By Stomper on

Hi all.

New to Drupal. I am running Drupal 5.15 and Zen, and am trying to do some customizing of the navigation bar (block).

I am trying to make a primary link on the navigation bar called "Community", and within that I would like to be able to access the forum (Advanced Forum), Simple Questions/Answers (Answers Module) and a form. Community would be the primary link, and the forum, questions/answers and form would be the secondary links.

Community:

> Forum

> Answers

> Form

I tried messing around with the primary links within menu (via administer). I managed to place secondary links within "Community" based on the hierarchy I want but when I click on "Community, " I get "Page cannot be found." Also the questions/answer (Answers) are by default displayed on the "home page."

Ideally what I would like to see is to have "Community" be a page that contains direct links to the forum, question/answers and form.
This seems like a really simple Drupal function that I can't seem to figure out.

Any help appreciated

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Ortaga commented

Hi Stomper
Can you send me a link to your site so I can see if its an obvious problem.

As far as I can make out form your post you my need to do the following:
Go to the admin/build/menu.
There you will see a list of the pages you have created "Community" and so on.
Click the edit link for the page Community. You will see an option called "Expanded" select that and submit the changes.
This means that when the Community page has links from it "children" they should appear.

To make other pages link from the Community page:
Go to Create content
Give it a title
Go down to "Menu settings" and from the Parent item dropdown select Community. Then the new page your creating will link from the Community link.

Also: When you are creating new pages, under the heading "Publishing options" make sure to "Promoted to front page" is NOT selected.
If it is selected it will appear on the front page.

Ortaga

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Stomper commented

Ortago

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I am developing my website on a local host so it doesn't really have a URL at the moment.

I was able to pretty much get what I want except one thing.

I have added a page entitled "Community" within the Primary Links. The page has a description of each community tool (forum, simple question/answer and a form). My question is how do I link from the say "Forum" to the forum itself?

I also managed to get rid of the poll and simple question/answer from the front page following your guide. Thanks.

___________________________________________________________________________________________

COMMUNITY

Forum < ------------(create clickable link to advanced forum)
(description) the forum is place where people can socialize ....

Simple Question/Answer <-------------(create clickable link to simple question/answer)
(description) here you can ask questions that members can help answer.....

Form<----------------(create clickable link to form (form not yet created))
(description) we need your help to fill up our database, please fill out the form and.....

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Thanks

Stomper

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Ortaga commented

Hi Stomper
When you enable the forums in your drupal site it will create a link to the main forums the link is called "Forum"
So if you go to admin/build/menu-customize/navigation you will see the Forum link.
Simply click edit for the forum link and change the parent item to whatever you want.

Ortaga