January 2007 - support - lists.drupal.org

Andreas Marx is out of the office.
by Andreas Marx 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

I will be out of the office starting 22.01.2007 and will not return until 26.01.2007. I will be out of office with no access to my email. Please contact Bettina Wax (bettina_wax(a)col.wunderman.com) for FSO / Fordbank / eProfile issues or Michael Bammes for NPW issues (michael_bammes(a)col.wunderman.com) Best, Andreas Marx

2 1

Highlighting the blog author's comments in a blog
by Tim Vaughan 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

It's becoming more common for blogs to have their author's comments highlighted in the comments after a post (I was reminded of this while viewing Brian Jones's blog on Open XML - see http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/01/19/passing-the-openxml-st… for an example). How can I do this in Drupal? My guess is that is requires some PHP in template.php plus an extra bit of css but I'm not sure of the best way to get this done. Thanks in advance, Tim

2 2

Ending support thread
by Larry Garfield 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

This is sort of a meta-support question, but this seemed the best place to ask it. :-) I periodically respond to support items in the issue queue. As an issue, it can and should have its status set to "fixed" when the issue has been resolved, one way or another. Who decides when it's resolved, though? Should I set a support issue to fixed when I feel I've answered the question? Should I wait for the questioner to close it himself? Close it for him after he posts a "thanks that worked" post (which often doesn't happen)? Should a support ticket be a special case that auto-closes after X days of no activity? Judging by the fact that magico recently went through and closed dozens, possibly over a hundred, stale issue queues, it seems that whatever should be done isn't. What should be done? -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

3 2

Possible to set default category for custom content type?
by Jody Cleveland 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Hello, I'm running a website on Drupal 5, and I've created a custom content type. Is there a way to set a default category for that content type? - jody

5 5

choosing parent item
by martin hell 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hi there, I'm new to Drupal, so this question might be quite silly: I thought that editing an article, I could control where it is displayed by choosing the right parent item... which I did. But my definition of the parent item gets set back to 'Navigation', and 'Page not found' is displayed when clicking where it should be... Thank you very much in advance! Martin

1 0

Problem with 4.7.5 Clean URLs
by Dan KB6NU 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

One of my websites, w8pgw.org, was running on a fairly old version of Drupal, so when I saw that 5.0 had just been released, I thought now's the time to upgrade. Since it was recommended that I upgrade to the latest 4.x version, I downloaded and installed 4.7.5. I got everything working, EXCEPT "clean URLs," which were working in the last installation. With clean URLs enabled, funny things happen. The home page looks fine, but when I click on a "read more" link, the formatting goes away. For example, with clean URLs disabled, http:// www.w8pgw.org/node/83 looks fine, but with clean URLs enabled, the page doesn't seem to be picking up the theme. Another odd thing is that when I run the clean URL test, it seems to pass the test fine, but when the settings admin page reloads, it's also lost the theme. Any ideas? Regards, Dan.Romanchik { profession = webdeveloper; url = www.webpublishinggroup.com; phone = 734-930-6564; email = dan(a)danromanchik.com, kb6nu(a)w8pgw.org; }

2 3

How to choose different input formats when using tinymce?
by Jody Cleveland 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hello, I've got a site that I upgraded from 4.7.4 to 5.0. I also upgraded tinyMCE with it. I noticed that Tiny MCE makes the input formats ineffective. For example, if I choose 'php code' from the input formats when posting a new page, instead of parsing the php code, it just displays it. It does the same thing no matter which input format I choose. Any ideas what may be wrong? - jody

3 4

Tinymce problems with 5.0
by Jody Cleveland 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hello, After upgrading to Drupal 5.0 and reinstalling the Tinymce module, I just cannot get it to appear no matter what I do. It appears checked under the list of modules, and the basic settings are there, but there seems to be no option to add roles like there was before. And so i can't get the actual editor to appear. I checked all the permissions, and I followed the instructions exactly, installing it in under the sites/all/modules folder, and including the library in the "Includes" folder. I've tried reinstalling it but this doesn't help, and I'm only using a default theme at the moment. Any ideas what may be wrong? - jody

2 3

Re: [support] Problem with 4.7.5 Clean URLs
by Pat Collins 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:38:36 -0500, Dan KB6NU <kb6nu(a)w8pgw.org> wrote : > One of my websites, w8pgw.org, was running on a fairly old version of > Drupal, so when I saw that 5.0 had just been released, I thought > now's the time to upgrade. Since it was recommended that I upgrade to > the latest 4.x version, I downloaded and installed 4.7.5. > > I got everything working, EXCEPT "clean URLs," which were working in > the last installation. With clean URLs enabled, funny things happen. > The home page looks fine, but when I click on a "read more" link, the > formatting goes away. For example, with clean URLs disabled, http:// > www.w8pgw.org/node/83 looks fine, but with clean URLs enabled, the > page doesn't seem to be picking up the theme. > > Another odd thing is that when I run the clean URL test, it seems to > pass the test fine, but when the settings admin page reloads, it's > also lost the theme. > > Any ideas? If I go to www.w8pgw.org/node/83, I see that you have /node in all your css links. If I go to one of those I'm served html, not css. Pat

3 2

Re: [support] Layout question
by Metzler, David 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Greg's got it and I'd also point out that panels also provide some additional functionality that may cut down on the number of blocks that you have: * You can add an individual piece of content (node) to a panel without having to make a block out of it. * You can rename (retitle) an existing block. (e.g. random image) easily with a panel. Basically if I wanted blocks to appear across the the site, or be configurable by the user (e.g. hidden unless user says so) I'd do them in themes. If I wanted to make an entry or home page that had some blocks on it that didn't appear on other pages on the site, I'd use panels. Dave -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Greg Holsclaw Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:55 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Layout question The panels module lets you reuse blocks in a sense that they are not tied to a particular region, as when used from the blocks admin page. You can also then copy the panel, and adjust as needed to further the section pages that you mention. Greg -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruno De Bondt Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:27 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Cc: delux256-drupal(a)yahoo.com Subject: Re: [support] Layout question Hi Dave, > Yes, via a couple of ways. First I'd recommend that you examine the > Panels module which can be used to place blocks on a page with a variety > of layouts. It's probably the easiest way to get a "boxes" look that > you're talking about. > > Also I'd recommend you look at one of the themes that supports custom > theme regions, and model your new theme after that. You can make your > own regions in which you can place blocks. This way will require some > knowledge of theme development and the customization of php code within > the theme. > Is there any of the above options that you would recommend over the other? On www.indymedia.be, I built our front page using my own regions and placing blocks in them. This works great, however leads up to a great number of blocks. This number will increase even further, because we would like this "boxes" lay-out on sections' pages as well. Would the other method (using panels.module) be more efficient? Or wouldn't this make a big difference ('cause you might need the same amount of blocks)? Furthermore, could Drupal encounter problems when it has a great number (say +100) of blocks defined? Thanks, -- bruno > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On > Behalf Of Jeff Lanzarotta > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:58 AM > To: Drupal Support > Subject: [support] Layout question > > Hello, > > At the top of the Drupal site there are several colored boxes that are > always on the top of the main page. I would like to implement several > boxes like this on my site, but the contents of these boxes would be > driven off separate modules which pull their data from various database > tables. > > Is this possible? > > Thanks. > > -Jeff > > -Jeff > -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

2 1