By dancriel on

Hi,

Totally new to Drupal, using version 6. Trying to learn enough to set up a custom site.

I'd like to be able to have a menu system that will change dynamically based on my content. For example, if I create a new content type called Dog using CCK I'd like to be able to have a menu item called "Dogs" that dynamically lists all content of type 'Dog', so after adding 3 dogs I'd have

Dogs:
- Astro
- Sparky
- George

And if I added another Dog entry that dog's name would automatically appear in the menu.

Is there a module that can help me with this? Am I missing something in the core features?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

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Comments

vm’s picture

vm commented

organize your content using taxonomy then list them using views.module or using a module like taxononmy menu module or one of the other modules available that deal with taxonomy

dancriel’s picture

dancriel commented

Thanks for your reply VM.

The taxonomy menu module isn't quite doing what I want. It's displaying my vocabulary title as a heading with the terms in an unordered list underneath. I want it to show the actual content items. So, I'm getting this:

Categories
- Dogs
- Widgets

When I want this:

Dogs
- Rex
- Fido
Widgets
- WidgA
- WidgB

Am I using taxonomy menu correctly or should I look to a different module?

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mtsanford commented

Any time I see a post like "how do I make the menu do XYZ", have one piece of advice: STOP. Finessing the menu system into getting it to do what you want is not worth the trouble, IMO.

Just install Views module, and make a block display view that shows the tiles of your Dog nodes that link to nodes.

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PBHQ commented

I was just searching the forums and came across your post - This advice will save me alot of time. Haha.