By crick on

I would like to have a site with multiple sections similar to the "front page". Like how a user with permissions can create content and have it promoted to the front page. Then another user creates content and it also can be promoted to the front page. However, say I want to have a "news" page. I want a user to be able to create a news article and then have that article promoted to the 'news' page, so that I have a collection of news articles on that one page. And then also have an 'Events' page where content of type 'events' is collected in a list similar to how the news articles should be listed. do the book and story modules provide this functionality, I just don't see it?

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bugz_nz’s picture

bugz_nz commented

You can use the taxonomy system to do this. Create a vocab called news and then when a user adds content it can be placed in the news category.

You can then make a menu link which displays this taxonomy only.

lzfranc’s picture

lzfranc commented

you can create a new type content called "news" based on story node. See this link. It´s simple.

So, it will seem you are using a story node, but it will have a new name now ("news") and you can give permissions to some peoples to insert "news" content using a specific role. And you (as admin) can configure each "news" node created to be inserted in front page.

crick’s picture

crick commented

the taxonomy stuff was just what i needed. I used flexinode to create some new content types and then defined the vocab and term. I did have to go in and modify the flexinode module a tiny bit because I didn't like the way it printed the field labels. I got the News and Events sections up beautifully. thanks for the direction.