[support] Is there any sort of map/overview/tree in Drupal?

[cl at isbd.net]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:57:05PM -0600, Larry Garfield wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2007 2:34 pm, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > I'm trying Drupal for a second time (I'm a glutton for punishment!)
> > and I've installed Drupal 5.1.
> 
> Yeah, it's an addiction. :-)
> 
> > I can understand the basics and I can create content etc. but what I
> > lack is a way to see the structure of the web site I'm creating.  Is
> > there anywhere in Drupal where I can see a list of pages that I have
> > created, preferably with some sort of indication of the connections
> > between them?
> 
> By default, there isn't one.  There's just a "pile of nodes".  If you want a 

Hmm, typical!

> site to have a primary tree of some sort, my recommendation is to use the 
> menu module and restrict the OTF menu item creation to the Primary Links 
> menu.  Then when you create a node, you can assign it to somewhere in that 
> menu.  That menu becomes your site structure.
> 
> If you want an at-a-glance view of the entire tree, I offer the menutree 
> module[1] which was written to create a site map page out of that sort of 
> setup.  I've not updated it for 5.0 yet (I will be for a client site soon), 
> but it should be trivial to upgrade.  Patches welcome if you want to give it 
> a shot. :-)
> 
> If you just want a list of nodes, the content page in the admin gives you that 
> along with a simple search function.
> 
It just seems strange that something so essential/fundamental/useful
(depends on your view I suppose) isn't in the default Drupal.  It's
not in Joomla either but it *is* in some other CMS and, at least for a
newcomer it makes them a whole lot more usable.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)