By cach0rr0 on

After failed attempts at RTFM'ing, banging my head over this...

I guess rather than give the whole long story on everything I've tried, I'll list my objective. I'm very, very new to drupal, so let me offer that disclaimer as well.

SO...

I'm basically trying to get my drupal site laid out in a manner similar to slashdot (slashdot.org rather). Not aesthetically, just navigationally.

For example, I might have primary links of: IT, General, Linux, Windows, Apple

if you look at slashdot, you'll notice the day's top stories are promoted to its front page.
however, if you click say...Apple...it lists numerous stories related to apple.

Within the drupal framework, how would one add content in such a manner? Say i have a page for "Apple". I have a primary link called "Mac" pointing to that page. If I do create content ~> story, and set the story's parent container to be Primary Links~>Mac...it disappears into never-never land. What i *want*, is for it to appear atop the "Apple" page, and to basically be able to say "make this story, and show it and any previous Apple stories, whenever i click on the 'Apple' primary link".

In the same way as slashdot, whereby when you go to the main page, you see the day's stories....but when you click on a particular category, such as Apple, you're presented with a list of story snippets...not just one static page. As it is now, I have one static page, and although I've created a new page with a parent container of the relevant primary link, it only shows me that one static page that the primary link points at.

Funny thing is, I've looked at the attached_node module, and really...that seems to describe exactly what I'd be looking to do, but if I add:

[node:19]

you literally see "[node:19]" and not the page/story teaser as I'd hoped. input format is set to filtered html.

Am I going about this all the wrong way, or is there a bit of documentation I could read to get better acquainted with this? I'm happy to hush and read a manual, I just haven't been able to find the proper spot to looking. Have googled, search through these forums...for about the past 2 weeks, and am now at the point of desperation I reckon.

Any and all help would be highly, highly appreciated.

-Chris

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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cach0rr0 commented

got the attached_node piece working, though the aesthetics of it im still getting my head around.

would be nice if it were possible to make it look a bit more slashdot-ish.

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DL commented

The menu you mentioned (Apple) are categories. You can create your own category by going to admin> categories > add vocabulary (example Mac). Each time you create content and choose Mac as your category, the content will be diplayed along with all the content chosen with Mac category. Then set your primary links by going to admin> menu and at the bottom of the page you will see primary links, click add item and add Mac as part of your Primary links. So now you have a link to Mac. Set the number of content to be displayed on a page and teaser length by going to admin> settings> posts and set the numbers accordingly. Now create contents and choose Mac as category and see what happens. Hope that will help.

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cach0rr0 commented

awesome, many many MANY thinks.

this has had the handful of buddies I have working on this and myself stumped for a good bit. I'm still getting the hang of this, so the help is greatly appreciated. Just terminology really, which I suppose takes some time to get used to.

Thanks again!

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DL commented

glad to help. pay it forward :-)

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silverguy commented

This REALLY helped however I kept getting hung up where to point the link for the Menu section Primary Link (the first must enter item) and finally used taxonomy/term/2 which takes you there. Additionally created a URL alias and then pointed the Primary link there instead.