Posted by rggoode on October 18, 2010 at 2:46pm
Hi all...
I'm still slogging through setting up Organic Groups for the Alumni site I'm working on, and I'm getting stuck on an element that I'm pretty sure should be fairly straight-forward.
The client wants the Alumni section of the site to act like a site within a site... in that, when to go to that section from the main navigation, you would be presented with a separate tabbed-navigation at the top of the main-content column in the middle of the page.
I suspect that this is something that I would accomplish with Views, but I'm not sure where to start. Suggestions, anyone?
Comments
Features module
Features module (http://drupal.org/project/features) will do exactly what you want when combined with spaces_og module (http://drupal.org/project/spaces_og). They're designed to work together along with Context and PURL. If you've seen Open Atrium (http://openatrium.org), it's entirely built upon those modules and the devseed guys have done a real nice job providing documentation. Let me know if you have questions about it as we've applied it extensively on several projects.
There are 2 ways to get that
There are 2 ways to get that extra navigation. You could just create a separate menu and place it. Or, if the those other links are directly related to a section in the primary nav, place the menu items nested under that main item and use http://drupal.org/project/menu_block to display the nested elements in another block. Menu Block is smart and will only display the items in the section that you are in.
Michelle Lauer
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Thank you both
I'm looking for the simplest solution to implement for this--both for my own sake (noob-ish), and for the client's sake when I turn this over to them. The menus approach sounds like that might be the answer I'm seeking, if I can determine whether everything they want does actually "live" together as related items.
One other model I found while doing some searching on the Drupal site is Quicktabs http://drupal.org/project/quicktabs. I wonder if you have heard of that one and might have any opinions?
Roger
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