support September 2010

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Is Drupal Appropriate for Our Site?
by Rich Shepard 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

This may seem trivial, but all I read about Drupal, including the introduction in the ORA book that arrived today stresses the application of the Drupal framework/CMS for community-content based Web sites (or e-commerce sites). My very small consulting company doesn't fall in either category. Most of the pages on our site are static; I'll add new newsletters or white papers to the documents.shtml page, but that's about it. I would like to add polls, a form-based e-mail capability for those who prefer to ask for information that way rather than via regular e-mail, and -- perhaps -- the ability to comment on issues raised in newsletters and white papers. This is why I ask whether Drupal is really the appropriate tool for me to learn and apply. I don't know that any professional services consulting company's Web site actually generates clients. I know that a poor site can drive away potential clients, but in the 17 years I've run my business no one has hired us because they found our Web site somehow and decided they needed our services. Of course, if I can actually generate new business via a spiffy, Durpal-based site, I'll be very pleased to have that result. You can see the current site at http://www.appl-ecosys.com/. I'm completely open to suggestions to make it more of an attactant, and whether Drupal is appropriate for this type of site. Rich

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Javascript source error
by Scott Holmes 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

I'm including some javascript in a module. The script: echo "<script type=\”text/javascript\” src=\”http://images.citysearch.net/assets/pfp/scripts/tracker.js\”></script>"; echo "<noscript>"; This results in an error: Failed to load source for: http://onepagers/node/%5C%E2%80% 9Dhttp://images.citysearch.net/assets/pfp/scripts/tracker.js%5C%E2%80%9D It's adding the local url to the remote url and of course failing. know I'm missing something fundamental here. l() is inappropriate Thanks

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Mail Transfer Agent (Exim4) setup
by Gary Roach 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

I hope someone knows what they are doing out there. I use outgoing.verizon.net as my smarthost. It requires a login of user: passwd and also authenticates the source of the email using DNS lookup. I have been using swaks for trouble shooting with a command line like: swaks --auth --to <my email name>@verizon.net --server outgoing.verizon.net This returns a list of things with the last few lines being what is important: <- 235 2.7.0 LOGIN authentication successful. -> MAIL FROM:<root(a)cruncher.domain> <** 550 5.1.8 invalid/host-not-in-DNS return address not allowed -> QUIT <- 221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye. === Connection closed with remote host. Now I know that the 550 error statement is pretty straight forward but does host-not-in-DNS mean that I have to add something to my verizon account, use an existing mail account in one of the log files or somehow use one of the pieces of information returned by the hosts program. Verizon help desk is less than useless. No documentation (2 day search) or the Debian mailing list seems to give me the information I need. This is an installation that must be on every server in the world. It must not be that hard to setup or am I than dumb (I just finished a BS degree in mathematics and age 74). Gary R.

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Allowed Values and Content types
by Roger 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Thanks Steve, I have no PHP knowledge or skills, wouldn't know how or where to start. Thanks anyway Roger On 09/21/2010 03:16 PM, support-request(a)drupal.org wrote: > If you notice under the "Allowed values list" area there is a PHP code text area (collapsed by default). In there you can put PHP code that dynamically generates your list of options for the list. Your code just needs to return a keyed array of the options for the list. > > Steve > > On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Roger wrote: > > >> > I have a number of content types which apparently cannot be concatenated >> > because I can't create appropriate Select Lists from any field in a >> > content Type. >> > One such contains names and contact details. >> > >> > I find that drupal seems to be limited to creating select lists from >> > only the Title field of a content type which means no Select List on >> > first name or Last name, city or post code. >> > This seems to be a severe limitation in setting up an input form content >> > type. >> > >> > Q1. >> > When creating a new content type, is there a way to create a select list >> > drop down from any or every field in a content type with out hard coding >> > the "Allowed Values"? >> > >> > Q2. Can a view be used to create Select List drop down fields for a new >> > content type? >> > >> > Who should be contacted with suggestion for Drupal UI improvement. >> > >> > thanks in advance >> > Roger >>

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advanced forum: how can I split answers to pages?
by Jarry 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi, I'm using advanced_forum module, and I am quite satisfied, except for one thing: I have noticed, all answers are on the same page. If a certain forum-topic has 45 answers, they are all on the same page, that page is quite long and if there are many pictures, it takes long time to generate the page. How could I force advanced_forum to split answers let's say to 20 per pages? I checked Administer > Content management > Forums and there is "Topics per page: 25". But I did not find anything like "Answers per page", or "Replies per page". I also checked advanced_forum settings, but did not find anything relevant... Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.

