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Taxonomy Suggestions

Drupalace — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:24:47 -0700

Taxonomy suggestions

You can create whatever Terms you can think of a use for, grouped into whatever Vocabularies you like. There are infinite possibilities – which always makes it hard to get started.

General strategy

It's difficult to immediately envision all the ways to set up your taxonomy, and all the possibilities for using it. Here's a general suggestion for starting out:

How to export and import Book nodes?

Drupalace — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:38:32 -0700

I wanted to move a Book from one site to another. I see a couple of modules that look up to the task – Book Import and Export DocBook – but they're for 4.x only. For 5.x, I see Export DXML. Yet the scant description online (http://drupal.org/project/export_dxml) says that Book Import (the 4.x module) is used to then import the exported content. Hmm.

Testing Hidden Node Title

Drupalace — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:59:54 -0700

This is a page I'm creating to test the technique for hiding a node title, given at How to hide a node title?

This page's title is "Testing Hidden Node Title", but you should see it without any title appearing in the usual place.

Creating a page from a List of Nodes

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:01 -0700

You'll often want to make a page not from a single node, but from a list of several nodes. I haven't yet come across a technical Drupal word for such a page, so I'll call it a 'node-list page'.

Creating a page from a Single Node

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:42:51 -0700

There's not much to cover here. As already discussed, when you create a node, Drupal automatically gives it a path (like node/53), or you can give it a path yourself (like product_catalog).

To create a page from that node, then, you don't really need to do anything special. Just go to the node's path (presumably via a menu item you've created for the purpose), and Drupal will whip up a page centered around that node, surrounded by the blocks, graphical elements, footer, and other accountrements you've set up for the site.

That's it!

Placing Content on pages

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:32:17 -0700

First, a note:

Following common writing practice, I'm capitalizing words in the titles of EDAM pages. But I leave "pages" uncapitalized in this page's title, to avoid confusion. This page is about placing content on any web page (uncapitalized, generic meaning), and isn't specifically about the node type that Drupal calls Page (which I capitalize).

End note.

Here I'll cover how to place your nodes – your Story nodes, Page nodes, Blog Entry nodes etc. – onto a page in your site.

Placing Menus on Your Pages

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:05:27 -0800

-- coming later --

Creating Menu Items on the Fly

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:03:58 -0800

The Menus administration form is one place where you can create menu items (see Working with Menus: Administration Page).

There's another way to create a menu item: when you create or edit a node, you can create a menu item for it on the fly.

For example, you create a node with company information, and want a link to that node to appear in a menu called 'site menu'. You could create the node, head to the Menus administration form, and create a new menu item within the menu called 'site menu'.

Working with Menus: Administration Form

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:01:14 -0800

Menus are the key to your site – they're the way by which visitors get at your content.

A menu is a list of links to content. Menus can appear in a horizontal line at the top of your pages, as with many web site designs. Or they can appear along the sides in blocks, another common design.

A specific link in a menu – a "menu item" – can link to a specific node. Or, calling on the full power of the database behind your site, it can pull up a list of nodes based on some criterion.

Content Paths and URLs

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:47:37 -0800

How do people get from one page on your site to another? Links, links, links!

But what is a link? It's just an instruction for the browser to jump from the current page address, to a new page address.

You can create links to any page whose address you know. So how to you find, or create, the address for a page? If you want to know, here's your guide. (And if you already know the address for your target page, and are ready to create a link to it, jump ahead to Creating Links.)