General discussion

While it is told that Drupal is great when it comes to handling large data, still I am at loss. The problem is every content in Drupal is based on "nodes". Hence whenever a new content is added the same is being inserted to the node table putting the pressure on it. Is it possible to break up the node table ?? or what can be the possible solution.

Hi

I hope someone can help me out a bit, I may be getting myself a bit too hung up on an approach I think is good, but may not be.

I have a vocabulary named Category, of rough structure;

Category
- Sport
- Food & Drink
- - Restaurants
- - - Spanish
- - - French
- - - Italian
- - Bars
- News
etc

I am using this as my core category grouping for my site, and am trying to base my menus on this structure as well.

I added a link to Food & Drink, and to News and Sport on the Main Menu.

They show up fine.

My questions are related to what I am looking for after this:

1) If I navigate to the Food & Drink category menu item - I only get the items in THAT specific term, and does not include those in the sub terms.
My work around for that was to simply tick the parent terms when creating the node, as well as the core one, so if I was creating a French restaurant, I ticked, French, Restaurants and Food & Drink.
This seemed to work fine, but any suggestions would be welcome.

2) The main stumbling block for me now is navigation as a whole.
If I click on the Food & Drink link I would like to see content in that term and all sub terms, but would also like a sub navigation / menu of the subterms beneath the current one.

I was wondering if there is a module(active or depreciated) to fetch user activity from DO. Searched google *quickly* but could not find any module or discussion - so started one.
Just like twitter feeds or facebook activity, I think such a feature would be handy for Drupal companies and freelancers.

Thoughts?

Hi Everyone,

I'm relatively new to Drupal, and new to using these forums. Please excuse me if my message is misplaced, or if it should be directed elsewhere. Also, I want to thank-you in advance for taking the time to read my question, and offer your professional (or experienced) insight.

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Hello,
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