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Existence of a module that handles creating related content

Is there a module that assists creating content in relation to an existing page?

For example:

1) Add new tab on the node view:

[view] [edit] [create related content]

2) Provide a simple form for [create related content] callback

Type:
(*) Page
( ) Story
Name: [ ]

Relationship:
(*) Child
( ) sibling

Sibbling weight:
(*) Much lighter
( ) Lighter
( ) Same (alphabetical)
( ) Slightly heavier
( ) Much heavier

[ ] Insert lorem ipsum

3) Pre-populates the "Create content" form of the selected type with;

a) Title & Menu name is set to Name
b) Menu weight is set to -10 / -1 / 0 / +1 / +10 respectively
c) Menu parent item is set in relation to the content in step 1:
i: The parent menu item if sibling selected
ii: The content menu item if child selected
d) The lorem lpsum prepopulates body / teaser

I've implemented this and I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for enhancing this work flow or know of existing modules that do the same thing.

Without menu admin permissions, the user has no way to modify menu fields in step 3, but they are still entered depending on the options they selected in step 2.

I developed this during the downtime with transfer of drupal.org from Drupal 5 to 6, and the search results for "node create" on Google were a bit too generic, thus the RFI.

Basically is a helper to developers that need to cut n' paste 100's pages into Drupal from PDFs, Word Docs, etc. (Formatting an input file actually takes more work c/f doing it directly in many instances)

If there is not another module for this I will contribute it, but the task seems so common, I find it strange that there is not already something that does it already.

Comments

I'm not 100% sure what you're

I'm not 100% sure what you're describing here. On my site I use two things for relating content:

1. Similar items module
2. A view that pulls out taxonomy terms and displays them in the sidebar next to the article

So you're reading an article that's been tagged with 'typography'. In the sidebar you'll see other articles that get drawn in via Similar Items, as well as articles that get drawn in because they're tagged with 'typography'.

I looked for a related content module for a long time and didn't find one. This was the best solution I could find to suit our needs.

hope this gives SOME help!

Related as per the menu structure

This is purely in relation to the menu system, namely entering 50+ items for the sites navigation which is fairly typical in my line of work (web developer). Thus my personal need for a tool to help in this task.

I've found it best to use content types as the primary classification of content, followed by tagging, then custom fields (manual or CCK), but for the site navigation, it's the menu system.

Alan Davison
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