By That70sHeidi on

I feel like a complete ass asking about this, but I've been through handbooks and how to's and keep coming back to this issue.

What I installed Drupal for was a simple way of presenting dozens of news articles for visitors to read. Easy, right? I mean, the search feature alone is a life saver.

But I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong in managing my content. First of all, I do understand that I add content as a "story" which is all well and good. No problem.

I submit three stories, but unless I want them all on my main page, which I do not, I have no way of finding them, do I?

How do I get a page that just LISTS the titles of the three stories for visitors to click on? There's no... indexing or table of contents type thing I'm missing? I don't grasp how it's content management when even I can't find my own content.

What I'd like, ideally, is for my main navigation block to read "Articles" then people click on that and see perhaps a two column list of article titles they can browse through. That'd be GREAT, since right now I can't even figure out how to set "Articles" to point to, well... anything!

The closest I've seen in surfing through Drupal documentation is something like Modules & Features page where there's a list of links. But... surely that's not hand coded? Each time you add a node/story!?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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slayerment’s picture

slayerment commented

What you need to use is the taxonomy module which is included in Drupal. You can create any type of categories you want and assign any node to any category. Once you have nodes assigned you go to www.yourdomain.com/taxonomy/term/5 or whatever term number it is and it will list all of your content with only the title and teaser. You can choose however you want to skin this as well. Enable the taxonomy module and go to admin/categories to set this stuff up. This is probably exactly what you are looking for.

Hope that helps.

That70sHeidi’s picture

That70sHeidi commented

See I knew it'd be something I'd looked at, tried to understand and passed over as something I wouldn't be using. THANK YOU! A thousand times thank you!!!

That also helps in eliminating the fact that offering Downloadable files on the site isn't done through taxonomy (I don't think?). I'm not sure HOW to do that aside from simply making a html list of links to video files and audio files and making it a static "page".... although it'd still have to be a vocabulary....

But yes, thank you again very much!!

edrupalec’s picture

edrupalec commented

Drupal ecommerce, at http://www.drupalecommerce.com
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/troubleshooting
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/modulegroupings
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/47vs46
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/compared

That70sHeidi’s picture

That70sHeidi commented

I'm not quite sure what your reply intends, but... thanks? I think? Ecommerce!?

styro’s picture

styro commented

the subject line was the extent of the content :)

A good example of the need for a signature separator, eg the standard email/usenet [dash][dash][space] as seen below or similar...

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That70sHeidi’s picture

That70sHeidi commented

Thank you! Just when I think I get a handle on software and how things work, I take on something new and the learning curve bites me in the ass again ;)

And yes, some ----- would be nice in sig files!

venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

- The Articles module
- The Node list module (since you want only the titles)
- The php snippets page in the handbook for listing just the titles
- Category module (oh, not an option since you use 4.6; otherwise, it would give you exactly what you want)

Sorry for not posting the links, but this should get you started.

That70sHeidi’s picture

That70sHeidi commented

Those were very helpful too!

- Article module - I have it, but unlike the Nodes module where it kinda tells you what to do AFTER, I'm not sure once I administer settings how to make it... go. ? Surely I have to take some line of code back to the Menu Item and edit the Path to point to... something. However the article module actually works. ?

- Nodelist module - quite brilliant, I was really impressed with this as well as the fact that he posts the actual lines that one would need to modify to make it "go" :) That's quite helpful for those of us starting out. The problem I'm up against with this module is the fact that it will list by alphabet. Is there a way to list it by date? Instead of "O" and "S" have it be "February" and "March" and so on based on date I put in when creating the story nodes? Ideally if it could completely sort by node DATE, down to the hour if possible, that would be perfect. That's exactly what I'll need. But I'm afraid to tinker too much because I'm really still not on solid ground as to what I'm DOING with Drupal yet.

- php snippets - looked neat, but it's one of those things, again, I'm not sure which parts to tinker with. Somehow I got it to list and sublist just ITSELF over a few times. Hah. Um, damn. (I was using "Creating a paged list of nodes from a taxonomy category, with teasers.") When I'm done with dinner and have a drinkie poo in hand, I'll be checking out "Display a list of (x) node titles and links to the full node from multiple taxonomy/category terms" as well.

The Nodelist one though, that's a keeper, if I could just tweak it. I know the answer will be something achingly simple, as it always seems to be.

Thank you for your continuing help, everyone! Eventually this article archive will be brilliant, I KNOW IT. I just have to get there....

somebodysysop’s picture

somebodysysop commented

With respect to your post on listing articles, could you tell uswhat you finally did? Also, could you give us your url so I can see the results. I need to do the same exact thing with hundreds of articles and dozens of categories.

Thanks!

-ron

venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

You can do all this and more with the powerful Views module. However, please read the Views handbook thoroughly before attempting to use it:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/views

harriska2’s picture

harriska2 commented

I posted somewhere else but it bears repeating - that is an amazing, turnkey, idiot proof module.

Thanks a ton!

A very poor but developing example
http://teachernotes.org/kathy/links

somebodysysop’s picture

somebodysysop commented

I've installed Views module and actually have created two lists. Works as advertised.

However, a list I want to create is a list of URLs (links to other websites). Right now, using the default Views setup explained in 20 Steps to Views Happiness, I get a list of only the link titles. A user has to click on the title, which takes him to the node page, where there is a link to go to the outside URL.

My question is: Is there a way to take out this extra step? Either list the link title and url in the view, or be able to somehow associate the link url with the title (as opposed to it going to the Drupal page for that content).

Does this make sense? In otherwords, how do I get it to work like a regular Links page?

Thanks.

-ron

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That70sHeidi commented

Am I correct in understanding that this is for the 4.7 drupal? I was hoping not to have to manually upgrade any time soon, but it looks like I have no choice at this rate. I can't figure out how to tweak NodeList module (if you even CAN, what do I know), and I really really really want to present my archive to the team and their site admin in the next few days so it's gotta be... done.

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jweiss commented

I believe you're correct in that if you want to use the views module you'll need to upgrade. But the article module or one of the others mentioned should work for 4.6

-jeremy