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config the thumbnail photo
by Tony Budak 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

How does the Administer config the thumbnail photo come up when a user enters a forum or story? http://www.clnews.org/drupal/ With Respect and Cheers, Tony Budak

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RE: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset ofthe siteto user/group
by Metzler, David 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Certainly willing to share with others. A couple of caveats: * They only work on Linux with mysql, so they're not up to drupal distribution standards. * They're currently dependent on the way that I have my multiple hosting sites configured: (creating symbolic links in my htdocs directory, using a common user across all my drupal sites, using root envioronment to grant dba access/passwords, etc. ) * I need a little time to bundle them. (remove my passwords, add some docs,etc). I'll put them up on a web site when I have a chance and send the link to the support list. Dave -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bill Fitzgerald Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:28 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset ofthe siteto user/group Metzler, David wrote: >Correct, just a separate database and a separate "files" directory for >uploading of images, documents etc. > >http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave >http://www2.evergreen.edu/itch >http://www2.evergreen.edu/ITTrainingRoom > >Are three sites hosted from the instance of drupal (same php, themes, >modules, etc) against different databases. I'm running on linux, >apache, mysql. Technically each of these directories are just symbolic >links to the one drupal code base. > >To make it really easy to manage, I've developed some shell scripts to >create sites by cloning mysql databases, making a few symbolic links, >directories, and building a custom settings.php file. > Hello, David, These scripts sound incredibly useful -- would you be willing to share them? Cheers, Bill -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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RE: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the siteto user/group
by Metzler, David 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

IMHO: As someone from another educational institution with experience with both OG and multi-database, I think you're best bet is multiple db's. Organic groups can be used for controlling who has access to what content, but they don't deal with the fact that your users will need different privileges on which navigational blocks are available, their positions, other content deletion, content type administration etc. Dave -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:42 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the siteto user/group So I appear to have at least two options for dividing the site up into pieces and assigning ownership... OGs and separating the databases. I decided to try the OG method first.... sorry for being dense, but a couple hours of poking and prodding have not led me to the answer yet. :-) Let's use the example that I want to set up an OG called "Graduate Programs", at the url /graduate. I've managed to do this, as user 'root'. I don't want the front page to be dynamic, just a static page, so I found a setting where I could set groups' front page to be content type 'page' instead of 'group' (even though this might cause trouble later, because other OGs I might want to be more dynamic on their front page....is there no way to do this per-OG?) Anyway, for this particular OG at least, 'page' seems to be the best behavior - it got rid of the message about there being no public posts and that you ought to subscribe to the group - no need to subscribe, in this case, the purpose of the OG is not to control who sees the content, but only who creates it. Now, I want to grant user joeuser(a)cis.uab.edu (authenticated from LDAP - hence the user format) ownership of this area. He should be able to edit the front page of the OG, add any pages he wants underneath that page but only underneath that page, and so on....I want the theme consistent with the rest of the site, but I think I can enforce that by simply having only one available. I can't figure out the right combo of roles and permissions that I need to create/grant to joeuser to accomplish this. Since I created the group as root, I wanted to change the owner to joeuser(a)cis.uab.edu. I edited the group and changed the authorship to joeuser and that seemed to do something positive, as now when I go to the groups list it shows joeuser as the manager. When joeuser logs in, he is able to edit the front page of the group, however he is not able to create subpages. I created a role called gradowner, I added joeuser to gradowner, but I don't see how I say "members of the gradowner role can own/administer/create content for the graduate programs OG". I also don't see how I can say members of gradowner can only create content within the graduate OG - if I grant the ability to create pages and stories, they get the ability to do that site-wide and publish that to the front page. I did give gradowner the permission to administer OGs (even though I only want him to be able to administer this -one- OG, so that might not have been the right move). Please help. :-) I have to step back and wonder if Drupal is really the answer for us. We want CMS because there's about 8 parties in total that are responsible for maintaining our web site, some of whom are not coders or savvy with HTML. Right now, to get material onto the site, they send it to me, I format it and wrap the appropriate PHP calls to enforce our standard template, and then I publish it. But I want out of this business. :-) They should own and be able to modify their own parts of the site and edit it through a web-based simple form. I've tried several CMSs, and the part I always get stuck at seems to be right here, carving up the site and assigning ownership to the responsible party for that area. Now, I've gotten closer with Drupal than I have with any of the other products (Joomla and Plone for the most part), but I do feel like I am swimming a bit upstream here. Any advice/pointers much appreciated! I'm also wondering if maybe I should have tried the multiple database approach first. :-) Thanks, Fran Larry Garfield wrote: > This sounds like an ideal job for the organic groups module ("og" to > its friends <g>). > > http://drupal.org/project/og > > The description is mostly about users setting up special interest > groups, but it's perfectly effective for having administrators for > only specific subsets of a site (where each subset corresponds to an og). > > On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:44, Fran Fabrizio wrote: >> We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now >> there is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the site. >> When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or >> role permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that >> section) a set of pages without giving them permission to edit all >> pages or to publish pages outside of that area? Is there a module >> that is set up to handle this sort of "sandbox" model? >> >> Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our >> faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the >> graduate program. In our current site, this translates to all pages >> in the /graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and >> can only publish new content to that folder. Another person is in >> charge of the undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is >> in charge of the continuing education program (/conted), and so on. >> >> How best to model this in Drupal? Is this something that Drupal is >> well-suited to handle? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> -- >> Fran Fabrizio >> Senior Systems Analyst >> Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama >> at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ >> 205.934.0653 > -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Drupal Homepage
by Phares Kariuki 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Does anyone know how the custom header in the drupal homepage was achieved...? The section where they announce that drupal 4.7 is out... and also next to it requesting that someone views their webcast on what is different in drupal 4.7..... Thanks... Phares K. Kariuki

