[support] Basic help getting started

[Steven Peck]

There is NO centralized Fantastico install of Drupal.  Fantastico installs are maintained by individual service providers.  I think I will add a page with common Fantastico issues reported by users to the handbook.
 
The most common is that people never read the install.txt and miss step 6, a very important step.
 
There is a handbook page:  Drupal version numbers and which version you should use
http://drupal.org/node/27362 in the top level of the /handbook page that explains this.
 
 

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Bruce Whealton
Sent: Sat 1/14/2006 9:04 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: RE: [support] Basic help getting started


   I noticed something interesting.  The documentation was pointing out how incompatible 4.7 4.6, 4.5, and 4.4 are in terms of themes, and perhaps modules.  Fantatico is used for the installations of Drupal and it now installs Drupal 4.5 I think.  So, when the themes that I got that were 4.6 versions seemed to work, the idea that I was using the 4.6 version of the theme may have explained some few bugs or problems.  They seemed to work ok, but I guess that might explain some things.  I just noticed that the themes and modules have different versions that just won't work if paired with the wrong version of Drupal.  So, we don't have backwards compatibility with themes or modules, correct?
 
Bruce

Steven Peck <speck at blkmtn.org> wrote:

	menu_otf or menu on the fly module.
	The functionality is built into Drupal 4.7.
	
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	From: support-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Jason Flatt
	Sent: Thu 1/12/2006 7:22 PM
	To: support at drupal.org
	Subject: Re: [support] Basic help getting started
	
	
	
	On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:30, Bruce Whealton wrote:
	>
	> Here's another question relating to the prior posts I had on creating
	> content and adding it to a menu. I thought that there was a way to have a
	> story, page, book page, etc when you publish it select where it should
	> appear on the menu, i.e. with parent Navigation or parent mycustom
	> menu/mysubmenu etc. Can that be done and how?
	
	It is not automatic, but you can create menu and submenu items like you are
	asking about. First you have to make sure the Menu module is enabled in
	admin/modules. Next go to admin/menu and go to town. You can add menu items
	to the main Navigation menu, or add a separate menu. If you add a new menu,
	you'll need to go to admin/block to show it.
	
	> Then the question that follows is what I think is already answered for me
	> sufficiently. But, I was planning to create a site with Drupal for an
	> Architectural firm. The idea was to give them a way to maintain the site,
	> update it, etc. without me when I finish. I'm not assuming the customer
	> can do any programming or web design. That can and has been done for
	> companies/customers, with Drupal, correct? Only when certain
	> administrative tasks are required would they need to call me again. That's
	> reasonable to do with Drupal, correct? Thanks,
	
	Yes, that is correct.
	
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