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marquee element module: scrolltext or other
by Luke 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hello I am looking for a way to place a marquee element in a block, and have some mechanism of controlling its contents through a form. I had a non-drupal site where I had written a crude control mechanism in PHP, and I can do that again here, but I thought I would try to find a module first, that would maybe work with some modifications. I found "ScrollText" (http://drupal.org/project/scrolltext) but its information is fleeting, and it doesn't quite seem that it will do what I want (it takes its content from "titles of nodes", which seems strange). Has anyone used this module, altered this module; or does anyone know of another module which handles a marquee element? Thanks Luke

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Custom RSS feed using Views
by Shyamala Rajaram 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

We need to have a cusotm RSS feed. i.e the fields in the RSS XML must be what we want, like title, teaser, date , author etc. The current RSS that gets generated with the Views RSS plugin is Title, link, extra (date..). How do we add more fields to our RSS? Shyamala

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User Uploads
by Daniel Carrera 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello, In Drupal 5.9 what happens if two users upload files with the same name? I'm concerned that the second upload might overwrite the first. In my site there is a pretty good chance of this sort of thing happening. In my ideal world the file upload module would use sub-directories for each user, but it doesn't. If anyone can recommend a good module for file uploads, please let me know. Thanks. Daniel.

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Upgrading Modules
by Daniel Carrera 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello, Thanks to all who helped me move my Drupal 4.7 site to 5.9. Now that the base site is upgraded (this is a test site btw) I need to think about modules: 1) I had taxonomy_access in the old site. How do I upgrade a module? I have the new taxonomy_access (the one for 5.9) uploaded but I haven't activated it in case that is the wrong thing to do. 2) How do I get rid of old modules that I don't want to use anymore? Like the eCommerce module. Can I just drop all ec_* tables? Ditto for eJournal and OrganicGroups. These are all modules which I *thought* would help me but didn't and I don't want to keep them. Lastly, do you think it's alright if I stay with Drupal 5.9 until next year? The taxonomy_access module is not stable for Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if I should upgrade or not. Thanks.

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Drupal permissions
by Daniel Carrera 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello, I tried to make a copy of my Drupal site for testing, but I can't get the test site to work. This is what I've done: 1) I made a copy of the database (let's call it test_db). 2) I made a copy of the Drupal directory and changed settings.php to point to test_db. I can navigate to the new Drupal site, but all the nodes give me "access denied". I can login, I can create new pages, and the new pages I create work fine (no "access denied") but the old pages just won't work. I tried following the instructions here: http://www.tech4him.com/content/drupal-access-denied-permission-are-correct No luck. If I change settings.php in the test site to point to the old database, the site works fine. So the problem seems to be something in the new database, but I can't imagine what. Does anyone have any ideas? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Daniel.

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Security issue with comment form
by Shyamala Rajaram 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

We are facing currently comment spamming from a particular IP. As a security step we enabled Captcha and banned the IP. But the problem still persits, and the user is accessing the comment from a new IP every time. Though the comments do not get generated, it's still clogging the database. We need help to resolve this security issue. Shyamala

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User permissions - limiting node or page access
by Luke 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello I would like to have user X be able to edit content of a particular node, or page, or other entity. There is talk of this here: http://drupal.org/node/5229 however, as noted in the last comment there (June, 2008), this issue has received no apparent action since 2004. Now, it could be that this has been handled in some other way, but this level of permission granularity does not seem available in 5.7. This is not a one-off: I have several "department heads", who need to be able to control their own pages, and only their own page(s). Are there any current solutions for this for either 5.X or 6.X? Thanks Luke

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Views shows-up same node multiple times w.r.t comments
by geniekids 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Views shows-up same node multiple times - as many times as the number of comments posted I have a view to show few fields of a cck. I want to show (all) the comments posted to each node. However when i run the view - the same node shows up (is repeated) as many times as the number of comments posted! 2. Is it possible to just have a list of all the comments under one entry of the node in the view. 3. Or in the view have a link which when clicked will show all the comments (and only the comments) for that node (maybe in a lightbox kind of format?) thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Views-shows-up-same-node-multiple-times-w.r.t-comment… Sent from the Drupal - Support mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Staging
by Christopher M. Jones 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

I'm looking for a decent approach to staging a drupal site. The production site will be a collaborative authoring project, with forums, blogs, and lots of media. The client will have access to this site, and will be maintaining some of the content. Other content will be maintained by us. The development company that hosts this project prefers to make all of their changes, both to content and templates, in a testing environment. Once their client has approved the changes, they like to 'push' them to production. However, while these changes are taking place, the client may be administering forums and writing blog posts in the -production- version. To further complicate things, my company wants a three-stage cycle. They want a dev site, where they make changes for in-house review, which they then push to testing for client review before everything is pushed to production. I'm unsure how to approach this. The site in question has always been static html created in Dreamweaver. At some point they started adding other things, so now there are two wordpress blogs, and two phpbb forums. The forums and blogs presently are excepted from the development cycle. They simply appear to be part of the site, because their templates have been designed so. But that means that we've got to propagate template changes across five templates. Things are breaking constantly, and this is why I piped up to them about drupal. I've seen a lot of discussion about this topic, but I really need some hard answers. What should I do? I've seen the Staging module for 6.x. Is it safe to use? If so, then we could use that for the database. Templates could be pushed with rsync or svn... whatever. But would this work two ways? Could we sync the dev / testing sites to the production site, then sync the other way? Would we need to? Also, I envision using a multisite environment so that all sites share the same modules, media, etc, but use different templates. I desperately need the detailed advice of someone with experience, here.

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one admin page not working for subdomains
by Andrew Strader 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

I have the Captcha module installed, and I can configured it on the main domain of my site (http://www.{mysite}.com/admin/user/captcha) but when I log into the corresponding page on one of the subdomains (e.g. http://foo.{mysite}.com/admin/user/captcha) it doesn't display any options. What is going on?? How do I tell behind the scenes (in files or database) what the deal is? (Thanks!) -- --Andrew

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