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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By : J. Ayen Green
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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By: J. Ayen Green

Overview of this book

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content. In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it. This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls. This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Drupal 6 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Views


As you have seen, a Vocabulary allows you to assign descriptive tags to the content. You may also have noticed that only the front page shows multiple pieces of Node Content, that there is only single front page, and that the criteria for Node Content appearing on this front page is simply whether that Node Content has been promoted or not.

So, it would seem that we have a disconnect. For example, what if we want a page to contain some or all (but more than one) of our pieces about healing music? It would seem that there's no way to do that. But there is—Views.

A View is basically a page based on the criteria that you specify. Thus, if your criteria is that you want it to show all of the Node Content with a Taxonomy value of Healing Music, then you will have accomplished the seemingly impossible. Let's do just that!

Activity 6.2: Creating a View

We're going to create a View to show articles on the topic of Healing Music. This will be like a front page for a particular category of Node...