Geoff Hankerson

Sometimes you want to move a cck field out of the main content area and put it in a region like a left or right sidebar.

There are some options for this that include a number of modules and perhaps panels, but I wanted a lighter weight solution and the solution is: CCK and Views!

My goal here was to have a related content block for a given node of type page. So:

Step 1: create a cck node reference field that references other page nodes (or any other content type you'd like to use).

Step 2: create a view called related_pages.

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Aegir install on OSX Snow Leopard

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Building your own platform on top of Drupal for managing many sites.

(Drupal folks I would love to hear how this is similar or different than your workflow. Please leave a comment).

Using Drupal's multi-site features, installation profiles and Drush, features and context modules, as well as a version control repository like Subversion, you can build your own fine-tuned platform to deploy and host multiple sites with similar features while still retaining the ability to customize each particular site as needed.