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CCK title field set width?
by Broyhill, Gary 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Good day Drupalers: When creating a new content type, it seems that I cannot change the width of the TITLE field. For all other fields that I create, I can set the width. Anyone know how to make this change? I found something on drupal.org saying you can do it with CSS but I wonder if that's the best or only way? http://drupal.org/node/113399#comment-193937 Thanks, -- Gary Broyhill Webmaster Lenoir-Rhyne University www.lr.edu gary.broyhill(a)lr.edu (828)328-7379

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Opening at IIT Bombay
by Shishir Kant 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi all, I am working on the Open Textbook Project at IIT Bombay as a Research Associate. We have an opening here for a professional who can help us manage the content on Drupal 6. The terms of appointment are negotiable. The project is headed by Prof S.K.Jha of the School of Management - IIT Bombay. Hope you will show interest to be a part of this venture. Best Wishes, Shishir Kant Research Associate SJM School of Management Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay Mumbai #91-9869837152

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Bundling of changes in DB and FIle System for releasing updates.
by Satish Maurya 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi, I have been using Drupal for last 2-3 months for some small site development. It was good initially when i was creating sites from scratch, but now every time there is a change request, I need to perform many steps on my local site and then on the live site. I have created a few module utilizing the FAPI and Menu system. These modules save their records in database and they don't inherit from Nodes. I have also used some contributed modules which help in theming and some which provide new content types. I found that the Features <http://drupal.org/project/features> module will keep track of changes done in CCK nodes and configurations only. Is there any tool or module that can record all the changes in Database and in File system, so that I can bundle them all and put in my live site and if something goes wrong I can revert it to the previous version. Regards, Satish Maurya

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Dreaded Font Question
by Roger 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

A serif font is supposed to be easier to read. I tend towards Bitstream Charter or occasionally TNR Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, there's noting to pick between them they are just characterless stick letters. From here on the subject of formatting a page is relevant: I think the font is not a primary consideration, all fonts are boring. I do a newsletter, all text, all bitstream charter, totally boring unless the shape of the text [box] becomes an image. People look at a page and see the inherent shape of the passage of text, how it fits on a page, in a column, does it stand out. If there is an interesting word they read more. No interesting - highlight words = boring. The formatting of sentences and paragraphs seems to make or break a passage of text. A reader should be provided the way to ascertain the message, subject, detail from a brief passage of text. If the message, topic or subject is clouded by endless surrounding text it becomes a labour to wade through and the text boring, just like this sentence. Another consideration is page layout. Text right across a page is difficult to read because the eye sees only the width of, for example, the distance between the tip of your pointer finger and the 2nd knuckle, about 40-50 mm. Each side of that fades into blur. Try columns with 6-10 px white space between, them justify the text in each column, separate paragraphs with plenty of white space and no matter what text or font is used it'll come to life. Font will not matter but serif fonts work best because the mind recognises the top half to 2/3rds of any text. Suggestion: Make 3 column in the top 3rd of a page, 2 or 4 column in the mid third and 3 column in the bottom third and put a notice or something outstanding across the bottom of the page no more than 3 lines and in a smaller font than the above. Don't have endless text scrolling down a page, no one's going to read all that and it's difficult to print in hard copy. Use headings to change or present the subject or topic of each section. You will have lively pages that are easy to read. Roger

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cache one page
by Joeri De Backer 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hello, I have a custom written module, and I want to cache one page of it. Are there modules I can use for caching one page? I don't want the rest to be cached. Thanks, Joeri

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The Dreaded Font Question
by Neil Coghlan 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Which font would you recommend for a content heavy, text heavy site? I know that's like asking "which car is best?" without listing any of the thousand criteria required to give a proper answer. I used Verdana on my dev site until someone said it looked "deadly dull". I noticed even the BBC has now dumped Verdana and gone with Arial. I know the question of web-safe fonts is very important and that for a screen environment like a website, it's probably best to go with a sans-serif font...but which one?? A good deal of my content will be of the type, blog posts, forum posts, image/vid descriptions....50-500 words, no lines too long, good line-heights used to make everything readable. I thought I was on solid ground with verdana but in retrospect, I think my friend was right. It's a bit of a dull one, our buddy Verdana! So...which one do you use? What does your overriding font-family declaration look like in your theme's CSS? For now, I've gone with: font-family:Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; but I've changed it so many times, I'm not sure of anything anymore :o) Neil

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Views-Slideshow problems
by Roger 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Using a modified sea_breeze theme in drupal 6.19 Using views slideshow I have a number of quotations, each fades every 12 seconds to the next. The background is a semi transparent png. Works very well once I am logged in but does not display the quotes before log in. What causes this please? The view block is in the Content block displaced to show in bottom right corner of the header so it is not dependent on the header for placement. If I place the views slideshow block in the header block, it does not display but does in the content and footer blocks. I used a green 2px border around the block and this can be seen when the header changes. I have tried z-index from 0 to 80, to try placing it on top of the header- no good. With the header image off, the border displays but there's no text in the block. I would appreciate some help understanding this please. Thanks roger

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Problem with drop down list in a theme
by Roger 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

