July 2006 - support - lists.drupal.org

Re: [support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...
by dondi_2006 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

>that would loose a lot in the convertion. Surely it would be far more > beneficial to write a converter from OOo to an html subset for use > with a cms, for example drupal.... There remains just one tiny problem - doing it. who said I'm not doing it? I have said several times that I have or am already working on the other parts of this problem. Including testing OOo from the command line. Granted, most of that is so ugly or so heavily customized for my own quirks that it wouldn't work for anybody else, but certainly I'm not waiting to get it from Santa. It's just that trying to add the 2enter-in-drupal" step, instead, is proving to be much more difficult than all the rest... > But then probably it would be easier to write an OOo > pluging to export to drupal directly. This would be wrong. Then one would be back at square one when using another CMS (sometimes you join projects already running from years in another systems). Also, it wouldn't cover cases when initial content is generated in some other way. The right solution is that each CMS finds its own way to accept content from the command line, and nothing more. Then you can do pipelines the right way, that is putting together your own pieces. A monolithic ooo -> drupal plugin would NOT be a solution. The ooo lists already receive "how can I blog directly from ooo to X" every other day, with X a different blog/CMS platform every time ciao, O.

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Re: [support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...
by dondi_2006 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Greg wrote: > Well, you were bemoaning the lack of a "real, full, > screen word processors and HTML editors, with spell > checking, macros and lots of other goodies." That > client (and performancing and...) gives most of > what you were complaining about. Sorry, my fault here. What I meant is that it doesn't make sense to have _one_ different "real/full editor" for every CMS, or every "rich text" use case one has to work with. This is what I find really absurd. It is like using a different mail client for every mailing list you subscribe. > It would be handy to know more details about your situation: Right now I have some hundred opendocument files. Length is anything from 1 to 100 pages. structure is relatively simple, almost no tables or graphics. After importing those, I'll start to write new material regularly or import it from other external sources (my own mail archives, for example). How often I'll have to update which percentage of pages I don't really know now. So there are a lot of different inputs, but I could (I already am!) writing myself a different X -> HTML script. Is the next step, ie how to import that in Drupal from the command line, which is missing. > > What I see is that Drupal, Wordpress, and basically > > every blog/cms I know of is implicitly designed for > > author(s) who publish (very) short texts, only once > > in a while. > > Ok, I'll re-assert my point. Imagine your requirements > in a multi publisher environment. I don't have to imagine that. This thread is about a website I am building, and will run, all by myself. But I am also a member of other multi-author portals ran exactly like you say, done with Drupal, SPIP, Plone and others. Each site with different needs, each already existing (=I can't have it changed to drupal), each with its _own_ darned version of the text editing interface..., all mutilated, different buttons or names for the same task, different spelling checkers (= I have to re-define an acronym or custom term in ANY CMS I have to use, all while I did the same in OpenOffice years ago...) > Multiple people editing multiple text files on > their client side and running scripts that directly > import them into the system. That's what you want, > right? No, I have these admittedly weird and advanced needs only for a portal which I'll run myself, as said above. However, my co-authoring experience in those other portals I mentioned, while closer to your scenario, still sees several of us working OFF LINE for the same reason: the online interface, whatever the CMS is, sucks so badly that: * we exchange by email successive OpenOffice revisions of anything longer than one page * when we agree on that, we flip a coin to find the unlucky one which has to import it in the CMS GUI * generally, only _minor_ editing, like correcting typos or updating single URLs, is done directly in the GUI. > Well, how do you control > versioning? How do you control the individual > preferences ...How do you sync a local copy back with > the server copy (since there are multiple editors...)? In your scenario (~wikipedia, that is _looooooots_ of occasional authors who all publish occasionally, publish only one or a few (short) pages, and almost never interact with each other) I agree with you that the current CMSs do a more than decent job, and that other architectures probably wouldn't work. > I'm not sure I've ever heard/seen anyone do what you're talking about. > > people use all kinds of CMS for a wide variety of tasks > including very long and highly formatted documents that > get revised on a regular basis (have you seen the drupal > handbooks, for instance?). I have the drupal handbooks bookmarked and printed out. I am using them daily these days. I consider their quality (as one ORGANIC, COHERENT corpus of usefully interrelated information (*)) pretty low, and a good example of what I am saying: even if the single authors are good and committed, they are limited from their tools: the current generation of CMSs is not designed for (what I consider) serious, continuous work. I don't remember if I already said it, but I am sincerely enjoying this discussion, it's not my intention to troll, and I don't mean to whine or make a joke of anybody's hard work. I am just saying that the quality and usefulness of Drupal and other tools, while very great, is not exactly what is commonly perceived: I like what I am learning through this discussion, which is really helping me to understand several sw design concepts. Ciao, O. * regardless of formatting, and I'm not even referring to the single pages which often are quite good

