[support] News and Services in the menu

[Maurice Mengel]

I understand your idea to look at core modules only. I think this is a good
decision for learning purposes.On the other hand, drupal's wealth is its
community and the modules. My comments to between lines

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>
> page and story are fine. Maybe you want to rename them to news and service
or not. Or you write instructions for your editors in the descriptions of
these types.


>  > 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 ?
>
> yes, menu entries should point to this path. Check if this works without
clean urls. I am not sure. If not, you have no way to point to
overview-pages which list all nodes of this type. At least, I don't know
any.


> > 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.
>
> maybe you consider the frontpage functionality for this "block". Requires
workflow settings with individual postings,i.e. not 100% what you specified.
Frontpage is not very configurable without views. Alternative built-in block
"Recent activity" or something with a similar name. Both functions come with
core, if I remember correctly.



> 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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> >
> >
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