Content organization in Drupal

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Posted by jmcquillan on May 25, 2012 at 1:59pm

Our university is moving our site to Drupal and I wanted to see if anyone had recommendations for organizing content.

Currently, the problem I'm having is that we have nodes of information that will be in different parts of the site and have the same title, but different information.

For example, we have a "Resources" page on the parents section of our site and the Alumni section. Since they both contain similar content, we would use the same content type to enter their information. When trying to filter nodes by content type, their are then two or more pages that have the same name, within that content type and look no different until you open up each page.

Is there a better way of organizing content like this or making it clearer which page is which if I didn't want "Parent Resources" and "Alumni Resources" to be the page titles?

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Taxonomy

Posted by cbrasfield on May 25, 2012 at 2:43pm
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Hi,

I would suggest using taxonomy to classify your content. That way you have only a content type for different types of content, but then you can classify that content based on it's purpose or audience, ie Alumni or Parents.

Christina

Thanks for your response

Posted by jmcquillan on May 25, 2012 at 2:56pm
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Thanks for your response Christina.

I am already integrating taxonomy terms and vocabularies with my content types. This is great for tagging and searching while on the site itself. I can then navigate to the page and click the edit tab, which does work to edit these pages.

I guess I'm just wondering if on the content page within drupal if there is an easier way to find them there. Since the only filters available are by content type or status, I end up with a large list of nodes, some of which have the same name when I filter by certain content types.

You can create an

Posted by cbrasfield on May 25, 2012 at 3:07pm
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You can create an administrative view for all of your content to better organize how you want it to appear. I set something up similar for our staff newsletter. For the path in views, make it admin/viewcontentmyway and create relationships to your taxonomy, add your taxonomy fields, and then expose them underneath the filter criterion.

VBO

Posted by choster on May 25, 2012 at 4:00pm
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Views Bulk Operations provides ready replacements for some admin pages, including the content list, and can be overridden and edited like any other View.

Workbench

Posted by bill.mclaughlin on May 25, 2012 at 3:18pm
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One option to consider is the Workbench module. Workbench allows you to assign sections to your nodes. We've used this on higher ed sites with good results.

One benefit - you can set permissions for specific users that are local to their section. For example, Jane can create/edit/delete a standard content page (based on the permissions associated with her role), but only in the Admissions section of the site (based on her Workbench settings).

Another nice thing about workbench is the view that replaces the standard Content - List view that you are referring to. See: http://cl.ly/000J0E2X26063W2S0s0S

If you had 3 pages titled Resources, this view would identify which section of the site they reside in, which would allow you to quickly spot the page you want to edit.

Users with limited access rights will only see the content they can edit when they go to their My Workbench view.

Hope this helps.

Bill

Thanks! This sounds like it

Posted by jmcquillan on May 25, 2012 at 3:26pm
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Thanks!

This sounds like it should definitely solve my problem.