I was just converted over from Joomla and I'm trying to reconstruct my web site. Mainly right now what im running into is figuring out "content" I want to create content similar to the articles, category, and sections in joomla. Or basically just constructing content into categories and subcategories that can be summoned to make up the content of a page. For example.. If I were saleing cars I might break up inventory into "new" and "used" than further into other subcategories. On the website I might want two links to start, one for "new" and one for "used" that when chosen will display a catalog looking page with these listings with only "teaser" information that you can further reduce results based of subcategories and than click on of the listings in order to view the "full details" or essentially the items corresponding page.
I would further like to for each content item be able to specify what information for each item is shown in the category view vs the item view...
Any help understanding how to do this in Drupal is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Hi, what you need to do is
Hi, what you need to do is get a hold of the CCK and Views2 Modules and have a good play, then come back here and ask for help with specifics.
I do have CCK but I will take
I do have CCK but I will take a look at views2 thank you for the suggestion.
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It will probably take a bit
It will probably take a bit of time to get your head round it all, but it is well worth the effort!
Oh, and also take a look at the hierarchical select module.
Ok so im starting to
Ok so im starting to understand that the taxonomy is where I am going to define categories I think. From there I have views display a certain term.. but I'm not seeing how in all this where I can define 2 separate views for one piece of content with out creating two separate pieces of content and linking them.
As in my example previously where I would like a condensed view of an item on the category or "list" page whereas someone will click this item to view the full page of information for each listing.
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Yep you got it, taxonomy is
Yep you got it, taxonomy is your friend. Ok, I am not 100% sure what you mean by a "condensed view" my guess would be a structured Vocabulary (that's taxonomy again!) and a view that accepts arguments.
Ill take a look at structured
Ill take a look at structured vocab. What I mean though is the difference, as with a blog, of a "intro text" and "full view". generally in a blog the full detail view is opened with a "read more..." link. So what I am looking to do is similar in that I would like the two separate views but with the layout different on the category page.
Does that make sence?
So instead of something like... http://blog.chadmkidner.com
Id like something like... http://www.homedecorators.com/Furniture/Living_Room/
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Good examples! yeah it does
Good examples! yeah it does make sense. for something like http://www.homedecorators.com/Furniture/Living_Room/ that's a views2 grid display, and a nice one at that. So theming is going to come into play here.
Wow kk i'm makin progress :)
Wow kk i'm makin progress :) I think I got most of this figured out but what is the difference what asking for term ID vs term name?? I put all the values in the way I think it should be and I keep getting 404 error for the page I create using "views".
Right now I have it configed like so.. I have Vocab name "projects" and two terms defined as "working projects" and "completed projects". I have the arguments on views as termID for "Projects" ...but getting error. Ideas?
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You're on the right track,
You're on the right track, Term ID funnily enough is the ID of the term! So I'm sure you can guess what the Term name is...
Anyway, what errors are you getting ?
well i think i figured out
well i think i figured out what I needed on this for now. I hammered away changing variables. Don't know that I fully grasp what I did lol but its working for now :) Thanks for all the help.
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