By ostau on

Hi there,

I have to switch from an old CMS to a new one. In Drupal finally I found almost everything I need. The only thing that drives me crazy is the following:

My stories have an assignment to two taxonomies (one for the regional and one for the thematic categorization).
I have 200 regions and 10 thematic cat´s.
With CCk, Views 3 and panel I build a system, which displays my stories exactly as I want. My view takes two args (%1 = region ID, %2 = thematic ID).
I built a menu (in fact 9 menues), which passes the region ID to the view. So I get all stories from the selected region, regardless of their thematic cat. (beitraege/1 - where beitraege is the name of my view) shows all stories of Burgenland.
To filter all stories (e.g. personal stories) of a region, I build another menue, which passes two args to the view (beitrage/1/11). 1 = Burgenland, 11 = personal. Works great.
Now the problem: it seems, I have to build 200 thematic menues, because I didn´t find a way to replace the first parameter in beitraege/1/11 by a variable (e.g. %regionID). And every time, when I add a thematic item I have to edit 200 menues?
I think there must be a solution for it out of the box, because the task is not that unique. But I´m to stupid to see or find it.

Thanks in advance for your help, Oskar

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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WorldFallz commented

If I understand what you're trying to do correctly, I think the http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu might be useful.

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ostau commented

Hi WorldFallz,

thanks for the quick answer. It´s not exactly the way I wanted to setup my site (I wanted two different menus in different blocks, not one hughe menu), but it seems, it´s a possible work around and a good starting point. The only problem I have is that the documentation of the module is almost not existent. I diggered for hours to find any example how to set up the hierarchial menu (which settings in wich taxonomy?) with no result. The video shows version 3 which is unstable. Do you have any link, where I can get further infos?

Here in detail what I want to achive: Taxonomy 1 has entries Burgenland, Kärnten, Niederösterreich. Taxonomy 2 has entries Amtliches, Privates, Geschäftliches.

The menue should look like

Burgenland -> Beitraege/burgenland/all
-Amtiches -> Beitraege/burgenland/Amtliches
-Privates -> Beitraege/burgenland/Privates
-Geschäftliches -> Beitraege/burgenland/Geschäftliches
Kärnten -> Beitraege/kärnten/all
-Amtiches .....
-Privates .....
-Geschäftliches .....
Niederösterreich .....
-Amtiches .....
-Privates .....
-Geschäftliches .....

Thanks, Oskar