I am a Drupal Newbie, and I don't even know how to word this correctly, please bear with me. I'm trying to make a menu system for houses that are for sale... so I created a menu block "Homes for Sale", then I have 3 main categories that link to nodes that are 3 different price ranges. Then the sub of those are the individual listings for each price range. How do I get previews/teasers to show up on the different main "price category" pages? Kind of like "promote to home page", but instead of them posting on the home page I want them to post or show up on those sub pricing pages....i hope this makes SOME sort of sense.... Is there something I'm missing, or is there a contribution to do that? Any help appreciated, thanks!

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nevets’s picture

It sounds like your menu reads
Homes for Sale
---- Price range 1
---- Price range 2
---- Price range 3

And you want each of the links Price range 1, 2 and 3 to show house in that range. If this is correct the following will do want you want.
Create a vocabulary for price ranges (under administer -> catogries, the tab 'add vocabulary'). When adding the vocabulary make sure you add it to the type of node you are using to construct the pages for each house.
Then on the page for administering catogories (administer -> catagories) you can add terms. So in this case you would add three terms, one for each price range, say something like $50,000 - $149,999.
Now when you add a new house listing assign it to one of the price ranges.
For the menu, assign each of the price range links to a path of the form taxonomy/term/N where N is the tid for the price range term you created earlier. You can find the tid by going back to administer -> catagories and for each term click on 'edit term', the url will end in admin/taxonomy/edit/term/N (N is the tid). So if the link reads admin/taxonomy/edit/term/8, then for the menu path, use taxonomy/term/8.

victorianut’s picture

Thanks a bunch! Haven't tried it yet, but after reading that over it sounds right :) I can't wait to try that out tonight, let you know how it works out, thanks!

Auke’s picture

Auke, CameroonTravel.info

I have the same problem. "When adding the vocabulary make sure you add it to the type of node you are using to construct the pages for each house." how do I do that?

And how do I change the background color? Where do I have to put my color code in (in my case ffcc00)?

Thanx

venkat-rk’s picture

What nevets meant is that when you create a vocabulary, make sure to enable the particular 'node' or 'content type' you will be using to create the entries/stories/postings for that vocabulary and its terms.

For example, you can use the blog type, story type or page type. You can see the default content types in a list on the page on which you create the vocabulary.

The configuration here is important because only then you will be able to associate your posting/content with the terms of that vocabulary.