Add to nodequeue

Create a node of Content type Story. For example call it Story 1, add some body text and hit submit.

As you can see below we have an Add Story link showing. Click on it and it will cause the story to be added to our nodequeue.

Once clicked, notice how the link changes to Remove Story.

 

Now if we click on the Node queue link we can see that the node is on the queue.

We can view the queue, which will allow us to maintain position and what nodes to show in the queue. The nodequeue could be used for listing your favourite nodes, the nodequeues are system wide as Earl has mentioned so currently no user level nodequeues are possible.

Go ahead and add two more Story nodes, perhaps imaginatively called Story 2 and Story 3.

 

displaying a nodequeue on your site

You may think that you just need to go to admin/build/block in order to add the nodequeue as a block to your site. That's not the case, first we need to enable the nodequeue in Views, so go to admin/build/views and you will see nodequeue_1 listed (ok, mine says nodequeue_2 well I did a dry run before writing this tutorial) with Title 'Latest Stories', notice how the Status is Disabled.

Click on the Enable link under the Actions column in order to enable it.

Now go back to admin/build/block and you will see the nodequeue listed under the disabled.

Select the region where you want it to be displayed and click Save Blocks button. (Note we can configure the block which will allow us to override the Title, and do all the usual things possible with Blocks permissions etc). You should now see the nodequeue appear as a block in your chosen region.

So now we have a Block on the site which lists the content of our nodequeue, we can manually add and remove Story nodes from the queue. But what happens when we eventually have more than 5 Story nodes on our queue? The oldest story will disappear from the queue and we'll have a more link displayed at the foot of the block.

Also, if you inspect the nodequeue the In queue column will show 5 and the words QUEUE FULL.

Before we use Actions and Workflow modules, a few observations about nodequeue:

• Once an item falls off the queue, ie. we exceed the maximum number of queue entries, then if you edit that node the link will once again say Add Story.
• Adding a node to the nodequeue causes the added node to be placed at the bottom of the queue. It then rises to the top as more nodes are added. By default the sort order of the nodequeue is by queue position, which you'll see when we make a view of a nodequeue. A Latest Stories block really should have the newest added nodes added at the top of the list and sink down the list rather than rise. But have no fear, Views module comes to the rescue as we will see we can add a view of a nodequeue and do all the usual view things.
• You can use the Theme Wizard in the Views module to theme the nodequeue, YEAH! See below

Let'smake a view of our nodequeue, so we can make the Latest Stories block list stories by the time the Story node was created.