I have a huge problem. I need to be able to create relationship between Contact name, Position and Region for display in 4 views, one for each region. Each Position can have up to 4 names associated with it. Some other names can hold 2 or 3 Positions. Each name is associated with one region. I need to be able to display Contact first and last name, Position and Region in a page view but be able to select the Region and the Position/s within that Region to display in a view page. The aim is for the viewer to be able to choose which region they are in, choose the Position they need help from and see the contact details. It seems that Drupal 6.19 can only create Select Lists from the Title field of any content type, this is a huge problem for me as it means I have to enter the first and last name 2 times, once in the title field and once in a content field. Is there a way around this? Also I cannot create a view to use as a select list because the title only displays as a node type not a field. The Contacts drop down seems limited to 18 names and no way of displaying any more. I have content type Contacts which contains 100 names: title [first name] Last Name field Address fields Phone fields etc. I have Content type of Positions where title contains 40 member positions like: Web Services Administrator ISP Provider Calendar Coordinator Reviewer and so on. I have a Region content type containing 4 Australian Regions. NA [Nothern Australia]One CA [Central Australia] SA [Southern Australia] WA [Western Australia] I have an Admin Services content type with fields: contacts [Displays the node:title] Positions [Displays a button list of available positions] Regions [ Region sis displayed as a drop down. I hope I've given sufficient information to obtain some help, thanks in advance. Regards Roger

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Invalid argument errors referencing block.admin.inc
by Jon Craig 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Anytime I go into Site Building, I get: * warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/****/****/drupal/modules/block/block.admin.inc on line 33. * warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/****/****/drupal/modules/block/block.admin.inc on line 52. * warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'block_admin_display' was given in /www/****/****/drupal/includes/menu.inc on line 348. And if I try to load the Block page, it's simply a mostly blank white page, with: Block Region Weight Operations At the top, in bold, and nothing else. I've looked into block.admin.inc, and I don't see anything odd/weird, but I'm certainly no expert. This is preventing me from moving our amateur radio club's new site to "live" status. Any ideas?

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recurring problem
by James R Stone 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

I have a problem I can't solve: When I go to my client's website at bartosandrini.com the *Home* tab is not highlighted, in fact a completely different tab, *Criminal/Traffic*, is highlighted. This problem showed up after one of my client's blog editors selected Promoted to front page in the *Publishing options* section. [image: original.png] These are my settings across the site In *Site Configuration* *>* *Site Information*(or /admin/settings/site-information) Default front page: *http://bartosandrini.com/ The home page displays content from this relative URL. If unsure, specify "node". In the footer section on the same page and I am using <a href="/"><u>Home</u></a> In *Site Building* *>* *Menus* *>* *Primary Links* (or /admin/build/menu/item/1964/edit) Menu settings Path: * The path this menu item links to. This can be an internal Drupal path such as *node/add* or an external URL such as *http://drupal.org*. Enter *<front> * to link to the front page. Menu link title: * The link text corresponding to this item that should appear in the menu. In *Site Building* *>* *Blocks* after selecting configure for the rotor in the content top block (or /admin/build/block/configure/views/rotor-block_1) Page specific visibility settings<http://bartosandrini.com/admin/build/block/configure/views/rotor-block_1#> Show block on specific pages: Show on every page except the listed pages. Show on only the listed pages. Show if the following PHP code returns TRUE (PHP-mode, experts only). Pages: Enter one page per line as Drupal paths. The '*' character is a wildcard. Example paths are *blog* for the blog page and *blog/** for every personal blog. *<front>* is the front page. If the PHP-mode is chosen, enter PHP code between *<?php ?>*. Note that executing incorrect PHP-code can break your Drupal site. This problem first occurred in January and below is a copy of the advice I received. Initially, this worked for me. This advice does not work and I really don't know what to do or how to troubleshoot this. Comments I think <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2449442> Posted by ludo1960 <http://drupal.org/user/216916> on *January 8, 2010 at 12:45am* The URL path settings should be front and not home. - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2449442> did not work for me <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2452634> Posted by fndtn357 <http://drupal.org/user/255723> on *January 8, 2010 at 5:25pm* I did that but I am still unable to see the Home tab highlighted in the Primary menu. Any ideas? "The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can contribute." - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2452634> In admin <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2452748> Posted by ludo1960 <http://drupal.org/user/216916> on *January 8, 2010 at 5:57pm* Check admin/build/path/list that the alias exists, if not create it - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2452748> alias exists in one part of the list<http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2453242> Posted by fndtn357 <http://drupal.org/user/255723> on *January 8, 2010 at 9:02pm* in a filtered list *nodes*, I see node/33 = node/33 and if I try to change that it says that home is already being used. Without a filter, home = node/33. Is this something I should change in the database so that forward or reverse it says home = node/33 and node/33 = home? Or should I delete the extra node/33 listing? "The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can contribute." - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2453242> Repeat <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2453252> Posted by ludo1960 <http://drupal.org/user/216916> on *January 8, 2010 at 9:05pm* Check admin/build/path/list that the alias exists, if not create it - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2453252> exists <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2453278> Posted by fndtn357 <http://drupal.org/user/255723> on *January 8, 2010 at 9:14pm* *home* is an Alias and *node/33* is in System. "The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can contribute." - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2453278> ok <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2453292> Posted by ludo1960 <http://drupal.org/user/216916> on *January 8, 2010 at 9:19pm* delete that and start again, on the site info page make front page: node Then make you menu path <front> call it anything you want ie Home - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2453292> wow! Thanks a lot. <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2453380> Posted by fndtn357 <http://drupal.org/user/255723> on *January 8, 2010 at 9:44pm* That worked. Should I leave everything as is now? And moreover how did I get it so confused? Did I not read correctly somewhere down the line? I reset this (I don't remember how now) a few times and every time I ran a major update it changed itself. Do you think this might happen again? "The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can contribute." - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2453380> If it... <http://drupal.org/node/678758#comment-2453388> Posted by ludo1960 <http://drupal.org/user/216916> on *January 8, 2010 at 9:46pm* ..works, then dont break it! :) - reply <http://drupal.org/comment/reply/678758/2453388> Any help would be greatly appreciated with this issue. -- Best Regards, James R Stone "The skill of coding is to create a context in which other people can contribute."

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