By bdparker on

Hi! I'm only a couple weeks in to Drupal, and one of the things I'm noticing is that the pages, articles, and all other content types on my site are just clumped together in the "Content" area of my website.

In other CMS programs, I could have the ability to assign parents and children to most content types, such as in Wordpress, Mura, Joomla, and the sort, and each content type would remain separate. We have a large site planned (20,000+ articles and pages) and having a hierarchy is going to be important. I'm trying to nest these pages so that there's a structure to the way they're presented, instead of them all being on the same line. Even when I change the parent of a page, it still shows in the line.

My content section looks like this:

- Pastries
- Soups
- Pie
- Turnovers
- Salads
- Chicken Noodle
- Tomato
- Garden
- Muffins
- Caesar

and I want it to look like this:

- Pastries
- Pie
- Turnovers
- Muffins
- Soups
- Chicken Noodle
- Tomato
- Salads
- Garden
- Caesar

I have pages showing under others in my dropdown which I've done by setting the parent, but I would like to see these reflected in the way the content page is presented. I'd also like to assign articles to parents so they can show only under those specific categories.

Is this possible? It seems like something that would be standard, but is there something I'm doing wrong or forgetting?

Thanks,
Brendan

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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bdparker commented

I think what I might be asking, in simple form, are two things:

How to I assign a Parent to a content node? I know I can do it in a fake way by adding it to the menu and then choosing a parent, but that doesn't actually assign it as a parent. It simply makes a link to it show in the menu. What I'd like to do is change the structure so that it is actually underneath another page - so it reflects in the URL and in the breadcrumbs. And menu, too.

How do I show a hierarchy in the Content list so that it's organized by parent > child, not title, or publication date, or anything else?

Thanks,
Brendan