I'm setting up Drupal as a back-up portal for an e-zine and I'm new to Drupal, so please be patient and clear if responding - total newb here.
All new content is being thrown into a single place with the current configuration, and I need content in two specific areas to be separated:
Content (stories)
I need to classify all my content in sections (Business, Entertainment, Home & Family, etc.) so that a list of sections is displayed in the menu, then when selecting a section from the menu the index or previews of all the articles in the section should display in the body. This is to keep an online history of all articles published in my magazine.
I configured things so I can manually promote content to the main page, which will be pretty static. The active content should be in their proper sections and easily accessible from menu & submenu options in the left-hand menu. I would need to know how to create and use such section-specific content, in addition to its menu configuration.
Blogs
I see only one. I need one blog for each writer in the magazine (not every user in the portal). Also, I need the Blogs menu option to have a drop-down or sub-menu listing the blogs of all my writers, so users can access the one they want from the menu directly, follow up and keep in touch with their favourite writer(s).
I have a specific Collaborator profile that I assign to my writers and they have blog access enabled; everyone else is either admin, Registered User (general public) or has no access.
¿How do I configure specific, named blogs and menu access links for each?
Thank you in advance for any help provided on this.
Aco
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The classification is done
The classification is done through taxonomy (inherent in drupal) which can either be a drop down or a free form field. To display it, either create a link to that particular taxonomy's term and it'll show them all, or use Views to display that particular taxonomy the way you want it.
The blogs automatically can be created for each user (assuming you gave them the correct permission to create Blogs). You can use Views to show all users and just change the hyperlink to a custom output inserting "blogs" to it (click on an existing blog to see the URL structure)
For creating the menu, i'd again use Views and build a block listing all users, or you can do it with all recently posted blogs, or all new users, etc.
Thank you!
I will then have a look at the Taxonomy and Views documentation to figure that out, if I get stuck with it I'll bug you again. I appreciate the pointers, it does seem to be what I need all right :)
Thank you for your response!