Please be patient with me ... it's quite possible, that I just don't understand things yet.

I wish to create a frontpage, containing three - or maybe some more - tabs for 'about', 'disclaimer' and 'contact'. So I created those pages located at home/about, home/disclaimer and home/contact. They are published and placed on frontpage. Then I created a view, using the frontpage view coming with the views module as follows:

$view = new stdClass();
$view->name = 'Home';
$view->description = 'The CRSF frontpage view';
$view->access = array (
);
$view->view_args_php = '';
$view->page = TRUE;
$view->page_title = '';
$view->page_header = '';
$view->page_header_format = '1';
$view->page_footer = '';
$view->page_footer_format = '1';
$view->page_empty = '';
$view->page_empty_format = '1';
$view->page_type = 'node';
$view->url = 'home/frontpage';
$view->use_pager = FALSE;
$view->nodes_per_page = '10';
$view->menu = TRUE;
$view->menu_title = '';
$view->menu_tab = TRUE;
$view->menu_tab_default = FALSE;
$view->menu_tab_weight = '0';
$view->sort = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'sticky',
'sortorder' => 'DESC',
'options' => '',
),
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'created',
'sortorder' => 'DESC',
'options' => 'normal',
),
);
$view->argument = array (
);
$view->field = array (
);
$view->filter = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'promote',
'operator' => '=',
'options' => '',
'value' => '1',
),
);
$view->exposed_filter = array (
);
$view->requires = array(node);
$views[$view->name] = $view;

The frontpage is set to home/frontpage. But, there are no tabs showing up ... :/

What did I do wrong? The information in the views module manual is just not sufficient for my knowledge level.

Many thanks in advance for each kind of hint or help.

David

Comments

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

Yea, tabs are a pain in the butt. From the looks of it, you need to set one of them as the 'default' which will create a menu entry for 'home'. It looks like home/frontpage is it. The setting is called something like menu tab default (in the export it's menu_tab_default and is currently set to FALSE).

Then you can set your default homepage to just 'home' and home/frontpage should show up there by default and have the tabs you like as well.

davidmh’s picture

davidmh commented

First, thank you for your reply!

I've done as you wrote, and the view now looks like this:

$view = new stdClass();
$view->name = 'Home';
$view->description = 'The CRSF frontpage view';
$view->access = array (
);
$view->view_args_php = '';
$view->page = TRUE;
$view->page_title = 'Home';
$view->page_header = '';
$view->page_header_format = '1';
$view->page_footer = '';
$view->page_footer_format = '1';
$view->page_empty = '';
$view->page_empty_format = '1';
$view->page_type = 'node';
$view->url = 'home/frontpage';
$view->use_pager = FALSE;
$view->nodes_per_page = '10';
$view->menu = TRUE;
$view->menu_title = 'Home';
$view->menu_tab = TRUE;
$view->menu_tab_default = TRUE;
$view->menu_tab_weight = '0';
$view->sort = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'sticky',
'sortorder' => 'DESC',
'options' => '',
),
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'created',
'sortorder' => 'DESC',
'options' => 'normal',
),
);
$view->argument = array (
);
$view->field = array (
);
$view->filter = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'promote',
'operator' => '=',
'options' => '',
'value' => '1',
),
);
$view->exposed_filter = array (
);
$view->requires = array(node);
$views[$view->name] = $view;

I now do have a menu entry called Home, that's correct. But, there are still no tabs. Funny, but I also do have now another menu entry called directory, I do not have a clue where it did come from ... but this might be another issue.

To clarify things, here is a screenshot: http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1041/crsfdrupalscreenshottj2.png

I will appreciate any further help.

David

davidmh’s picture

davidmh commented

Just a wild guess ... home/about home/contact and home/disclaimer must by themselves be pages created by the views module, or just ordinary pages, created through the create content function? Just to be clear, in my case it is - maybe erroneous - the last case.

David

davidmh’s picture

davidmh commented
Status: Active » Fixed

All right ... talking to myself here :)

My guess was right, and maybe that obvious to you, that you couldn't imagine, I've got this wrong ... but I did. I now created three views, pointing to the content pages I've created beforehand.

It's working now!

Many thanks, merlinofchaos, your comment just made me see it.

A nice day to all of you!

David

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

I'm glad you got it working!

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
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hippyrandall commented

care to elaborate a little on how you achieved the tabs? Views and tabs have my head spinning and have as yet found a way to implement tabs on my site.
Consider me a noob. Sorry if this can be found somewhere else but I have not been able to find a walkthrough or tutorial.

Thanks,
Hippy Randall