General discussion

Is it possible to have multiple Navigation menus?

What i really want is a "grouped" menu (see below) - which i thought i could get by just making up mutliple menus - but i don't hink i can do that. Then i figured, like some other modules, i could just copy and rename and then add as 2nd block - but don't think i can do that either (since i dont think nav is a mod).

What i really am loking for is a nav menu that looks something like:

menu 00
menu 01
menu 02

menu 10
menu 11
menu 12

menu 20

Greetings All,

The Institute for End User Computing, Inc. is a New York State based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation pursuing the long term grand challenge goal of designing a new legacy free End User Computing Platform to integrate the best enabling technologies from all areas of computer science and leapfrog today's platforms. Our secondary objectives include educating the public about enabling technologies, public policy issues, and domain specific End User Computing applications, as well as promoting the study of computer science and allied disciplines.

We have a large static website at http://www.ieuc.org which is generated through the use of a rather complex semi-auotomated client side infrastructure that makes use of such tools as Tinderbox, iCal, and Endnote 6. On the server side our site also uses BBClone and phpicalendar.

We want to augment our online presence with a Drupal community that matches the look-and-feel of our existing pages. To that end, we would like volunteers to help us develop some custom Drupal 4.7 modules to encapsulate our existing functionality.

First, we want to create and then contribute to the Drupal Community a model to invoke BBClone's data collection facilities when Drupal nodes are visited.

Second, we are contemplating a much more challenging module to embed Drupal hooks in statically generated non-drupal pages. The idea would be to have our non-drupal CMS generate a call to a Drupal interface php script invoked each of our static pages with that page's globally unique ID. The script would query Drupal to see if that static page had an associated discussion. If it did, it would embed a link to that node in the static page indicating how many comments in the drupal database related to it. It would also create a "discuss this page" link on the page that would load a redirection node whose purpose would be to dynamically create a discussion forum associated with the original static page and redirect the page load request to load that node. This way static content could be controlled and developed outside of Drupal and only those pages with associated discusions would need to represented in the Drupal database, while providing the website visitor with the illusion that the entire site was a single unified system.

Third, we could use some help tweaking our custom Drupal theme to look like the rest of our site. This could also lead to a module with some sort of automatic cross-linking facility to unify Drupal and non-Drupal page navigation or ideally to a module that could automatically import and update cross-linked external XML-based content generated by arbitary client side GUI authoring tools.

What is the better TAGs solution for 4.6? only this symple question...

awTags, free tagging or Tagadelic ?

I like very much awTags (http://drupal.org/node/34156) but I don´t sure if it is enought stable for use it... what you recommend me?

I search some flexible tags option (like del.icio.us)

Cant find any description for administrating drupal…

I want separate administrating menu from navigation. As I see I can not move administrative functions from default navigation for users. So I create new menu and move there user’s functions.

Now I’ve wrote some article and published it but how can I publish it under certain link in my menu? Lets say I have recipes and travel notes and I want publish them under that links. Now all my links in menu showing “Page not found” although I even create directory and some index file in it assigned.

It works great, however, all the text is in black.. When I get more users on it, its going to be hard to read, is there anything/anyone that can allow colours or icons in the chat to help tell one person from the other??

Thanks in advanced :)

I have been trying to find some way of creating an easy navigation system with Drupal for a complex taxonomy containing nearly a thousand terms ordered into six main vocabularies and various subcategories and subsubcategories.

The taxonomy_browser module at first appeared to be ideal. I created separate content types with flexinode for each of my six vocabularies and now the taxonomy_browser shows each vocabulary in a separate box. (It also means the content for each category can be specifically tailored with appropriate fields, which I what I wanted.) However, the layout on the page is not neat or balanced. Some drop down menus are wide and some narrow, depending on the longest term in each vocab. With up to five layers and a long list of terms in each vocabulary, the category browser starts to look like a small window onto a very big world. I'm still keeping it because it allows you to gather posts from different categories across vocabularies, very neat.

The next step was to consider adding the taxanomic structure to the menu block, by using a sparse top level, opening up in detail as you open up the levels. But again, with large taxonomies, it starts to quickly look crowded in the nav block. Also, some of my term titles are themselves quite long, so most of them go over two or three lines. The main problem for me is that the nav system does not collapse when clicking on the parent term (some developers think this is okay, but I find it counter-intuitive).