[support] News and Services in the menu

[Mansour Al Akeel]

Maurice:
Thank you. I appreciate the advice to play with both approachs. I
think this is the best way to understand the core modules, and their
limitations. I will use the first one, and keep in mind that I will
have to follow the second one at some point. But for now I'd rather do
the best I can with the core modules.

Here's what I understood between the comments.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Maurice Mengel
<mauricemengel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"
In other words I need to create a taxonomy vocabulary "ie. catgories"
and add the terms I need.

> [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.]
I am not concerned at this point about the bread crumbs. It's very
simple site. But to keep things as simple as possible (until I get the
picture), I like to use either Page or Story for the news. I
understand Blog entery may be more approperiate "I don't know why",
but If the two core content-types can do it, then this will be my
preference.

> link to /taxonomy/term/number or /taxonomy/term/number/all
I don't understand this part. Not yet there. But my hosting "Goddady"
dones't allow clean urls. It might be possible to work around, but not
a priority now. Do you mean here to add a menu item  with the path ?

> create a role for news editor and one for service editor
> use roles and node permissions to restrict publishing function to these
> roles.
I will look into the permissions when I construct the functionality I want.


>
> 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.

Basically the site is as simple as it gets. I am going to need the
(river of news page), and I don't know how further ado I need.
The second example you gave me is very close to what I need
http://mimo-project.eu/. It's simple, and that's all I want at this
point, as I am newbie to drupal. I may need to put a block on the
first page showing the latest 3-4 news headlines. And a similar block
for services .... etc.

the main items :  Home - News - services - About - contact.

Nice to have, a single content type "News" that will appear later for
the news editor.
Again, I truly appreciate the advice to use both ways, and I think I
will have to, and I have to learn the contrib module (I know now way
around), but coming from different cms background, I want to know what
does the basic offer, and how to get the most.

Thank you.

>
> 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
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Maurice Mengel
> Music Archive
> Ethnological Museum
> National Museums in Berlin
> http://www.ilkar.de
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>
> 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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