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Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to user/group
by Fran Fabrizio 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now there is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the site. When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or role permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that section) a set of pages without giving them permission to edit all pages or to publish pages outside of that area? Is there a module that is set up to handle this sort of "sandbox" model? Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the graduate program. In our current site, this translates to all pages in the /graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and can only publish new content to that folder. Another person is in charge of the undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is in charge of the continuing education program (/conted), and so on. How best to model this in Drupal? Is this something that Drupal is well-suited to handle? Thanks! -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

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RE: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the siteto user/group
by Metzler, David 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Correct, just a separate database and a separate "files" directory for uploading of images, documents etc. http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave http://www2.evergreen.edu/itch http://www2.evergreen.edu/ITTrainingRoom Are three sites hosted from the instance of drupal (same php, themes, modules, etc) against different databases. I'm running on linux, apache, mysql. Technically each of these directories are just symbolic links to the one drupal code base. To make it really easy to manage, I've developed some shell scripts to create sites by cloning mysql databases, making a few symbolic links, directories, and building a custom settings.php file. -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 4:49 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the siteto user/group By separate database, do you mean separate instance of drupal? Or does it use all the same PHP/CSS/themes/etc... install but just have a diff. mysql db? Metzler, David wrote: > The way we are using this is that we actually create a separate > database for each site section. The look and feel is controlled > centrally as all sites have the same "theme" applied, but each site > has its own separate database. Then you establish different roles for each site, but all are > using the same "code base". > > You can also set a similar thing up in the same database, but you need > to do the multi-site install. I find that to be more complicated than > it's worth, but others find it quite valuable. > > David Metzler > The Evergreen State College > > -----Original Message----- > From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] > On Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:45 PM > To: support(a)drupal.org > Subject: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to > user/group > > > We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now > there is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the site. > When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or > role permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that > section) a set of pages without giving them permission to edit all > pages or to publish pages outside of that area? Is there a module that > is set up to handle this sort of "sandbox" model? > > Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our > faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the > graduate program. In our current site, this translates to all pages in > the /graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and can > only publish new content to that folder. Another person is in charge > of the undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is in charge > of the continuing education program (/conted), and so on. > > How best to model this in Drupal? Is this something that Drupal is > well-suited to handle? > > Thanks! > > > -- > Fran Fabrizio > Senior Systems Analyst > Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama > at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ > 205.934.0653 > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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RE: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to user/group
by Metzler, David 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

The way we are using this is that we actually create a separate database for each site section. The look and feel is controlled centrally as all sites have the same "theme" applied, but each site has its own separate database. Then you establish different roles for each site, but all are using the same "code base". You can also set a similar thing up in the same database, but you need to do the multi-site install. I find that to be more complicated than it's worth, but others find it quite valuable. David Metzler The Evergreen State College -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:45 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to user/group We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now there is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the site. When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or role permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that section) a set of pages without giving them permission to edit all pages or to publish pages outside of that area? Is there a module that is set up to handle this sort of "sandbox" model? Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the graduate program. In our current site, this translates to all pages in the /graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and can only publish new content to that folder. Another person is in charge of the undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is in charge of the continuing education program (/conted), and so on. How best to model this in Drupal? Is this something that Drupal is well-suited to handle? Thanks! -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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RE: [support] mailing error in general
by Metzler, David 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

The answer depends on whether your server is linux or windows. There are PHP specific settings in the php.ini file that control this behavior. The linux ones rely on a properly installed and configured sendmail, the windows ones just require you to provide the server that you're sending mail to. Here's what the php.ini settings look like. [mail function] ; For Win32 only. SMTP = localhost ; For Win32 only. sendmail_from = me(a)localhost.com ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Liktor Tibor Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:44 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] mailing error in general Hi all, I experienced funny things on my newly installed site: Drupal can't send emails, like I can't send newsletters with Simplenews, and I assume that the contact forms also don't work. This server uses PHP 4.4.1 which I wouldn't touch due to various reasons. My question is: what PHP configuration Drupal needs exactly to send mails? It is quite important for me, so any help will be more that appreciated. Best regards, Tibor -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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mailing error in general
by Liktor Tibor 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi all, I experienced funny things on my newly installed site: Drupal can't send emails, like I can't send newsletters with Simplenews, and I assume that the contact forms also don't work. This server uses PHP 4.4.1 which I wouldn't touch due to various reasons. My question is: what PHP configuration Drupal needs exactly to send mails? It is quite important for me, so any help will be more that appreciated. Best regards, Tibor

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Is a block a node?
by Anisa 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I am just curious. I don't think it is, but it's kinda funny. It's the only piece of content that isn't a node, isn't it? Anisa. -- ********************************* www.AnimeCards.Org 16,000 scans and counting! *********************************

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