I built a website that allows a user to create event pages with schedules etc... But now I want to give more options which can be used to build more of a minisite or microsite. So along with the usual options of adding a gallery, description etc.. I want them to be able to add a sub menu, and a custom background. I think the background is easy. However, for the submenu I don't really want to give access to the menu options. I would like to still use nice menu though.
I would love some suggestions as to the best way of adding these features while making it really intuitive for the users. Something like a Microsite node that allows everything to be set on one page perhaps?
Have you looked at Open Atrium? http://openatrium.com/
This is a Drupal distribution that lets you create microsites.
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I need advice on how to do breadcrumbs in asp classic
I have a company detail page - the thing is it could have been gotten to by a number of ways - through a area or through a list of categories and then companies
I want to show the breadcrumb that this user came to it
(and the same page can be gotten to in many ways)
I tried to build a session variable but if a user clicks the back key then it messed it up
any ideas?
When you design your site you need to work out, in your own mind (best to use a pencil and paper), just how the site links together and which pages can be considered to be related. I know this sounds pretty grey, but this is more a design principal than set in stone.
Word is a good tool to work this out. Flick into Outline View and use this to build up the structure. The arrows on the ribbon at the top left allow you to indent and outdent your structure, and the markers at the beginning of the line allow you to drag and drop sections from one place to another.
Once you're happy about the structure you can update your pages to contain the stepped breadcrumb. Unless you have heavily automated pages that change their structure vastly, or a site that is very fluid (changing it's structure frequently), I would simply hard code the breadcrumb in using an unordered list (<ul>).
It gets more complicated for Classic ASP if you want to be able to automate the breadcrumb. Firstly you'd need to decide what type of automation you want to use; for instance XML, like the .NET version, or a global.asa string/array version, or something that's read from your database... The list goes on.
If you still find it difficult to get around the user's landing page train of thought, try using the search page on a site like the NHS Data Dictionary, or even try navigating using the links on the left. The breadcrumb for this site is in the top banner - watch what happens when you switch between different links.
Hope this helps, but remember there's no right or wrong way to code up your links, it simply depends on the application or site you're creating.
So, I'm working on a site right now in Drupal that has a block designed to allow a visitor to jump to different "projects" (just a term). Most of the projects have content associated with them. However, some projects become empty from time to time as content is moved around and projects are restructured.
I currently have a view in place that shows an exposed form listing all of these projects as a dropdown and displaying it in a block. Is there a way for me to customize this view to only show projects that have content associated with them?
This would preferably be done entirely with the view. However, I would love to see any solutions you all can come up with. Also, please excuse my terminology if any is incorrect. I'm very new to Drupal and still getting used to the labels and structure of the whole CMS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thx S/O!
Try this:
Edit the view. Under the Advanced section => Relationships, click add.
Add the relationship "Taxonomy term: content with term", and make sure to check "Require this relationship".
If this makes your view full of duplicates, try this answer to a question at drupal.stackexchange.com.
Hope that helps!
hi i want to refresh user page with different data but with same template (user-profile.tpl.php) by simply clicking tabs. Can any one suggest the best way to do that ?.
for ex:
tab1:sports , tab2: music tab3: literature
by clicking tabs the template is same but the data is going to refreshed.
Note: Look like profile categories but not the same. all details are from user table
I think the simplest way, which isn't exactly what you asked for, would be to using jQuery tabs or something similar to create the tabs effect. In other words get all the data but use CSS and JavaScript to handle which data should be displayed.
I don't think there is an easy way to split up the content of the user profile into tabs with pure html and Drupal.
i am try to build a web site, it has a 2 level menu.
global|asia|euro|u.s (this is locaion menu)
about|home|news (this is content menu)
if a web site user clicks on global, it will show global|home page, if
the user clicks euro , it will show euro|home page, clicks on u.s it shows u.s|home page.
global|home , euro|home, u.s|home, all 3 have same format but different content.
for global|about, euro|about, u.s|about, if a user clicks on global , then clicks on about, it shows global|about page, clicks on euro, then clicks on about, it shows euro|about page, etc.
page content is different , but format same.
all things (items, nodes) in this web site have a location taxonomy attached to it.
for example, for home page,we have to show a picture, the picture has location attached to it.
so , when a user click on euro|home, the picture should comes from euro location , for asia|home, the picture should comes from asia location.
My question is, in drupal 6, how to organize my menu, taxonomy, views, pages to achieve the result.
A way to look at this problem would be to think of this as a multi lingual site. You have different languages:
global
asia
euro
u.s
Even if all the actual text is written in english, you can setup your site as though the languages are different. You can make different versions of english, so all the other text doesn't get translated to other languages. What's smart about this, is that you can translate your nodes, like the about page, and Drupal would show the one from your active language. This would be one way of fixing this, and clicking the different regions, would just change the language.
Another way to do this, would be to use taxonomy. Some of the things, like the menu system would be a bit more different to fix. There would be different solutions to solving your problem this way. In some ways, it would be more simple than making your site multi lingual. I think the easiest way would be to make a 4 different menus, one for each menu. Then you could make some logic in your template, that fx looked at the args, or looked at the taxonomy term you had associated to the node being displayed, and based on that, you would display the different menus. It would require much more coding, to get it to do what you want, and it's not exactly an ideal solution, but would make your site less complex.
Another way to solve this problem, could be using sub menus. So you made children to each region in your main menu. Then you could simply show the menu of the active one. This would probably be the easiest and most simple solution to your problem. Most of it, would be purely styling that would be needed to make it work like you wan to. There might be some issues making the right menu show all the time, but depending on how complex your site are, this shouldn't be a big deal.
These are 3 ways to solve your problem, each has it pros and cons, and the best is very much dependent on the nature of your site.
Right now, when I create a media item, I can view it as admin by going through the Media then clicking on view, eventually I end up at [mysite]/blog/?attachment_id=31 which is a nice reduced version of the image (which can be clicked to appear large), and which has the nice feature that there is a place to leave comments at the bottom.
This is great for administrators. But I want anonymous users to be able to look at 5 different, fairly similar images, and make comments on the pages separately. So I'd like for the anonymous users who navigate to [mysite]/blog/?attachment_id=31 to find the same page the way it looks to admins.
But when going to that URL as an anonymous user instead of the image with comment form I get:
Sorry, no posts matched your criteria
So, how can I enable this permission for anonymous users?
If this is not possible, please rephrase the question as, "What is the best way to use Wordpress to get a bunch of anonymous people to vote on 5 different layouts and also to be able to comment on each of them separately, as I am trying to do at http://christian-filipina.com/blog/ ? (None of these are public URLs, please don't link to them.)
Do I need to create a page for each of those separate layouts and then use HTML to link to the variously-sized versions of the images?
When adding an image to the post make sure that "attachment page" is checked instead of "image file" This should fix your problem. See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments