I love this module and I use it a lot. I've moved on now from banners for major sections of my site to banners for books and nodes.

Although I can get what I want for the user by creating an Area Banner menu and adding nodes to it using Menu Settings in node editing, at my end the number of items on the Area Banner page is getting huge and the page is getting long. One very handy solution to this problem would be an Area Banner field or field group in content editing. One very big advantage to this solution would be that users could assign area banners to their own nodes without accessing Area Banner administration.

It might be necessary to add some code to attach an area banner to child pages the way banners are now attached to urls lower in the menu tree. A temporary method is to create url aliases for nodes, but I'd like to see something slicker and more elegant for this fantastic module.

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Title: Area banner for books and nodes » Area banner for nodes

The way to get the effect I'm talking about without the feature I've requested is as follows.

    1. Install this patch by Jonah Ellison to get Area Banner to insert banners at all menu levels.
    2. Create an Area Banner menu at admin/build/menu/add.
    3. Create menu items for nodes to be grouped under.
    4. At admin/settings/area_banner, assign a banner image to each menu group. The banner image of the menu group will appear in the banner of each node assigned to the menu group.
    5. When creating a new node, use Menu Settings to add it as a menu item to the menu group in step 3.
    6. If desired, at admin/settings/area_banner, assign a banner image to the node.
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Title: Area banner for nodes » Area banner for books and nodes