otherwise you can visit the taxonomy admin page and list the terms for a given vocabulary, each term name will be the appropriate link.

For more control over the list you could use the views module.

Jack_Sparrow’s picture

Jack_Sparrow commented

Don't you hate it when after you've said something the answer presents itself...?

As I posted this and went for coffee, your sugestion popped into my head!

I've created a 'group' in Taxonomy and added sections to that group that are 'story' based.
Now I've changed the menus to load the individual taxonomy sections I created.

VOILA!

Thanks again... ;-)

accessiveapps’s picture

accessiveapps commented

You have to simply add a vocabulary and each site section would be a term. Then you can "tag" your content in which category it belongs to and when you make a link for the categories it comes up with the stories for this categorie...

You should also use pathauto so that the url's looking nicer.

--patrick

Jack_Sparrow’s picture

Jack_Sparrow commented

Thanks... good suggestion re pathauto...

TNX