By jknightsmith on

Okay, this may be a dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. What I'm trying to do is have seperate pages with multiple stories on them and these can be accessed via a link such as

website/news or
website/blog

all on the same site. Its only for one user so its probably pretty easy.

To see an example, look at
http://www.lullabot.com/work
http://www.lullabot.com/articles
http://www.lullabot.com/training

I think its got something to do with taxonomy and I've tried a few taxonomy modules, but I can't figure out how to do it.

Thanks for any help,

James

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anner commented

Have you tried the views module?

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DustyNine commented

Wow, thanks for that. I had a similar question and had assumed it would work a different way, but the views module seems to clean up all my questions too.

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jknightsmith commented

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll see how it goes.

I think that will work, but there must be a better way or quicker way than using the views module.

Would anyone else know how to do this in a quicker way.

Cheers

James

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DustyNine commented

From what I can tell, and I'm an utter newbie here too, there's no "quick" way to do things in Drupal. It's really powerful, but it always requires you to set certain things up first. A number of modules work in tandem with each other for some things that you might take for granted with other CMS scripts.

You can of course use URL aliases to do something similar, along with categories, but the Views module seems to be the 100% best way of doing all this. There's also probably some other ways, but I doubt they work as well as Views from what I've seen so far.

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jknightsmith commented

Okay,

To create a menu item that will show a series of stories, I did the following,

Create the category you want, eg sections or news
categories>add category
you can then select add term to add terms under this

To create the menus,

go to admin>menus
add menu item and for the path, put the taxonomy link, eg taxonomy_menu/4

I think thats it.

Cheers for the quick replies,

James

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jknightsmith commented

Okay,

I can't get it working now, so if anyone has any more help it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

James

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dahli.llama commented

What I did was use the Taxonomy Default, Flexinode, and the URL Alias (I may have the exact names mixed up here) modules. I created a "News" flexinode that has the default taxonomy tags of "news" and then simply changed the URL alias to that node (it's usually something like www.site.com/node/2 or whatever) to news. Then whenever you go to yoursite/news you'll just see the news listings. You'll also need to turn on the setting that changes the urls from ?q=node, to just node. I can't remember exactly where that is, but it's under the settings somewhere.