By sTimple-1 on

I want a page where I can review products. something like: price; usability; graphics; overall;. With a user review section on the same page, so users can review products in the same format but will be posted on a different page. Please someone give me an outline to achieving this..??

Ive spent days doing cck, views, panels tutorials. With Drupal it just seems really complex to get simple ideas to reality.

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vm commented

create a content type called product
add all fields to this content type that involve the product

That is ultimately your first step.

Part of the issue here will be how will you be arranging your taxonomy, for categorizing and organzing these products?
you can then build a review content type and use something like views_attach.module or node referrence to referrence the products from the reviews.

you can then build views with the views.module that will list the products and list the reviews and so on so forth.

What you seem to think is simple can be done but simple is relative to a persons skillset. Standard HTML is simple for many but more complex for others. There is a learning curve to everything not just drupal.

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sTimple-1 commented

Thanks heaps.

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Stew-bee commented

I too am a newbie to Drupal , I have been following your post http://drupal.org/node/502640, Drupal can be daunting at times. But I found the book "Using Drupal" ,ISBN-13: 978-0596515805, to be very useful. It cuts the clutter, and gives a road map on how complete real world projects, what is easy and what is harder. Chapter 4 of the book "Product Reviews" sounds pretty close to your project. You might want to check it out

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musicalmissionary commented

I just completed Chapter 4 of Using Drupal and it was very easy to follow, especially if you want to feature Amazon products as I do. But I was wondering, what is the easiest way to add a block of text to the top of a View page? I created a block view of the same content but how do I make that block only show up on a specific page?

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vm commented

please don't hijack threads with your own questions that have nothing to do with the original post.

block visibility is handled in the eidt block screen
administer -> blocks
edit the block in question
set the block visibility based on the instructions presented on that screen

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sTimple-1 commented

hey. thanks alot for that. Ive been looking through "Using Drupal" doing the case studies and it really has helped a million. Appreciate that direction.