Can anyone recommend the best way to organize internal content? I have a site set up for my business and the core of it is informational. I would also like to use it for client records etc. Of course we do not want the client nodes to be public, so we have them set to unpublished. I tried using taxonomy, but it only works with published nodes.
What I want to do is have a page that has
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Client Search
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Business Residential
Where clicking on business link would return:
A B C D E F G H I J ...
Apple
A1 Rental
Ace Hardware
It would list the "A" businesses by default and then change to the "B" businesses when the "B" link was clicked. The letter selection menu would remain present regardless of which was selected.
It would also have a "Add New Business" link for if the search did not return the business you were looking for. This link would be always present and non conditional (to keep things simple). *Note* I know how to make this link, but it's URL will depend on how the content is organized to produce the above result... if I used a taxonomy vocabulary, it would link to the add term node for that vocab; however, I don't think taxonomy is a viable solution at this point.
Clicking on the link of an existing business would return the business information page that I have created a custom type for and have populated with current businesses...
I am fairly certain this can be accomplished with Drupal, but I'm not sure where to start or what modules would handle it best, so I'm looking for suggestions as to mods etc.
Once I have a starting point I am sure I can find tutorials or cobble my way through it :)
Thanks in advance!
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OK, so Taxonomy actually does
OK, so Taxonomy actually does show the content that is unpublished, just wont show containers as clickable navigation, that is what I need to fix i.e.:
-Clients (click and nothing listed under)
--Business(Click and nothing listed under) --Residential (Click and nothing listed under)
---Hardware Stores (Click and can view all listings) ----Doe (Click and can view all listings)
----Ace Hardware (Click takes you to node) ----John Doe (Click takes you to node)
----DiY (Click takes you to node) ----Jane Doe (Click takes you to node)
----Home Depot (Click takes you to node)
What I need it to do is when you click on "Clients" I need it to show the Categories "Business" and "Residential"
When I then click on "Business" I need it to show all Business categories i.e. "Hardware Stores", "Grocery Stores", "Restaurants", ect
and when I click on "Residential" I want to see "Doe", "Jones", "Smith", etc.
I think
Yiou need to make more user types. Then you give those users who can access the client data access to those records. There are many access contol modules like content access that will allow people only to see what they are allowed to see.
http://drupal.org/node/257453
Thanks for the reply! As I
Thanks for the reply! As I said in #2 it is no longer an issue with unpublished nodes, I just didn't know you had all the way to the deepest container depth to see the nodes; and I think that leaving the nodes unpublished is definitely the safest, I have seen too many Drupal sites cluttered with annon comment spam even when the site is set to only allow registered users access to post comments or when block anon links is enabled... the information I am saving is very sensitive, but I have to have access to it from the road, so this is the only solution I can think of.
Right now the only problem I am having is figuring out how to view the taxonomy navigation as described above....think of any of the ecommerce modules.. you click the root level 'store' and are taken to a page with 'lumber', 'hardware', 'fasteners', 'power tools'. These show up as clickable links, usually either graphic or text, and clicking on them takes you into that sub category, to reveal either products or additional sub categories. So say I click on 'power tools', i could see existing nodes under the power tools taxonomy.
On my site, clicking Clients (my equivilant to 'store') yeilds nothing but a blank page with the 'clients' heading. If I then return to the taxonomy page and click 'client's sub category 'business' it also yeilds nothing but a blank page with the heading 'business'. If I then return to the taxonomy main page and select 'Hardware stores' it yeilds a page listing all the nodes under the 'hardware stores' taxonomy on a page.
Basically it is , for me, currently functioning the same as if you had to select all the way to the deepest product level before you could see anything in a store... basically my current setup is functioning the same as if I had to select all the way down to 'socks' (hardware stores) on a store before finally seeing 'pink socks' (Ace) , 'blue socks' (DiY), etc, but if I clicked on 'store' (Clients), I'd see nothing, no categories, no sub categories...nothing, blank page...
Sorry for the long winded explanation, I don't know any other way to describe it :(
Ok so I've been looking at
Ok so I've been looking at this some more... and I think I've made this much more complicated than it needs to be. Lets keep it simple :)
New question:
How do I make a taxonomy page show it's sub-categories on it's page?
Might want to try this
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_context