[support] can't reorder blocks after upgrade from 5 to 6

[Jody Cleveland]

Thanks! That worked perfectly. Far from ideal, but doable. I had  
cleared all caches after the upgrade, made sure my theme was enabled,  
and most blocks were behaving. But, a few weren't. When looking in the  
database, I noticed that a bunch were at '10' which I'm guessing the  
ones I was having problems with were reverting to alphabetical since  
they were all ten. So, I manually put in numbers that were higher and  
that took.

- jody

On Dec 7, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Shai Gluskin wrote:

> Jody and gang,
>
> I'd recommend going into the db itself (via phpMyAdmin or the  
> command line or another tool, whatever) and check on the weight  
> field in the blocks table.
>
> From what I understand, the sort order of blocks on the back end  
> hasn't really changed with 6; it's only the front end that has  
> changed.
>
> You might want to truncate (delete) all the data in that table and  
> start over. Since that is a required field that doesn't except  
> "NULL" and has a default of "0," it will reset all the weights for  
> all blocks to 0. If you've got a gazillion blocks and maybe  
> different settings for different themes, you might not want to do  
> that.
>
> In that case, I'd try just changing the weights of just the blocks  
> you want  to re-order directly in the db and see if you get the  
> results you want.
>
> Of course, you should back up your db before fussing like this.
>
> Report back,
>
> Shai
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jody Cleveland <georgedamonkey at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> I recently upgraded from Drupal 5.12 to 6.6 and now I'm unable to
> rearrange block order. I click and drag blocks to where I want them,
> and as soon as I save it reverts back to the way it was. I tried a new
> site within drupal 6, and that works fine so I'm pretty sure it has
> something to do with the upgrade.
>
> Any ideas what may be wrong?
>
> - jody
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