[drupal-docs] Difference between a "story" and a "page"

[Dan Robinson]

> This sounds more like a support question, but I'll try to define it as 
> I see it. The difference is more in intent to how it is used and how 
> that is facilitated. From something I've written previously:
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> "Stories are posts which appear on the default home page of a Drupal 
> site, akin to a community weblog or Slashdot-like site where all site 
> members can post. Or, the regular site users can be denied the ability 
> to post to the front page using stories, allowing the site 
> administrators to use the front page as an announcement board."
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> "Static pages are a way for a site administrator to create pages which 
> are not included in one of the other node displays and could be used 
> instead of the Books for additional resource pages."
>
actually I don't get this at all.  If I setup stories and pages in 
Drupal and give them the same node defaults - they operate the same.  I 
think that the distinction you are making is arbitrary from the point of 
view of what the features actually are.  While this is a reasonable 
"best practice" - it is not "codified" - is this correct?

> Now in many ways, the two are similar in that a story could be 
> unpublished and serve the same way as a page. But that requires 
> administrative access to make this distinction. So the main difference 
> to me is that pages and stories have different permission settings and 
> default workflow settings, allowing the distinction to happen 
> automatically as part of the node creation process for a site. Each is 
> then useful for different contexts.

well we could also call them HTML_CONTENT_1 and HTML_CONTENT_2, and I 
"get" that it is useful to have different node types to develop 
different work flows - but I would want to have _3, _4, yada yada.   
(and as was pointed out you can use flexinode or build your own node 
type to do this).

Dan

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> Dan Robinson wrote:
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>> I've been wondering about this for some time - what is the diff?  I'm 
>> writing some doco - so I am assuming the question is fair game here.  
>> I've been using Drupal for a couple of months and I've looked around 
>> for the answer to this question a number of times.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
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