Hi Andrew,
it would be great to have a "create new instance" link in the "Create Content" area so that users with the create new instances permission can do it from there.
Martin

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#3 362808_node_add_links.patch2.52 KBdeviantintegral

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deviantintegral commented

How would you suggest structuring the multiple skeletons? Somehow you would need to choose which skeleton to create an instance of.

Options I see include:

  1. Simply link to the skeleton admin page.
  2. List a menu item for each skeleton. This could get long quickly though.

We *can't* just add a dropdown to select a skeleton to the form, as it needs to know what skeleton for token integration to work properly.

Any other suggestions? If you can come up with a patch, I'd be glad to review it.

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martin mayer commented

I suggest option number 2. In my opinion a skeleton with child nodes is a new content type. I want to explain why. A skeleton with child nodes is useful to create a book structure which enables users to work on documents which are to complex to be wholly contained in one page. For example this could be planning or analysis documents which are worked on by a team. In this case a structure with planning documents would be one document type and a structure with analysis documents would be another document type. And the users or teams should be able to create a new document structure without needing the help of an administrator each time.

I would be more than happy if I could come up with a patch without having to bother you. Unfortunately I am not yet familiar enough with Drupal module development to do that. I just started trying to get into that but have not come far enough by now.

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deviantintegral commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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No worries - it's a good idea, and one I'd toyed with myself.

Could you try the following patch and see if it works for you? It could especially use testing to ensure that the menu is updated when skeletons are added or deleted.

When you apply the patch, you'll have to reload admin/build/modules to get the menu cache to rebuild the first time.

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martin mayer commented

Great! I tested the patch with book pages and normal pages, each having two child nodes with and without tokens. All versions appear in the "create content" area and generate the books as expected. Thanks a lot! Very helpful to me.

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deviantintegral commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Thanks for the testing and feedback. I've committed this to HEAD.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.