By rollacoast on

I'm still struggling up the steep learning slope with Drupal but really glad I made the decision to use it above the alternatives. It's also given me the prod I needed to move from ASP to PHP.

Anyway I have a question which maybe simply answered or (as I suspect) may involve a bit of PHPing. What I want is to have a page like the front page. Let's call it a 'second page'. On this page I wish to display Stories which have been published but not promoted to the front page. Ideally I would like to be able to have a check box similar to Promote to Front Page which says 'Promote to Second Page'. Even more ideally I would like to be able to set up any number of these pages.

It may be that Drupal already allows one to do this but as a bit of a newbie I can't find how to do it.

TIA

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Morgenstern’s picture

Morgenstern commented

Hi,

Just add a new vocabulary in your taxonomy called "publishing" having the terms 'promote to second page', 'promote to ... page' etc. Then you can access each of these "pages" via ?q=taxonomy/term/TID (replace TID with the according term id).

ciao,
Morgenstern

mooffie’s picture

mooffie commented

Morgenstern was quicker than me, but it won't hurt if I too post what I wrote -- same thing, different words.

There are several methods to achieve this.

A common one is to define a "Sections" vocabulary, and in it a term for each section in your site: News, Sports, Fashion (I prefer not to name them "first page", "second page" and "third page" because these are not semantic names). When you enter a node (aka a "story") you tag it with one of these term.

You then constuct the three URLs that show each of the sections ("section" being a set of nodes tagged with a specific term), and add them to your navigation menu.

techczech’s picture

techczech commented

Other ways to achieve this is with views - really depends on exactly what you need. You might also want to have a look at the workflow and actions modules to manage more complicated routes to promotion.

rollacoast’s picture

rollacoast commented

Thanks for the suggestions. Sounds like this will do what I need and will also investigate Views.

Cheers.