October 2007 - support - lists.drupal.org

'News'-type feature required
by The Janitor 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

26 October 2007 - 07:23 (where I live) support(a)drupal.org Hello support, I'm developing a site using the Abac theme and would like to publish short (say, 3-4 sentences) 'headlines' in the left sidebar. These headlines wouldn't relate to any other story/page. I can't work out how to do this. Is there a module that does this or can it be done with the basic installation? Many thanks. -- Best regards, William mailto:thejanitor@fastmail.fm Flying with The Bat! Professional version 3.99.3 The author recommends NOD32 (www.eset.com) as the most effective and efficient anti-virus software.

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How to display the users real name as author?
by Luc Geers 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hi, The users of my website haves a numerical code that I want to use as login. I would like to have the users real name displayed as "posted by" on the articles (and not "posted by 65432100178"). I use the contact_realname module to define a profile_name field, but don't find how to display the users name as posted by. Can anybody help me? Thanks! Luc

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URL Authentication
by Chris McCreery 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

I am working on a project of integrating Drupal with an existing site that has a members login, the drupal site would only be accessible by members that have logged into the main site. So for instance: User accesses www.site.com Logs in to members only site Now can access the drupal site drupal.site.com My question is what is the best way to do this, we don't want users to log in twice, or to have to recreate the users in drupal each time a new user registers on the main site. Thanks -- Chris McCreery

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theming primary links, or absolute paths when drupal is in a sub-directory
by Amanda B Hickman 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

I'm puzzling through a few things at once and starting to hit walls on this one as well. I've got drupal set up in a subdirectory of a larger site. That larger site is in subversion and I run a staging site and a few local incarnations of it, which means that the site's domain name changes periodically, from "staging.example.com" to "example.local" or "www.example.com" Right now, I've got the site's overall primary links in drupal as primary links, and I'd like to keep them there, but drupal is gobbling up the absolute paths even though they're absolute: I gave the menu path as "/news/" and drupal points to "http://staging.example.com/drupal//news/" when I'm aiming for "http://staging.example.com/news" I spent a lot of time monkeying with clean URLs on the theory that they'd fix this, only to discover ... nope. I've looked around for a themeable function that would let me wrestle links into being relative to the site as a whole, not relative to drupal, but I'm not seeing it. This doesn't appear to be controlled by "theme_menu_links" http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_menu_links/5 Any suggestions? Thanks, Amanda -- Amanda B Hickman (s) amandabee (a) amandahlinc (w) http://velociraptor.info

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slideshow template
by Marolijo - Pol maresma 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hello, I'm trying to place a slideshow (I tried cck_slideshow, slideshow, and slideshow_creator...) into a node-type.tpl.php without luck. Can I do this? I don't know how to use the TAG to place it. Thank's. Pol Maresma / <mailto:pol@polnetwork.com> pol @ polnetwork.com PolNetwork.com / Serveis d'Internet msn: marolijo

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Views and Panels Solution
by Ian Elwood 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

So, my homepage was displaying the full posts in the left panel instead of the teaser, which I wanted. It was pulling from a view called, features. I actually had to go into the settings for the individual content type "company profile" to change the settings. At the bottom of a long list were the on off switches for the teaser, and I had them all set to on. Now only two are on, and two display for each post on the homepage and the view. Thanks for everyones help who emailed! --ian--

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redirect login block when user enters wrong user/pass
by John Barreiros 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Hi First, I realize what I'm doing isn't the most usable, but it's how the client wants it. On the homepage, the user login block is styled all fancy and compact. Unfortunately, it's compactness prevents a place for an error message if the user messes up their username or password. So, what I'd like to do, when the form fails validation, is redirect the user to "/user" which displays the regular login form along with the error messages that would of displayed within the block. I tried the following (in my own module), function myutility_form_alter($form_id, &$form) { switch ($form_id) { case 'user_login_block': $form['#validate'] = array('utility_user_login_validate' => array($form_id, $form)); unset($form['links']); break; } } function myutility_user_login_validate($form_id, $form_values) { user_login_validate($form_id, $form_values); if (count(form_get_errors()) > 0) { drupal_set_message('test error message'); //print "here"; drupal_goto('user'); } } The drupal_goto doesn't seem to work here. I'm fairly confident the code is making it to the drupal_goto because if I uncomment the "print" statement is does get called and prints out "here". Any ideas why drupal_goto isn't working in this case? Thanks for the help.

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One Block, Two Weights?
by Shai Gluskin 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

For the Aggregator block, I want it to show up in a sidebar at a certain weight on one page, but at a different weight on another page. Is this time for a php snippet (any leads?) or is there an obvious solution I'm missing. Shai

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Display Field Totals in Views
by Chris McCreery 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Does anyone know of a module, or how in general I would get this to work, i'm no programmer so the simpler the better. I have a small time tracking site I am building but am stuck at how I would display the total time spent in specific views. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Chris McCreery

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Front page settings
by Ian Elwood 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

I have two panes on my front page, each pulling from a view. I wanted to make them display a teaser of the whole node, but they are displaying the entire thing. I looked at admin/content/node-settings and everything is in order there. I checked its view type: teaser and it is set to page. The panels are pulling from that view, then displaying on the front page. Any ideas? --ian--

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