<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Tod,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I create a specific vocabulary for the menu (e.g., "Navigation" or "On this site") and then the top-level terms in that vocabulary become the top-level menu items (e.g., "About", "News", "Downloads"). As you've discovered, you cannot assign nodes to the vocabulary root, only to terms. In case you haven't look at it, the taxonomy_menu module will automatically build menus from specified vocabularies. It does, however, leave you with a top level "Navigation" link that <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Must be clicked before the user sees the category (term) links</DIV><DIV>* Does not itself link to useful content, IMO (your choices are "Nothing assigned" message or a listing of every item assigned to every term in the vocabulary).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That said, it does automate the creation of a site menu system based on one or more vocabularies.</DIV><DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have just spent a week or so evaluating Drupal and find it to be a very mature, very comprehensive CMS.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I want to port a static html web site over to Drupal and I'd like to do it in such a way that moving forward I can take advantage of the features that Drupal provides.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>One of the things I have been struggling with is what to with its current static navigation menu.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I started by recreating that menu (list of single hyperlinks) using the core Drupal menu module.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>That works but I think as the site matures and I attract more viewers, and thereby over time more content, I'd probably want to go with the menu derived from a taxonomy.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I tried replicating the menu with the taxonomy_menu module.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I defined each category with one of the list menu items from above, defining no terms for now.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I did this because over time I expect the taxonomy to fill out and as this happens I could add the appropriate terms as necessary.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">When I was all done I had my menu re-created but I had no way no associate a particular node with each item.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Now I'm stuck.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Should I expect this to work, or is the only purpose of a category to provide a link to select that will expand and display its associated, selectable term item?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks - Tod</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[ Drupal support list | <A href="http://lists.drupal.org">http://lists.drupal.org</A>/ ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12px; 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