Hi All,
This is my first post here so be kind ;-)
I've been pulling my hair out trying to set up taxonomy and a navigable menu on my site (with runs Drupal 5.10 from vBulletin)
I've been creating Articles and Reviews stories and I need to set the site up so users can easily navigate to a list of recent stories in each category.
I've set up categories so far called "Articles" and "Reviews".
This is where I am getting rather confused. I've added "Terms" to these (I guess these are sub-categories).
Going to the "Menus" option I've created a new menu and called it "Navigation Test".
This is where I get stuck - how do I link my stories from each category to the menu?
When i click "Add Item" all I get is the option to paste a path/link into - wouldn't it make more sense to have a drop-down list of all my categories here to choose from? Or am I missing something?
I'm sure this is something I should instantly be able to figure out, but it's left me very confused.
I do hope somebody can help.
Marc Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
I think you need to add a module for this functionality:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy_menu
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.comwrote:
Hi All,
This is my first post here so be kind ;-)
I've been pulling my hair out trying to set up taxonomy and a navigable menu on my site (with runs Drupal 5.10 from vBulletin)
I've been creating Articles and Reviews stories and I need to set the site up so users can easily navigate to a list of recent stories in each category.
I've set up categories so far called "Articles" and "Reviews".
This is where I am getting rather confused. I've added "Terms" to these (I guess these are sub-categories).
Going to the "Menus" option I've created a new menu and called it "Navigation Test".
This is where I get stuck - how do I link my stories from each category to the menu?
When i click "Add Item" all I get is the option to paste a path/link into - wouldn't it make more sense to have a drop-down list of all my categories here to choose from? Or am I missing something?
I'm sure this is something I should instantly be able to figure out, but it's left me very confused.
I do hope somebody can help.
Marc Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
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I already have the taxonomy module installed. That's where I've created the categories.
I'm trying to figure out how to link categories to the menu.
Anybody?
On 24 Sep 2008, at 22:15, Philip Small wrote:
I think you need to add a module for this functionality:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy_menu
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com wrote: Hi All,
This is my first post here so be kind ;-)
I've been pulling my hair out trying to set up taxonomy and a navigable menu on my site (with runs Drupal 5.10 from vBulletin)
I've been creating Articles and Reviews stories and I need to set the site up so users can easily navigate to a list of recent stories in each category.
I've set up categories so far called "Articles" and "Reviews".
This is where I am getting rather confused. I've added "Terms" to these (I guess these are sub-categories).
Going to the "Menus" option I've created a new menu and called it "Navigation Test".
This is where I get stuck - how do I link my stories from each category to the menu?
When i click "Add Item" all I get is the option to paste a path/link into - wouldn't it make more sense to have a drop-down list of all my categories here to choose from? Or am I missing something?
I'm sure this is something I should instantly be able to figure out, but it's left me very confused.
I do hope somebody can help.
Marc Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.comwrote:
I already have the taxonomy module installed. That's where I've created the categories.
Marc: So you downloaded and installed the taxonomy_menu modulehttp://drupal.org/node/3724 and it is not working as expected? To be clear, the taxonomy module and the taxonomy_menu module are two different modules. Phil
Thanks Phil.
I was hoping to find an easier way of getting this working - it seems to me to be quite tricky to figure all this out...
Do I really need this other module? I though the menu module working in conjunction with Categories took care of this?
On 24 Sep 2008, at 23:02, Philip Small wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com wrote: I already have the taxonomy module installed. That's where I've created the categories.
Marc: So you downloaded and installed the taxonomy_menu module and it is not working as expected? To be clear, the taxonomy module and the taxonomy_menu module are two different modules. Phil -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Marc Morris Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
Earlier this summer, I tried to do what you are trying: individual menu links to each taxonomy/term/[n]. I abandoned it b/c it was not how I wanted it menu-nesting-wise however folks are doing thishttp://www.sitelancers.net/. [1 http://drupal.org/node/71436#comment-133979]. I do think you need the add-on module to get closer to what you want. On the upside, taxonomy_menu seems well loved and currently supported (apparently an issue last year) . The module's code could be better http://drupal.org/node/307117, but it works. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.comwrote:
Thanks Phil.
I was hoping to find an easier way of getting this working - it seems to me to be quite tricky to figure all this out...
Do I really need this other module? I though the menu module working in conjunction with Categories took care of this?
On 24 Sep 2008, at 23:02, Philip Small wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com wrote: I already have the taxonomy module installed. That's where I've created the categories.
Marc: So you downloaded and installed the taxonomy_menu module and it is not working as expected? To be clear, the taxonomy module and the taxonomy_menu module are two different modules. Phil -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Marc Morris Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
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OK, I've now installed the taxonomy_menu module but I'm confused about how to set it up. On the module's installation page it says:
"To get you own block, you have to move the category menu item to its own menu. Taxonomy menu puts this new menu in the Navigation menu by default"
How do I move the category menu into its own menu? This doesn't make any sense to me at all.
On 24 Sep 2008, at 23:02, Philip Small wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com wrote: I already have the taxonomy module installed. That's where I've created the categories.
Marc: So you downloaded and installed the taxonomy_menu module and it is not working as expected? To be clear, the taxonomy module and the taxonomy_menu module are two different modules. Phil -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Marc Morris Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
Quoting Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com:
OK, I've now installed the taxonomy_menu module but I'm confused about how to set it up. On the module's installation page it says:
"To get you own block, you have to move the category menu item to its own menu. Taxonomy menu puts this new menu in the Navigation menu by default"
How do I move the category menu into its own menu? This doesn't make any sense to me at all.
Point your site to ?q=admin/build/menu and see if it makes sense. If not ask again for help.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
Thanks, yes, I'm aware of this.
What i can't work out is how to get a unique menu block/bar for these new added links, rather than it appear in the current menu block.
Thanks,
Marc
On 30 Sep 2008, at 14:23, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com:
OK, I've now installed the taxonomy_menu module but I'm confused about how to set it up. On the module's installation page it says:
"To get you own block, you have to move the category menu item to its own menu. Taxonomy menu puts this new menu in the Navigation menu by default"
How do I move the category menu into its own menu? This doesn't make any sense to me at all.
Point your site to ?q=admin/build/menu and see if it makes sense. If not ask again for help.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
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Marc Morris Cult Movie Forums http://www.cultmovieforums.com/
Quoting Marc Morris marc@cultmovieforums.com:
I already have the taxonomy module installed. That's where I've created the categories.
I'm trying to figure out how to link categories to the menu.
Anybody?
Goto admin/build/menu and "Add menu item" to the "Menu" of your choice.
But what do you mean by categories? Do you mean each term? The link would be taxonomy/term/%tid where %tid is the id integer for the term. You can use path aliases to redirect this url to something else of your desiring. So if you have a term foo you can alias taxonomy/term/1 (assuming foo is the first term) to category/foo instead. Aliases are a product of the path module; so you have to enable it to use it.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
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