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Re: [support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...
by dondi_2006 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

> Some thoughts off the top of my head: > > It might be just as easy to create a small command line > program that knows how to talk to the blog API, and > since there are open source clients that already > do that, there is even sample code to look at. Maybe > one of those clients can even be run from the command > line, I don't know. I had already thought of this. Googling for it did not yeld any result. My next step in this direction is to contact blGtK's author and ask him if it can be run from the command line. > I can certainly see the need for what you are doing. In > an ideal world, everybody would use their favorite text > editor / word processor to write everything, Exactly. It's not an ideal world; it is what, as I said in the other answer, what we already do with email. Yes, I know it's not exactly the same case, email is not co-authored etc... but what surprised me was to find nobody is trying to go in the same direction with CMSs. ciao, O.

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Formatting Blocks?
by Cozzi 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I've using Drupal for a while - I think it's fantastic! Question: Is there any way to control the location/format of blocks such as "Search"? When I elect to have it placed in the header it takes up a bit more than double the horizontal space (I think) is required. The Theme that I've chosen is PushButton so all blocks are indicated by a header Square (Left justified) with the White Arrow within (arrow pointing to lower right), a separating line under the square, then the contents of the block (menu, Search form etc...) It would be great if you could control the formatting of the block segments (eg: Making the header Square very small or even eliminating it, or maybe forcing the content of the block to Right Justify? etc...) Any suggestions, or are these based on the Theme and therefore it is what it is? Thank you Cosmo

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Howto website
by ken 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A quick and dirty howto for drupal. Hope it helps someone. http://www.mybizguard.com/node/36 Cheers! Ken

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Re: [support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...
by dondi_2006 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Greg wrote: > > Nobody has exactly what you are looking for because > your request is very specific.... It's not a common > way for people to interact with a Drupal site, Yes, realizing that nobody felt the need to do this before is indeed the most unexpected part :-) > I think that the suggestions for "look at this module" > or "try that extension" were meant to show you a base > of code that does similar things so that you can modify I was and still am fully prepared to do a lot of custom scripting to get this working. I am well aware that a lot of my own requirements are so unique to my situation that I have to do them myself. I have no problem with that. I _am_ already doing them, actually, for all the other parts of the job, like automatic conversion to drupal-acceptable HTML of many files in other formats. It's just that, in my original script flow diagram, the box titled "now upload this file in one new Drupal node" was the one that I was most confident, almost certain, that already existed and was well documented... > The rich client side XUL administrator summer of code > project (I believe) gets closer to what you are looking > to find. That looks like the performancing firefox plugin. Something great when you have to post short stuff, once in a while, certainly not for "volume" production. As such, I'll surely use it when ready. Thanks for signalling it. > Drupal sites are generally used for community > content where it is created by many people. > In that case, it makes more sense to use an in-browser > WYSIWYG editor. I disagree here. I don't think the intended *number* of authors matters at all. What I see is that Drupal, Wordpress, and basically every blog/cms I know of is implicitly designed for author(s) who publish (very) short texts, only once in a while. I will try to hack mailhandler now (already asked privately for suggestions to the maintainer, hope he'll answer). Any other pointer, comment, mailhandler patch, etc... is still very welcome of course. TIA, O.

