Books is a module of Drupal (in core of D7) that allows to join nodes in hierarchical sequence.

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Drupal 6 import/export book

I'm looking for a module to export/migrate a books (with all child pages) from a Drupal ( 6.x) Installation to another. Thank you in advance for your kind replies
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How to get children and parent book pages

I have nid of a book page. I need the nid of the parent and nid of all direct and indirect childs. How to retrieve the parent and child IDs?
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A book of two content types: “Broad topic” and “Specific topic”

I want to make a book of pages with content types "Broad topic" and "Specific topic". I want to allow "Specific topic" content type as a book page with "Broad topic" parent and also pages of ...
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Classifying with books vs taxonomy

I have a tree of research topics, such as Mathematics/Algebra/subtopics. The users should not be able to edit too broad topics such as Algebra, but have the permissions for smaller subtopics. Should ...
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How to update all hyperlinks which are in the content

Hello I am using book_copy module for creating a new version of the book so i have copied a book which is having more than 1000 pages with the book copy module. Now the new book copy has all working ...
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How can I ensure this block is properly cached?

I have been trying to get the some book menus displayed by nice menu, and after asking some questions on stackoverflow 1 and stackoverflow 2 settled on this code. My ultimate intention is to turn it ...
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What is the hook to alter links in the Book Outline tree?

What is the theme hook to alter links in the book outline like theme_menu_link__menu does for menus? Or is there a way to make theme_menu_link__menu apply changes to a tree view of the Books? Not ...
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Using book navigation links in template

I want to customize my book pages and I created a page which is called node-book.tpl.php Now I want to print all book navigation links separately. For example I want to print $next_link. But I ...
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How to migrate a book from Drupal 6 to a menu in Drupal 7

Recently I came across a situation where I had to migrate a book with lots of links into a menu (since the customer wanted a simple navigational menu). I came up with some code that worked pretty ...
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Get book bid to display at search results page

I'm trying to tweak my search results template to include the book root title at the bottom of every search results snippet. I have several books with very similar titles and content and i'd like to ...
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URL of the first node of specific content type in the book

How to get the URL of the first node of specific content type within current book. So lets imagine that I have a book with the following structure: Story Chapter Page ...
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Parent article title in View

Suppose I have Book and View modules, and two nodes 'Parent' and 'Child' of type 'Article'. 'Child' is referencing 'Parent' as a parent book in the 'Book outline' tab on the edit page. I have a view ...
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How to limit content type of parent in book

Is it possible to create sort of content types hierarchy that will manage which content types can be in parent -> child relationship in a book. For example I want all my books to have the ...
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book module navigation horizontal submenu

I am using the book module navigation block to display links to book pages. I was wondering if it was possible to alter it so rather than the children links appearing below the parent, they would ...
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How to create a menu for current book

I want to create a menu that will be shown on the node if it is part of a book. For example like this: That menu should be shown for all books, which means I don't want to have a separate block for ...
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create a menu based on the parent of a drupal book

I've been working with the book module bundled with drupal 7 and have a question. Say i have a book x, and this book contains 4 pages which each have 2 children giving a structure like this: Book x ...
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Progress of a user on completion of a book

Is there a way to show the progress of a user on navigation through a book? The best solution will show % of pages that user opened/completed in current book.
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Next/Previous button for nodes within a book

I want to have Next and Back buttons for nodes within a book. What is the easiest way to achieve this?
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populating a book into drupal 7 based on a form submission

I have been looking into drupal 7 and I am currently trying to create some multi page content all about one subject. Consequently I'm looking into the default book module built in to drupal as its ...
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Make references with Book Chapter module

The book chapter module http://drupal.org/project/bookchapters automatically numbers the chapters of your book. Does anyone know how to use this module in each book page for references ? For example, ...
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Content Strategy: Similar but unique content

I am building a Drupal 7 site and need some help with my content strategy. One type of content I regularly work with are workshop/conference pages. Each workshop/conference may have one or more of ...
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Bibliography Bibtex with book pages

Is there any way of having a shared bibtex bibliography in a book ? For example, I want to have one book page "References" where I put all my references and then in all my book pages, I can reference ...
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Edit default views (books, basic page, etc)

I am using Views 3 with drupal 7. Views provide you some default views so you can edit them and customize them. I want to do the same thing, for example, with book pages. I don't want to start from ...
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Book outline with organic groups

I have several organic groups (og) and each og has several books pages. I have three groups : A, B and C. When a user from group A is creating a book page, I want to show him only the books ...
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Display book hierarchy of one organic group with Panels

I am using organic groups for a tutorial website. I have one group for each tutorial. For example, Java Group C++ Group Python Group etc. For each Group, I have a tutorial using the book module ...
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How to Migrate static html files to Book - Migrate Module

I have almost 5000 static html files which belongs to different books.Please give me some direction How to migrate this html files to book. I am able to migrate html files to Drupal. But how should ...
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Can I make a Drupal Book page parent with no content?

