Posted by jrockowitz on January 25, 2012 at 3:16pm
The Book helper module improves Drupal's core book module's functionality.
Drupal's Book module, included in core, does a great job at building custom site sections. The Book helper module enables additional features from Drupal's menu system to improve the ordering of a book's pages. This module also allows administrators to further customize a book's navigation block.
Features
- Enhances the book outline manager.
- Allows a book's link title to be different then the node's title. This behavior is similar the menu system's default behavior.
- Adds 'enable' checkbox (aka hidden) to the manage book outline page.
- Adds 'enable' checkbox (aka hidden) to the manage book outline page.
- Adds an 'Order' tab (node/%/order) to a book's main page.
- Adds 'administer own book outlines' permission for ordering books from a book's main page.
- Removes the 'Outline' tab from all nodes.
- Removes the book fieldset from node edit pages if the content type does not allowed book outlines.
- Removes 'add child page' and 'printer-friendly version'.
- Removes book navigation.
- Customizes visibility of a book's navigation elements.
- Automatically 'Create new book' for selected content types.
- Includes 'Book (inline) navigation' block that can be easily positioned after a node's content.
- Disables new revisions from being created when a book's node title is updated.
- Displays a warning when deleting a book page (node/%/delete) that has child pages.
- #283045: Allow top-level pages to be removed from books
- Keeps a book's main page's menu link active while navigating to lower-level book pages. (for D7 only)
Requirements
- Book (core): Allows users to structure site pages in a hierarchy or outline.
Similar modules
- Book made simple: Automatic creation of a book and simple creation of child pages.
- Menu Editor: Enhances the menu editing form with inline text fields for title, path and description, and provides placeholders for new items.
Known Issues
- #1420240: Integration with i18n - Help is welcome
Downloads
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Project Information
- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Reported installs: 737 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Downloads: 2,154
- Last modified: June 28, 2012
