May 11, 2010 - 1:34pm
Use Views
Todd,
The standard way of organizing the display of custom content types is via a "view." If the normal view presented to site visitors doesn't meet the needs of site administrators (which is frequently the case) I create a view specifically for administrators and create a menu item in a menu (displayed in a block) available to administrators only.
Hope this helps,
Curt
May 11, 2010 - 6:51pm
I think I can figure that out
One question I have is how can I make a menu item only show for a specific role or permission? Can I do that and just add the item to my primary links or do you make a new menu and put that in a block that is only visible to certain users?
May 14, 2010 - 11:55pm
It depends
You can actually use either method. Traditionally I'd add it to the site's navigation menu (whether that's the "Navigation" or "Primary" menu). Now, I'm more inclined to create a special menu and display it in a block for selected roles because it provides me with a more stable "site" menu that's seen by both general (anonymous) users and me.
Curt
I am wondering the best way to manage a lot of content. We have sermons as a CCK content type but if I want to edit an old item it can be difficult to find. Would there be an easy way to show one or more of my CCK fields on the content management screen? Even better would be a way to sort or filter on a CCK date field.
-Todd