Is it possible to Organize Drupal Book pages under parent pages that are just headings, are not links and have no content? I want to separate pages under headings but I don't want to create pages for ...
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How to set active trail when using book?

I'm creating a sub theme for Omega and am using a book for hierarchical navigation. The problem I have is that when I click on a link that is in the third level of navigation, the active trail isn't ...
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'Create new book' in Drupal 6 won't create, only shows loading icon

Through the admin, Anytime I try to create a new book in Drupal via 'Create Content' > Book page and select '', the loading icon hangs there. When I save the entire page, it creates the page but it ...
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Safely delete book and its child pages

I have a site with two books, each having about 300-350 pages each. I want to delete one of the book and its child pages. I was able to load the pages using some custom coding. I also came across, ...
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VBO run php script to set bid of many nodes

I have imported many book nodes but the book outline was lost, even the book main page information and to which book a node belongs. So I though about setting book root manually and then use VBO to ...
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Use Book different order than weight and title

I am wondering how to change the default order of weight, title for Book in Drupal 6. I have a set of nodes displayed inside a page that use a estructured book. The problem is that i want to display ...
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Ajax error for book navigation menu links

I am trying to ajaxify menu links for the book module's navigation. Here is the code: function omega_preprocess_menu_link(&$variables) { if ($variables['element']['#original_link']['module'] == ...
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Book module, taxonomies, url path settings, and breadcrumbs

I am a recent convert to Drupal from Joomla, and while I'm starting to get the hang of it, I just ran into a question that I need some expert advice on. I'd like to have online versions of a print ...
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Include a View page in a Book Outline

I have a site that heavily uses the book module to organize hierarchical documents. I would like to include a View in a Book Outline. Here is a simplified example: The Parts Department of a company ...
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Create sub pages without using books

What is the best way to create sub pages in Drupal 7 that has more than one level without using Book module?
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How to add a book page: material types empty

I run a Drupal 7 website since a year and have been always upgrading it - up to the version 7.10. I have 2 Books and users' Blog at my web site. One of the Books is holding "Site Help" and "Imprint" ...
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Display child count after each page in book navigation

I'm building a hierarchical site. and I'm using the Book module. The desired output for each listed node in the book navigation is "Page 1 (node count) (last comment date)." The question was asked on ...
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Respect parent's node access level (Book)

I was wondering if there is a way (using some hooks for example) so the child pages in a book respect their parents access level, meaning if user doesn't have the access to view the parent node, he ...
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Is this the right way to do this? Inserting a block into the content body field of a node

I'm very new to using Drupal 7 and trying to understand the correct way to insert a book navigation menu block into the content field of a node, or any field/block of content into anything for that ...
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Print all the pages in the same level in a book

I am have a book like this About Us --Overview --Vision --Mission I want there to be menu like this in the left side when the user is in any of there page. --Overview --Vision ...
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Best book to learn Gmap & location modules

Can anyone please suggest a good book to learn GMap Module and the Location module usage?
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Getting book pages in same level like getting childpages

I have a book called courses with several subpages, I want to show the list of ot other subpages when one subpage is open. Example: -Courses ---Course1 ---Course2 ---Course3 ---course4 I want to ...
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Best approach to create a troubleshouting section?

I am looking to create some kind of troubleshooting section on a website. Sort of like the Windows help with some sections, questions and answers. I was thinking of doing this with a regular Book, ...
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Theming book navigation block to generate drop-down menus

I have a 3 level deep book navigation block. I'd like to change the menu tree HTML output in the following way: For each level of the tree, create a li and inside it put an anchor tag with the ...
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Book module versus Taxonomy module

The Book and the Taxonomy modules are very similar for organising content in a hierarchy structure. Both modules: Allow Multi level hierarchies Can be accessed by Views All custom theming via ...
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Is it possible to make the Book Outline a mandatory field when creating a new book page?

I would like to make sure that certain content types always have a parent book/page. Is there a way to do this, by JavaScript, by modifying the book module or whatever?
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Ability to 'mark' nodes and build a book functionality

I am looking for ways to do the following: users (both anonymous and authenticated) 'mark' nodes in some fashion to say that they want paper copies sent to them users can set quantity of the paper ...
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How can I make the Book Navigation also show the Summary of the Child Page?

Currently the Book module will create a navigation of links to each of it's children pages. I need that navigation to also include a teaser or summary from the child page. This is for Drupal 7.