[support] Basic help getting started

[Metzler, David]

I've been dialoging with someone else outside of this list.  I've
figured out two ways to do this automatically that I thought I'd share: 

Enable the "book Navigation Block" to generate your navigation based on
book navigation menus.   Non-book node types can be assigned to the book
navigation menus using the "Outline tab" when you publish the content.
Or you can just build the navigation by making most of your pages book
pages.  

Use the taxonomy_menu module to have menus generated based on
"categories" you assign to content as you publish the content.  Each
menu is then a list of nodes/teasers based on categories.  The content
can show up in mutiple places this way.  

I'll be really interested to explore menus on the fly in Drupal 4.7.  By
the by anyone heard of an official release date?  I've been watching the
drupal site with baited breath. :) 

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Flatt
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:23 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Basic help getting started

On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:30, Bruce Whealton wrote:
>
>   Here's another question relating to the prior posts I had on 
> creating content and adding it to a menu.  I thought that there was a 
> way to have a story, page, book page, etc when you publish it select 
> where it should appear on the menu, i.e. with parent Navigation or 
> parent mycustom menu/mysubmenu etc.  Can that be done and how?

It is not automatic, but you can create menu and submenu items like you
are asking about.  First you have to make sure the Menu module is
enabled in admin/modules.  Next go to admin/menu and go to town.  You
can add menu items to the main Navigation menu, or add a separate menu.
If you add a new menu, you'll need to go to admin/block to show it.

>   Then the question that follows is what I think is already answered 
> for me sufficiently.  But, I was planning to create a site with Drupal

> for an Architectural firm.  The idea was to give them a way to 
> maintain the site, update it, etc. without me when I finish.  I'm not 
> assuming the customer can do any programming or web design.  That can 
> and has been done for companies/customers, with Drupal, correct?  Only

> when certain administrative tasks are required would they need to call

> me again.  That's reasonable to do with Drupal, correct? Thanks,

Yes, that is correct.

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