By clandmeter on

Hi,

I'm a little new to drupal so im still learing by trial and error.
I am create a new site which should host downloads and these downloads should be categorized.

I have installed the following modules:

filemanager and attachement: to upload files (if you know a beter module please let me know)
cck: to create a custom node only to create downloads.
views: to create a listing by taxonomy term.

I would like a structure like:

Downloads +
-Drivers
-Manuals
-blabla...

I have created the custom node and the vocabulary downloads and created the terms drivers manuals....
With views i made a view for drivers, manuals... and gave them an url and a menu item.
Now to group these menu items into downloads i have to create another menu items called downloads and add a url to it (can i not just create a menu item which is empthy, just so it can hold child items without url?).
Because i couldnt find a way to do what i wanted to do above i tried to create another view for downloads. This should list drivers manuals.... but when i try to create such a view it will show all taxanomy terms (multiple times drivers and manuals) instead of just a list of terms in that vocabulary.

Is there any way i could create what i want?

TIA

Carlo

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

satori1984’s picture

satori1984 commented

How about if you just create a page node (maybe disable commenting) called "Downloads", containing links to the various views, and a bit of "enduser info" for each link.

Then you create a menu item called "Downloads", linking to the page you just created, and give it some child menu items for each different view.

cmsproducer’s picture

cmsproducer commented

There is a module called Disk Node that is specifically made for containing downloadables.
Take a look and let's know if it's satisfying - otherwise we can give other recommendations.
http://drupal.org/node/43600

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clandmeter’s picture

clandmeter commented

Thanks for your comments.

Creating a page node could work and would be a solution but i would prefer to have this page dynamicly craeted when I add new terms. I found a solution here: http://drupal.org/node/31536 I think i could use this for what i want.

I tried disknode before but haven't looked into it anymore. I did just now and it looks interesting and could replace the use of cck to create custom download nodes and also has some more options to also be able to add downloads which already exist on the server (i could upload files via ftp and then add them as download). Litle question regarding disknode, when i delete a node it will not delete the file associated with the node. Is there a solution for this?

carlo