Posted by labrown on July 21, 2009 at 8:46pm
Is Node Heirarchy the best way to tie a set of pages together when you don't want to put them in a book? I'm setting up to migrate an existing website into Drupal and want to replicate the link setup of some pages. For example, we have the following pages in the current website:
Organization
Bylaws
Board of Trustees
FutureWhen I click into the Organization page, I want to see a nav menu with the sub pages listed. What's the best/easiest way to replicate page layout in Drupal?
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Node Hierarchy is good. You
Node Hierarchy is good. You could also just create a Menu with the desired hierarchy then set that block to only be visible on the desired pages.
Avoiding manual work
I'm trying to avoid too much "manual work" is setting this stuff up, in the hopes that non-drupal-gurus will be able to help build out the site over time. Manually entering menu entries, etc. is what I'd like to stay away from.
I'm going to dupe my development environment and take a run with Node Heirarchy.
You aren't saving any work
You aren't saving any work by using Node Reference, you're actually creating more (module installation & configuration, updates, etc) and fragmenting administration tasks across multiple interfaces in the process.
So much work...
I agree that node hierarchy isn't the way to go. Menu seems like the most obvious option. There's also Outline, which lets you create an outline of pages independent of the menu system. To help us know what's appropriate, it would be great if you could answer a couple of questions:
How big is your site?
How frequently will the hierarchy change?
Site Size
The entire site is about 340 pages, but I don't plan on bringing them all across to the Durpal version at once. The immediate need is for probably 10-15 pages max. The heirarchy of these pages will be pretty static. The content in them will change over time, but not the layout.
Got it working!
I got what I wanted using just the built in Menu's. Thanks for the quick directions. It's not quite as clear and easy as I'd hoped, but it works nicely once set up.