For background, we are a fairly large publisher driving Drupal 6 with Vjoon K4 publishing platform tied to InDesign/InCopy. So...
We publish a breaking news story to Web: "Two die in Union Square apartment fire"
The story is indexed by search engines and traffic starts coming.
But then, reporter says he has updated news story: "Ten die in Union Square hotel arson fire"
If we do second story the way we did first, Drupal will, of course, publish the new story as well. So website will have original story that is indexed and pulling traffic, but is no longer up-to-date, AND the new story, which will possibly not be indexed, or not as well.
So, short of just cutting-and-pasting the new story text and headline into the first story, is there a way of updating original in a 21st century way? TYPO3 says (have not verified) that they have the capability to update ONE published story as many times as needed.
Does Drupal?THANKS!!!!
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Everything in a drupal is a
Everything in a drupal is a node, in other words a piece of content. Every node has at least the following url: /node/
In addition to that, Drupal provides the system of "aliases" which lets use to assign ANY url to ANY node.
In the case described above, you will have to remove the alias from one node and point it to another, which is done when you edit the node on the site
In my experience editors tend to keep updating the same story over and over, to build up a timeline.
2 modules
http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect & http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
enable both
admin/build/path/pathauto
General settings
Update action: Create a new alias. Redirect from old alias.
paths & revisioning
Note that pathauto can also be set to save the old alias and create a new one too.
If you want to store all of the edited versions of a node, turn on 'Create new revision' under the workflow fieldset of a node (or in the node type settings to make it the default).
I've run into the exact
I've run into the exact situation you described, and the gentlemen who posted above are 100% correct.
Revisioning and Publishing
How would we set it so the original page is up for the world to see but had a revision waiting to go live at a certain time?