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Re: [support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...
by dondi_2006 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

I wrote: > in my original script flow diagram, the > box titled "now upload this file in one new Drupal node" > was the one that I was most confident, almost certain, > that already existed and was well documented... > [...] > What I see is that Drupal, Wordpress, and basically every > blog/cms I know of is implicitly designed for author(s) > who publish (very) short texts, only once in a while. ... and the more I go on, the more this looks true: > I will try to hack mailhandler now (already asked > privately for suggestions to the maintainer, hope he'll > answer). answer just arrived: > mailhandler is not suited for your needs, and i don't > know of a script that is. sorry. Bah... O.

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Re: [support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...
by dondi_2006 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Gerhard wrote: > mailhandler can read from the local filesystem, but the > input has to be in mbox format. It can handle mbox format? Not maildir or similar? That would be great. Apart from this, I have just downloaded the mailhandler source code. I see functions like mailhandler_retrieve, and others which seem to want only a full blown mailbox system. How/where do I plug in to tell it (running php from the command line, not via a browser!!!) "here, open this *FILE* and then do your job"? Thanks a lot, O.

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create company website using drupal
by Adrian Mak 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

I'm new on drupal. I want to use it to create a normal company website which with a navigation bar including links like for example about us services products solutions contact us All contents of the about is only administrate and create by company's web adminisatrator therefore it's not necessary to show a "user login" for people to registeration. Then I first create a "About us" but every time I access the site e.g. http://www.mycompany.com It will display a "user login" block if browser session is not logged in. How do I configure such that anonymous people just browse the website's contents I created without showing the "user login"block I found some show cases developed using drupal, they don't present with a user login block http://www.latuk.com/ http://www.tacticaltech.org/ how they did it ? ps. the layout something like http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/11300/11346-b.jpg you can see that this type of website is not necessary to provide user registration function

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I need help with upgrading The Daily Gotham
by blogdiva＠culturekitchen.com 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Sorry I am sending this out on a Sunday, but it's the only day I have had to take care of this. I am trying to upgrade from 0.8.0.3 which is running on Drupal 4.5 to either the latest CivicSpace or the latest Drupal 4.6. I can't upgrade to 4.7 because there are modules I am using that have not been upgraded to that distribution. Here's what I did : After reading most of what is in the pages under http://civicspacelabs.org/home/faq/installation?page=1 http://civicspacelabs.org/home/faq/installation?page=2 http://civicspacelabs.org/home/faq/installation?page=3 I followed the instructions at http://civicspacelabs.org/home/upgrade This is what I did : 1. Copy dailygotham.com to dailygotham_upgrade 2. Copy liza_dailygotham to liza_dailygotham_2 3. I deleted everything in dailygotham_upgrade Now, I uploaded CivicSpace 0.8.2 BUT because it has CiviCRM, it's spewing this crap > Fatal error: Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' query: > INSERT INTO civsp_watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, > location, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (0, 'php', 'Unknown column > 'newmsg' in 'where clause' query: SELECT COUNT > (*) FROM civsp_privatemsg WHERE recipient = '0' AND > newmsg = 1 AND recipient_del = 0 in /home/liza/domains/ > dailygotham.com/public_html/dailygotham_upgrade/public_html/ > includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.', 2, '', '/ > dailygotham_upgrade/public_html/upgrade.php', '207.237.24.22', > 1151855156) in /home/liza/domains/dailygotham.com/public_html/ > dailygotham_upgrade/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66 > 4. What should be my strategy here? I have looked high and low for the page that had all the distributions of CIvicSpace but cannot find it. It would seem to me that I would have to get 0.8.1 before upgrading to the latest stuff but cannot find any of the old distributions ANYWHERE. 5. Anyhow, given that CiviCRM is conflicting with the upgrade, should I upgrade Drupal only? 6. What would that mean for the CivicSpace modules I am running? Thanks, Liza Sabater, Publisher www.culturekitchen.com www.dailygotham.com TEL - 646.552.7365 AIM - cultkitdiva SKYPE - lizasabater

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