Re: Porting from Static Menu to Taxonomy Question

Hi Tod,

I create a specific vocabulary for the menu (e.g., "Navigation" or "On this site") and then the top-level terms in that vocabulary become the top-level menu items (e.g., "About", "News", "Downloads"). As you've discovered, you cannot assign nodes to the vocabulary root, only to terms. In case you haven't look at it, the taxonomy_menu module will automatically build menus from specified vocabularies. It does, however, leave you with a top level "Navigation" link that 

* Must be clicked before the user sees the category (term) links

* Does not itself link to useful content, IMO (your choices are "Nothing assigned" message or a listing of every item assigned to every term in the vocabulary).

That said, it does automate the creation of a site menu system based on one or more vocabularies.

On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:

I have just spent a week or so evaluating Drupal and find it to be a very mature, very comprehensive CMS.

I want to port a static html web site over to Drupal and I'd like to do it in such a way that moving forward I can take advantage of the features that Drupal provides.  One of the things I have been struggling with is what to with its current static navigation menu.

I started by recreating that menu (list of single hyperlinks) using the core Drupal menu module.  That works but I think as the site matures and I attract more viewers, and thereby over time more content, I'd probably want to go with the menu derived from a taxonomy.

I tried replicating the menu with the taxonomy_menu module.  I defined each category with one of the list menu items from above, defining no terms for now.  I did this because over time I expect the taxonomy to fill out and as this happens I could add the appropriate terms as necessary.

When I was all done I had my menu re-created but I had no way no associate a particular node with each item.  Now I'm stuck.

Should I expect this to work, or is the only purpose of a category to provide a link to select that will expand and display its associated, selectable term item?

Thanks - Tod

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