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Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 64, Issue 43
by Moges Kelklie 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Are professional services available for drupal production implementation ? -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of support-request(a)drupal.org Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:41 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: support Digest, Vol 64, Issue 43 Send support mailing list submissions to support(a)drupal.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.drupal.org/listinfo/support or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to support-request(a)drupal.org You can reach the person managing the list at support-owner(a)drupal.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of support digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Weird mysql error when creating new forum (Shai Gluskin) 2. Drupal's Audio Module and Accessibility to Screen Readers (Stuart Lawler) 3. Re: Problem with file upload (Cog Rusty) 4. Re: Problem with file upload (Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli) 5. Re: Drupal's Audio Module and Accessibility to Screen Readers (Simone Dal Maso) 6. Re: Drupal's Audio Module and Accessibility to Screen Readers (Stuart Lawler) 7. Views incorrect default order (Marolijo - Pol maresma) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:38:03 -0400 From: "Shai Gluskin" <shai(a)content2zero.com> Subject: Re: [support] Weird mysql error when creating new forum To: support(a)drupal.org Message-ID: <9f68efb70804270738k112a99e5sf8aca328b1b6acfd(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cog and others, I fixed the problem with your help but with some modifications to the instructions. Thought I'd follow up with the fuller story. The problem occurred because I imported hundreds of categories without ever manually resetting the term_data_tid row in the sequences table. In order to found what what I should set the value to, I needed to browse the term_data table to see what the highest used number was. Again, thanks so much! Shai On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai(a)content2zero.com> wrote: > thanks so much, Mike, Earnie and Cog, > > Yes I'm using D 5.7. There is lots of information here to get me started > on solving this problem. Thank you so much. > > Shai > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai(a)content2zero.com> > > wrote: > > > > Drupallers, > > > > > > > > When trying to create a new forum, I get this error: > > > > > > > > > user warning: Duplicate entry '10' for key 1 query: INSERT INTO > > term_data > > > > (tid, name, description, vid, weight) VALUES (10, 'Sellers Forum', > > '', 4, 0) > > > > in /home/cmp/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172. > > > > > > > > Why is Drupal trying to run a query to insert info data into the > > term_data > > > > table? > > > > > > Because forums are terms in the taxonomy vocabulary "Forums". And for > > > some reason, Drupal attempted to create a term with ID=10 while there > > > was already a term with this ID, instead of taking the next available > > > ID. There could be many reasons. It could happen in a bizarre > > database > > > setup or in a multisite with some shared and some separate tables in > > > some cases. > > > > > > > > > A follow-up to add: I am guessing that you are running Drupal 5 or > > earlier, because this is very unlikely to happen in Drupal 6. If so, > > using phpMyAdmin go to the "sequences" table, select "Browse", and > > find the row "term_data_tid". If you see an ID=9 in that row, change > > it to 10. So the next term to be created will be 11 and you are > > unblocked. > > > > > > > > > > > I'm adding the forum at: > > example.com/en/admin/content/forum/add/forum (the > > > > "en" is for English, I'm using translation module). > > > > > > > > As usual, any help would be appreciated! > > > > > > > > Shai > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > > > > > > > > -- > > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > > >

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CCK Select dropdown ordering and selecting "other"
by Mutuku Ndeti 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hellos, Is there a way of telling cck to arrange select options alphabetically? And is it possible to have a text box that is only availble when users choose "other" option in the select box? Thanks

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Filter views on multiple fields
by ceooph+drupallist＠gmail.com 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi list, I have a content type with multiple fields (name, tel, email, ...). I have created a view to list all nodes of this content type. I able to sort this view by names, tel, ... But now, I want to filter this view by ONE filter textbox and not one for name, an other for tel, ... How can I do that ? I try to use custom text to concatenate all fields but I can't filter my view on custom text field ! I have 2 solutions in mind. Create my own filter or concatenate cck fields into one and filter on it. But I don't know how do that. Do you have some idea ? Or how can I do that ? Thanks in advance for your help.

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Upload error HTTP 0
by josé fernandez 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, I created a content type or I can download several pdf files. I downloaded the first file without problem but the second I have the following error: Have you any idea? Thanks You

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Select list from fields
by Roger 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

I have a number of content types which apparently cannot be concatenated because I can't create appropriate Select Lists from any field in a content Type. One such contains names and contact details. I find that drupal seems to be limited to creating select lists from only the Title field of a content type which means no Select List on first name or Last name, city or post code. This seems to be a severe limitation in setting up an input form content type. Q1. When creating a new content type, is there a way to create a select list drop down from any or every field in a content type with out hard coding the "Allowed Values"? Q2. Can a view be used to create Select List drop down fields for a new content type? Who should be contacted with suggestion for Drupal UI improvement. thanks in advance Roger

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