[support] how to make a taxonomy term be a menu item?

[adept techlists - kazar]

> 	Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
> June 22, 2011 3:03 PM
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> It may simply be a caching issue both Drupal and your browser caches.

Thanks Earnie. But I'm not clear on what "it" is? What may simply be a 
caching issue -- the failure of D7 to make the menu item? If that's what 
you meant, the menu item is definitely not there, have cleared cache 
several times, both Drupal and browser.


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> 	adept techlists - kazar <mailto:techlists at ade.pt>
> June 22, 2011 8:36 AM
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> I should have specified: Drupal 7
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> 	adept techlists - kazar <mailto:techlists at ade.pt>
> June 22, 2011 8:31 AM
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> If someone can just point me to a docs page that explains this clearly
> I'd appreciate it. This is for a volunteer project and i'm not posing as
> a drupal dev, i am just trying to get a site's features fleshed out (see
> www.microtopianyc.org) and am so far behind on my personal life I could
> jump.
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> If there is no docs page on this, a short explanation would do and would
> save my day. Here goes:
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> -- I am using Superfish menus (Danland theme). I have an Events menu
> item that has Upcoming Events and Past Events child menu items.
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> -- I have created a vocab called Events with two terms: Upcoming Events
> and Past Events
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> -- for each term I have specified a URL: upcoming events is at
> "events/upcoming" and past events term is at "events/past"
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> -- i go into Menus and try adding a submenu under Events with the url
> "events/past" for past events, for example, and click add. But no menu
> item is created and no error is reported.
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> HELP.
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> What I'm trying to do is to display upcoming events under the Upcoming
> Events menu item, and to display past Events under the Past Events menu
> item.
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> Upcoming events should be sorted in date order, Past Events should be
> sorted in descending date order. Since the Date module seems to be in
> bad shape (I tried using it but it blew up my sandbox and I got no
> response to the issue I posted) I will use the publication date as a
> fake way of sorting the events the way I want them.
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> I tried using Views but it does not seem I can create a view for a
> specific term, only for a whole vocabulary not a specific *term*.
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> I am quite savvy & techie, just not a drupal admin/dev! I just need to
> be told or shown once and i'll get it.
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> Thanks in advance if anyone can bail me out here.
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> kazar
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