[support] Porting from Static Menu to Taxonomy Question

[Ken Dow]

Hi Tod,

I create a specific vocabulary for the menu (e.g., "Navigation" or  
"On this site") and then the top-level terms in that vocabulary  
become the top-level menu items (e.g., "About", "News", "Downloads").  
As you've discovered, you cannot assign nodes to the vocabulary root,  
only to terms. In case you haven't look at it, the taxonomy_menu  
module will automatically build menus from specified vocabularies. It  
does, however, leave you with a top level "Navigation" link that

* Must be clicked before the user sees the category (term) links
* Does not itself link to useful content, IMO (your choices are  
"Nothing assigned" message or a listing of every item assigned to  
every term in the vocabulary).

That said, it does automate the creation of a site menu system based  
on one or more vocabularies.

On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:

> I have just spent a week or so evaluating Drupal and find it to be  
> a very mature, very comprehensive CMS.
>
> I want to port a static html web site over to Drupal and I'd like  
> to do it in such a way that moving forward I can take advantage of  
> the features that Drupal provides.  One of the things I have been  
> struggling with is what to with its current static navigation menu.
>
> I started by recreating that menu (list of single hyperlinks) using  
> the core Drupal menu module.  That works but I think as the site  
> matures and I attract more viewers, and thereby over time more  
> content, I'd probably want to go with the menu derived from a  
> taxonomy.
>
> I tried replicating the menu with the taxonomy_menu module.  I  
> defined each category with one of the list menu items from above,  
> defining no terms for now.  I did this because over time I expect  
> the taxonomy to fill out and as this happens I could add the  
> appropriate terms as necessary.
>
> When I was all done I had my menu re-created but I had no way no  
> associate a particular node with each item.  Now I'm stuck.
>
> Should I expect this to work, or is the only purpose of a category  
> to provide a link to select that will expand and display its  
> associated, selectable term item?
>
> Thanks - Tod
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