Usecase: Creating live menus via view on nodes
boabjohn - September 7, 2009 - 02:04
| Project: | Menu Node Views |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
G'Day, and apologies if I've missed the basic usecase for this module.
1. On a site with ~30 nodes of a specific type (eg, projects), I want to create a View that just provides a menu for these nodes. So when projects are added or titles changed, the menu for Projects changes also.
I expected to create a new menu view and be able to filter on various node parameters and cck fields in order to create a cohort of nid values that would then populate the mid<>nid table.
2. Installed the module, created a new menu tree view, and tried to set up filters...but all the attributes are related to menus, not nodes.
So I think I've got this module upside down to its purpose, yes?
Thanks for any clarity...
#1
Either that, or the functionality you want does not exist yet.
Can you export your View and attach it here?
#2
Am I mistaken to think you could do this without this module?
- Create a node-view
- Set the filters as preferred [node: type = Projects] [content: FIELD NAME = VARIABLE] etc
- And under fields [node: Title (Link this field to its node)]
- Add a block display and assign to a region
This module is to add filters and such based on the fact that a node already has been assigned to a menu via menu.module. You haven't done that if I'm not mistaken and don't plan to, you want to auto-create a menu with Views from what I gather.
If I understand it wrong then forget about this message :)
Cheers
#3
You are creating a navigation block using nodes.
A menu is a different structure. Not all menu items are nodes. This module is for building Views based on the menu structure.
You don't need this module, as far as I can tell.