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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">I'm working on a site that is going
to be a content driven site with multiple contributors, and I'm trying
to figure out the best way to give the editors control over the
placement of content. We've created a basic panels page with nine
panes that will be used on all pages. There will be a separate panel
page with the same structure for the front page. There is a vocabulary
(called Content for now) that will be used to tag all Article (a custom
content type) nodes. The Content vocabulary has three top level terms,
and then multiple terms under each of those. What we would like to do
is use the panel page for each second level term, where the three top
level terms will be drop down menus with the second level items as menu
items. The content displayed in the panes would be for that second
level term. <br>
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So, for instance, one of my top level terms is Everyday, and I have
three second level terms under it of Arts & Culture, Entertaining,
and Family & Kids. On the front page, there would be an Everyday
menu, and then Arts & Culture, Entertaining, and Family & Kids
would be items on that menu. Each item would go to the panel page,
where all of the content on the page would be Articles that are tagged
with the appropriate second level term. The front page would be
similar, but would use a nodequeue just for items on the front page.<br>
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It's easy enough to create a view with an argument and pass that
through the panel for the secondary pages. The tricky part is
assigning the nodes to the different panes. For the front page, my
initial idea was to create a nodequeue that would contain all the
Article nodes I want to display on the front page. A suggestion was
made that I could use one view with multiple displays, and each display
would specify a nodequeue offset. I would then assign a different
display to each pane. The problem with that, though, is that as newer
items are added to the queue, the displayed nodes would move to
different panes. For the secondary pages, I don't want to use
nodequeues, because there are many categories, and that would be a lot
of nodequeues.<br>
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So with all that explained, what would be a good way to assign nodes to
my various panes? I'm trying to do it in such a way that it's very
easy for editors to select which nodes are to be displayed on the front
page and secondary pages. I already have a view with Views Bulk
Operations set up to assign to the Front Page queue and
publish/unpublish, so if I can go that route, that would be good.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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