[support] News and Services in the menu

[Maurice Mengel]

I know only Drupal 6.X

Recepe 1: Without contrib modules:

   - tag blog posts with the taxonomy term "news"
   - tag blog posts with the taxonomy term "service"
   - [use a different node type if want different behavior. Blog has
   submitted by on by default and breadcrumb has the name of the author; story
   also has submitted on by default, page doesn't etc.]
   - link to /taxonomy/term/number or /taxonomy/term/number/all
   - create a role for news editor and one for service editor
   - use roles and node permissions to restrict publishing function to these
   roles.

Disadvantage: the behavior of the overview page (river of news) which shows
all news and service nodes is not very configurable. At least not without
further ado.

Recepe2: Other method: use views and node types
create node type "news" and "service" and use views2 to create an overview
page.

Advantage: no tags necessary. Simplifies input for your editors.
Disadvantage: you have install and learn contrib module views, but believe
me sooner or later you will want to do this!

If you have time, try both ways.

you might also want to look at one of my first sites
http://www.esem-music.org/ (recepe 1) and a later one of mine (
http://mimo-project.eu/, recepe 2)

best
Maurice



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Maurice Mengel
Music Archive
Ethnological Museum
National Museums in Berlin
http://www.ilkar.de
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello All:
> I just installed drupal and looking to get a website running. I still
> have a lot to learn. I want to avoid using any additional modules. One
> of the requirements is to create a menu item called "News". This will
> display a page of all the available news for the site. I like to have
> the ability to create a news page granted for news editors.
> Similarly I need a "Services" item. Using taxomony and content types,
> this should be possible. Right ?
> for example, I created an vocabulary called "News" with one term only
> "default" to be applied to a page. Is there a way to create content
> type for news only ? and How to add this to the menu ?
>
> Any ideas or tutorials about how to proceed ?
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