By mradelet on

This is driving me insane, it should be simple to do!

I have several content types that I would like to post about on my site. Lets say that one content type is "recipes" and one is "interesting thoughts". I have added the two content types to the "content types" section, and can add items to them as I wish. However, how can I create a link to view JUST what is posted in that content type? I would love to have a link to view both content types in the "Primary Links section" When asked for a path, I am unsure what to put. Can I not use the "machine readable type" I created for that content type?

The "Edit Menu Item" has a description reading:
The path this menu item links to. This can be an internal Drupal path such as node/add or an external URL such as http://drupal.org. Enter to link to the front page.

Can anyone PLEASE tell me the internal path to VIEW (not ADD!!) to ONLY one content type?

My machine readable names are:

recipe
thoughts

In the "Path section for "Edit Menu Item" I have tried:

node/1 (this only views post 1)
node/2 (this only views post 2)
content/recipe (not found)
type/recipe (not found)
node/recipe (this displays ALL POSTS!!! Not just recipe! WHY!?!?)

Why is this so hard to do?! :(

When in administrative mode, I have the ability to sort through posts in ONE content type using drop down menus etc. Is there no link I can type in? Please help!

Thank you so much!

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Christefano-oldaccount commented

Check out the xtracker (extended tracker) module, or use Views to create a sorting filter. Each view can have its own menu items (and blocks, pages, RSS feeds) so that may be the best way to go.

mradelet’s picture

mradelet commented

There is a module built in called "Taxonomy" that loads whenever I click categories... Something tells me this will work for what I intend to do. However, it mentions tagging... How do I actually select a category while posting? How can I make a link to list posts under a certain category?

I see now that "content type" is more a "media content type", rather than "subject content type". I think I have been attempting to do this the wrong way. Any idea on how to answer these two new questions?

Thanks again,
Malcolm

*Update*

Using taxonomy worked perfectly. I added terms, and the terms are selectable from a dropdown menu while posting to a single content type. Terms are essentially categories themselves for my purposes. While posting I can select a dropdown box for "recipes" or "thoughts". Links are in the form of "taxonomy/term/1" and "taxonomy/term/2" etc. I suppose the aliasing can allow me to change that to much shorter. Weee!