June 2013 - support - lists.drupal.org

How to safeguard sites from unwanted users
by Kamal Palei 22 Jun '13

22 Jun '13

Dear ALL I see almost everyday in my site 2 or 3 unwanted users are created. The user id is something like *sdfdxsxvxcvbcxmv* which is totally somebody just playing. I need to block such accounts or more preferably reuse such accounts. For me the concern is , once a user is created, that user id is gone for ever. Next if I create another user, it will take up the higher UID. Assuming these things keeps happening, over few years of time we will have lot of unnecessary accounts in system, eating up resources for nothing. Even if I delete these users, still the user ID will not be reused. Within Drupal framework, is there any existing mechanism where, we can tell to re-use certain user ID when creating new users. If NOT existing, if somebody guides me, am ready to make one. Best Regards Kamal

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Configuring an RSS feed with Drupal 7
by Stuart Lawler 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hello, We are having difficulties to get the rss feed at the below link to render correctly, and specifically, the Podcasts app on iOS devices does not see any content. http://www.ncbi.ie/technologypodcast.xml I am not sure if I have configured something incorrectly in either Elements Itunes or Elements Core, which seem only to consist of a number of drop-down boxes. We are using Drupal 7. Can anyone assist? Regards, Stuart

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empty optional fields: saved node contains the token name instead of an empty section
by John Mitchell 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

I have created a content type that has some tokens within the read-only body section so that other custom fields that the user enters when they create content based on this content type are mapped to its associated token within the body section. If the user enters information within a optional field then that entered information replaces the token when the node is saved. The problem is for optional fields when they don't enter a anything within it then the saved node contains the token name instead of an empty section which is what we want. Thanks, John

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Rich text editor application in Drupal 7
by Stuart Lawler 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hello, Is there a way I can disable the Rich Text editor application in Drupal 7 on a per user basis? Some of our site administrators use assistive technology, and it does not work well with it. It would be better, if these users could have ordinary text edit fields when editing or updating pages to which they have access. Kind regards, Stuart Lawler

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private file downloads don't work with IE8 only when using hook_file_download
by John Mitchell 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

I am trying to allow files that are within the "/sites/default/files/private/" directory to available to users with correct role and this is working correctly within all browsers (including IE9) except for the IE8 browser. It does not appear to be a particular file type since it does not work with either .pdf's or .doc's extension. Is their something special that I need to do to the "mime type" so that IE8 will successfully download these files? I have listed below "hook_file_download" which determines when a requested file download is allowed based on a combination of the page $url and the requesting users role and I highlighted in bold the bottom of the function where it determines the mime type that is returned. Thanks, John function atf_retirees_file_download($uri) { $user = $GLOBALS['user']; $roles = $user->roles; $pos_inside_atf_alias = stripos($uri, '/inside-atf/'); $pos_nibin_alias = stripos($uri, '/nibin-user-area/'); if (($pos_inside_atf_alias === false && $pos_nibin_alias === false) || ($pos_inside_atf_alias !== false && !(in_array('ATF Retirees', $roles) || in_array('administrator', $roles))) || ($pos_nibin_alias !== false && !(in_array('NIBIN User Area', $roles) || in_array('administrator', $roles)))) { return -1; } else { *$mime_type = file_get_mimetype($uri);* * return array('Content-Type' => $mime_type);* } }

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Comment Access on Private Group Node
by Fred Jones 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

I am trying to work with OG in D7 and I want all groups and all group posts to be private, i.e. for members only. It seems to work BUT if I visit a group_post page as an anonymous user, I see the comments posted and the node Title. All that's hidden is the Body. I even tried adding the https://drupal.org/project/content_access module to deny access to this content type, but it didn't help. Am I missing something here? Thank you.

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Re: [support] Adding text at the top of a page set up in views
by Pia Oliver 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Why can't you use a block and put it into the "content area" (if that is the region your list of podcasts is in) and just make it the first one, and display only on this page? Pia >Hello, > >I am trying to add some explanatory text to the top of this page, >just before the list of podcast episodes. >http://www.ncbi.ie/technologypodcast > >Can anyone tell me where I can go to do this? > >We are using 'Views' and the site is built using Drupal 7. > >Regards and thanks. > >Stuart Lawler >-- >[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- "I wish my mouth had a backspace key." - Unknown www.piasworld.com

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Adding text at the top of a page set up in views
by Stuart Lawler 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Hello, I am trying to add some explanatory text to the top of this page, just before the list of podcast episodes. http://www.ncbi.ie/technologypodcast Can anyone tell me where I can go to do this? We are using 'Views' and the site is built using Drupal 7. Regards and thanks. Stuart Lawler

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Exporting a form and importing into another site.
by Tim Johnson 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

I've created a custom contact form as a node for a drupal 7 site. It is created from the webforms module. I'd like to use the same for a different site. 1)How do I _export_ the form from the "parent" site? 2)How do I _import_ the form into the new site. FYI: I have already done some research on this topic and see a number of different solutions. There are various modules mentioned with varying numbers of issues. I'd welcome opinions from the list. thanks tim -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com

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Auto login user redirect
by Selvam S 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hi, I need to redirect to a specific page in Drupal 7 when user is auto logged in using previous session. I think hook_init might be useful, but not sure. I would be thankful for your suggestion. -- Regards, Selvam KnackForge <http://knackforge.com> Acquia Service Partner <http://knackforge.com/node/54> No. 1, 12th Line, K.K. Road, Venkatapuram, Ambattur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - 600 053.

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