By gorch on

Hi. I'm using Drupal 6.

I have a 'page' of one-liners. It's a list, and the one-liners are all on the same 'page'.

When I come up with another gem (wink), I want to edit the 'page'. I want to place the new one-liner into the summary/teaser, above the split, and move the one that was already in the summary down, below the split, into the body with the rest of the gems I've already produced.

The 'page' is entitled 'Quips', and it's just a running list.

Now, once I've done the above, I want to 'promote to the front page'.

But, you see, I can't do this, as the 'page' has already been promoted a long time ago, when I wrote the first one-liner and published it. Editing it will not move it from the spot that it took when it was first published. It will remain in spot number one hundred (or whatever it may be) below everything that has been published since, and hence, completely off the front page altogether.

See, I want to promote an edited page back to the top of the front page; but only if I so desire. I don't want this to occur automatically every time I edit something.

I could make a new page each time, easily enough, but it seems that this would change the URL each time. The Path or PathAuto modules would seem to keep the URL in line, but I'd rather just promote the existing page at will.

How might this be accomplished?

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marcrocs’s picture

marcrocs commented

Maybe... copy and save text from original, then delete original, make the new page with the same title and Path or PathAuto should name it to the correct old url and nothing should break. I'm wild guessing but seems like this should work.

Marc

choster’s picture

choster commented

This may be overkill, but it's quite easy to set up. Simply create a node type, "quip" if you will; you don't even need a body, as the title of the quip would be its content. Then, use views to create a listing of quips; use a node type filter to restrict the list to quip nodes, sort by updated date, and have the node title as your sole field (uncheck the box to link the title to its node). You can then add a block view to your homepage that displays the most recently edited quip, and create a page view that displays all of them in order.

markconroy’s picture

markconroy commented

I wonder if you scroll down to Authoring Information and simply change the date it was created on to today's date, would that send it to the top of the list?

Mark.

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Drupal Core Maintainer for "Out of the Box" Initiative.

gorch’s picture

gorch commented

Yes indeed.

Leaving the date-field blank in 'authoring information' in the page-edit screen does the trick; as it should, since it's stated right there: 'Leave blank to use the time of form submission.'

My confidence in Drupal is growing.

Thanks to the three of you; I shall have learned much from each of you.

It seems that Drupal's apparent complexity and contributors' thoroughness mask the simplicity of use at times.

Good day.

markconroy’s picture

markconroy commented

No worries for the help. I'm quite new to drupal and often find the handbook and the technical knowhow of the contributors overwhelming. I think you are the first person that I have helped here (although I have contributed to a few forum topics).

I guess being new was the critical thing here; it seemed to obvious to me (perhaps because I have not been exposed to so much else).

There might be a lesson in this for other drupal helpers - make things as simple as possible!

Mark.

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Drupal Core Maintainer for "Out of the Box" Initiative.

gorch’s picture

gorch commented

Cheers to you.