Guidance on content types

Posted by cabplan on

I have used Drupal for a few years now but have a request that I am not quite sure how to accomplish in Drupal. I want to have a content type called "Sidebar" which has a few fields (Title and body). Then I want another Content type called "Website Page" that has some fields but also a "Sidebar" section that has a checkbox option for "Sidebar" which then adds that sidebar content to that page. I want to be able to add different Sidebar nodes, which the title pulls to that section of the Website Page Section area.

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content types
⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

When to use Entityform

When I was first researching Entityform and other survey form modules, I had four basic questions I was trying to resolve.

  1. I don't want to create a survey form, so why would I want to use a survey form module?
  2. How does Entityform help solve my problem?
  3. When should I use it
  4. How is it different from other solutions?

After doing some research and talking with Tedbow, this modules author, I think I can start to answer these questions.


I don't want to create a survey form, so why would I want to use a survey form module?

I just had this same discussion with a friend of mine the other day. She wanted to include a signup form at the bottom of an event content type node. This sign up form would allow people to register for the event. (Yes, I know she could’ve used the signup module. However she needed more functionality than the signup module offered.) I suggested she use either Entityform or Webform. Her immediate response was "I want to create a signup form, not a survey form". And therein lies the confusion of “survey” form modules.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x, Programmers, Site administrators, Site builders, content types, webform, entityform, entityforms, Beginner, Incomplete

Is Drupal the right tool for the job?

Drupal is a powerful and flexible content management system for building virtually any kind of website. What are you looking for Drupal to do for you? The following are some areas that Drupal champions:

⋅ Categories: Site administrators, Choosing a CMS, Why choose drupal?, web application, evaluating Drupal, flexible site, e-commerce, Wiki, blog, easy to configure, workflow, quick customization, quick development, content types, Advanced Forum, Diff, Beginner, Needs copy/style review

Content, the Drupal Way

Organizing content in Drupal can be very liberating — or very frustrating, depending on what methods you're used to using.

Almost all information in Drupal is stored as a 'node', the basic unit of content. By default, there is no hierarchy or structure imposed on these nodes: they do not reside in specific 'sections' of your site, and different kinds of nodes (images, blog posts, news articles, etc.) are not automatically grouped or sorted into different groups. Rather than hard-coding specific hierarchies or styles of display, Drupal treats your content as a giant soup, with each piece of content having properties like a title and an author, a 'published' flag, a publication date, and so on. Specific kinds of pages, specific sections of your site, and so on are created by pulling up any content with certain properties and listing it.

Some examples can help clarify this concept.

  1. Default front page
⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x, Drupal 7.x, Drupal 8.x, Site administrators, Site builders, Content, Node, content types, content type, Beginner, No known problems
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