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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Create a Menu for Groups


Once you have created the Class and Club content types, you can increase the usability of your site by moving the links for creating classes and clubs into their own menu.

Although this step is not necessary, confusion can arise because groups are also content types. A look at the default navigation menu, pictured in the following screenshot, helps illustrate why.

In the default navigation menu, all content types are grouped together in the same area. This can be confusing; although Club and Video are both content types, they do very different things to the other content types.

Separating Group nodes into a separate menu and then displaying that block—as shown in the following screenshot—can help eliminate some of this confusion.

Note

The process of creating custom menus is described in detail in Chapter14: Theming and User Interface Design.

By separating Group nodes into a separate menu, you can provide a distinct place for people to go when they want to create groups...