<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Maybe this doesn't address what you're asking, but blocks defined by various modules generally don't offer any controls over their content directly within the block configuration (except for the general block controls, such as on what pages they appear), while blocks you create will offer their "guts" to you because you're the one who created them in the first place.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Does this come close?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 4, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Jean Gazis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">By blocks, I mean the things that are called "blocks" on the admin menus, that usually go in the side columns. If I go "add block" and make a new one, such as random quote or related links, then I am able to go back later and edit it, but if I pick it off the list, I can't, and if I made a block in 4.7, it became uneditable in 5, i.e., when I go to configure the block, I see no block content, just the placement and visibility options. I am user 1 and as far as I know have given myself all the permissions. Either way, why would blocks I create behave differently than the ones that are already available, such as the standard menu blocks? <BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Earnie Boyd</B> <<A href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Quoting Jean Gazis <<A href="mailto:jgazis@gmail.com">jgazis@gmail.com</A>>:<BR><BR>> Why is it that the pre-existing blocks can't be edited, but blocks that I<BR>> create can? I have blocks I created in Drupal 4.7 that I could edit, but<BR>> when the site was moved to Drupal 5, the same blocks became uneditable. Is<BR>> there a way to modify their contents or do I have to just delete and<BR>> recreate the whole block?<BR> ><BR><BR>What do you mean by block? Does your database user have the correct<BR>permissions to be able to update the data? Does the access control for<BR>the user doing the editing have permissions to edit the ``block''? <BR><BR>Earnie<BR>--<BR>[ Drupal support list | <A href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</A> ]<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear="all"><BR>-- <BR>Jean Gazis<BR><A href="http://www.jeangazis.com">www.jeangazis.com </A><BR><A href="http://www.boxofrain.us">www.boxofrain.us</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[ Drupal support list | <A href="http://lists.drupal.org">http://lists.drupal.org</A>/ ]</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>