By sej123 on

I am trying to create a site with following design with 3-column layout:

I want all the links for chapter 1, chapter 2, and so on of a book on left-sidebar block. And, on clicking the link, the relative content is displayed in the center content region, keeping the left sidebar as is.

One way is to create a block and than enable it for all the chapter-pages of that particular book. But the problem is, I have got 100 + such books and each book has more than 10 chapters. Isn't there any generalized way to do this?

I have researched a lot but am not able to find an appropriate solution.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

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dman’s picture

dman commented

menu_block_split or similar.
maybe.

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

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sej123 commented

Do I have to create 100s of blocks and set their visibility to the respective bookpages?

Please guide!

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i-sibbot commented

http://drupal.org/node/284

The Book module automatically generates a contents page for each book. However, if the books on your site are complex, you may find that you need additional navigational aids beyond the table of contents and the previous/next/up links for users to understand where they are in your book. One navigational aid you can use is the book navigation block, which you can enable on the blocks page (administer >> site building >> blocks). Enabling this block will turn on a menu that shows where the user is in your book; the menu is only visible when viewing the book.

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sej123 commented

Thanks a lot!
I was really not aware of the book navigation block!!
Great Thanks!:)

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i-sibbot commented

My pleasure! TBH, most of the time, Drupal will give you what you want but with a little effort involved for payment :)