Hi all.
Brand new here, looking for a suggestion on best practices. Here goes:
I'd like to create a page that shows a list of biographies for employees. I'd like to make this as easy as I can on the administrator by creating fields for each employee bio they want to display. I'm using CCK to do that. I created a new Content Type called employee bios and I'm hiding the title field with the auto_node module. I created new fields: Employee Name, Employee Position, Employee Certification. I left the body as is and instructed that this is where the bio should go. Its basically all set!
Here's my problem: How do I go about just displaying the employee bios on a page? I created a page for employees and added it to the primary navigation menu but I'm not totally sure how to get that page to display only my new content type there. I'm sure there's a way, and I could probably figure it out but I'd like to ask you all for best practice suggestions before I get too deep down this rabbit whole we call "experimentation"...
Any help or suggestions on how to get a page to display only the employee bios would be greatly appreciated. Or, if there is an even better way for me to set up a page like altogether that would be great, too.
Thanks a heap,
D. Lee
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Sounds like you are looking
Sounds like you are looking for the views module which allows you to make list of content in a variety of ways including the ability with filters to limit the content to a particular content type. To jump start the process you may want to add simple views which make it easy to create a view for a single content type.
Thanks for the reply. I'll
Thanks for the reply. I'll look into simple views. I was using views but man did they put in a ton of different classes. I just think its a waste of time adding them if you aren't going to use them. It makes the markup look so bad when-there-is-a-class-this-long-and-some-words-words-repeat-repeat-themselves It would be nice to be able to moderate what classes are and are not injected. Simple views looks more like what I'm interested in.
Note simple views "simply"
Note simple views "simply" creates views, views is still needed and generates the output.