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Continuing with creating menus and uploading
by Bruce Whealton 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi all, I was talking earlier about just some real basic ideas in setting up a site. Following up on some ideas, I've added some questions which hopefully can be broken down by paragraph as to what I'm asking. Basically I'm trying to make it easy to get someone quickly to the right place in the site, saving them from too many steps and confusing decisions to make. 1) I don't mind letting even anonymous visitors submit content as long as they won't 1get published without the editors (where editors, publishers etc or roles I setup) deciding on what we will publish. I can prohibit anyone without the proper priviledges from being able to submit any content and have it show up published on the site, be it, blog, story, page, etc. Correct? 2) Can I create a menu option that takes on directly to a form page? For example, instead of having a person go to create content then selecting from among, story, page, blog, just take them to the form with content type selected already. I don't want to confuse a member who might want to contribute a story or other content of a textual nature, where they might wonder, do I contribute a story, or a page or what? 2 cont.) What I need is paths that go directly to the relevent page based on items selected from a menu or submenu. So, as long as the full path can be determined then one doesn't need to go like this content>>add content>>story and then see the form. I'd want a menu item perhaps, like Send us a story and take them to the page where they start typing into the form? 3) Also, I have a customer needing to send some files, photos, and some descriptive text. So, I could say go to my web site (which would be one of my drupal installations), then select, send us information, which would maybe open up a form for entering a story, and include an upload or attach link. So, send us information would take them right there to that form from my custom menu that might appear anywhere. It would just need the full path, right? to the form page with the content type selected by the actions of the link I setup. Can that be done? 3 cont) Can I allow one single upload to include more than one file? Such as uploading some 5 (or any number up to a certain limit) files which might be image files, text, zip files, etc? Thanks all, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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RE: [support] Basic help getting started
by Steven Peck 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

menu_otf or menu on the fly module. The functionality is built into Drupal 4.7. ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org on behalf of Jason Flatt Sent: Thu 1/12/2006 7:22 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Basic help getting started On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:30, Bruce Whealton wrote: > > Here's another question relating to the prior posts I had on creating > content and adding it to a menu. I thought that there was a way to have a > story, page, book page, etc when you publish it select where it should > appear on the menu, i.e. with parent Navigation or parent mycustom > menu/mysubmenu etc. Can that be done and how? It is not automatic, but you can create menu and submenu items like you are asking about. First you have to make sure the Menu module is enabled in admin/modules. Next go to admin/menu and go to town. You can add menu items to the main Navigation menu, or add a separate menu. If you add a new menu, you'll need to go to admin/block to show it. > Then the question that follows is what I think is already answered for me > sufficiently. But, I was planning to create a site with Drupal for an > Architectural firm. The idea was to give them a way to maintain the site, > update it, etc. without me when I finish. I'm not assuming the customer > can do any programming or web design. That can and has been done for > companies/customers, with Drupal, correct? Only when certain > administrative tasks are required would they need to call me again. That's > reasonable to do with Drupal, correct? Thanks, Yes, that is correct. -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadae.net/ jason(a)oadae.net -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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RE: [support] Basic help getting started
by Metzler, David 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I've been dialoging with someone else outside of this list. I've figured out two ways to do this automatically that I thought I'd share: Enable the "book Navigation Block" to generate your navigation based on book navigation menus. Non-book node types can be assigned to the book navigation menus using the "Outline tab" when you publish the content. Or you can just build the navigation by making most of your pages book pages. Use the taxonomy_menu module to have menus generated based on "categories" you assign to content as you publish the content. Each menu is then a list of nodes/teasers based on categories. The content can show up in mutiple places this way. I'll be really interested to explore menus on the fly in Drupal 4.7. By the by anyone heard of an official release date? I've been watching the drupal site with baited breath. :) Dave -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Jason Flatt Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:23 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Basic help getting started On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:30, Bruce Whealton wrote: > > Here's another question relating to the prior posts I had on > creating content and adding it to a menu. I thought that there was a > way to have a story, page, book page, etc when you publish it select > where it should appear on the menu, i.e. with parent Navigation or > parent mycustom menu/mysubmenu etc. Can that be done and how? It is not automatic, but you can create menu and submenu items like you are asking about. First you have to make sure the Menu module is enabled in admin/modules. Next go to admin/menu and go to town. You can add menu items to the main Navigation menu, or add a separate menu. If you add a new menu, you'll need to go to admin/block to show it. > Then the question that follows is what I think is already answered > for me sufficiently. But, I was planning to create a site with Drupal > for an Architectural firm. The idea was to give them a way to > maintain the site, update it, etc. without me when I finish. I'm not > assuming the customer can do any programming or web design. That can > and has been done for companies/customers, with Drupal, correct? Only > when certain administrative tasks are required would they need to call > me again. That's reasonable to do with Drupal, correct? Thanks, Yes, that is correct. -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadae.net/ jason(a)oadae.net -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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notify and taxonomy access
by VJ 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Has anyone got notify working correctly with taxonomy access? i.e it only sends an update when content you have access to is notified? -v

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RE: [support] Basic help getting started
by Metzler, David 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Wow, Really? That should be it. Done it zillions of times. Just to confirm: It doen't show up in the "administer/themes" list of themes, right? The one obvious thing to check is permissions: Does the anonymous web user that you're running apache on have permissions on the newly installed engines and theme? If their not owned by the www user, make sure the chmod o+rx. ________________________________ From: Bruce Whealton [mailto:brucewhealton@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:50 PM To: Metzler, David; support(a)drupal.org Subject: RE: [support] Basic help getting started Hi, Thanks for the help/support. I did both of these things. The PHPTemplates is installed in the directory as described. Then I put box_grey in the directory in the folder themes/box_grey But other than the default themes that came with the Drupal installation, I have no other theme options showing up. Thanks, Bruce "Metzler, David" <MetzlerD(a)evergreen.edu> wrote: There are some theme installatioin instructions at: http://drupal.org/node/43767 Basically, you need to install "Theme Engines" to support specific themes. PHPTemplate is a theme engine used by many themes such as Box_Grey. So if you want to use some of the PHPTemplate themes (like box_grey) then you need to first download and install the PHPTemplate theme engine. Then you download and install a particular theme (like box_grey). To summarize: 1. Download and untar/zip the PHPTemplate them and put it in the themes/engines folder. 2. Download the box_grey theme (which happens to use the PHPTemplate theme engine). Untar/zip the theme and place it in the drupal themes folder. 3. Navigate to Administer themes, and you should see the new box_grey theme as an option. THe second question is a bit more complex, and I'd recommend you looking through the modules list to make sure you find a module that's closest to doing email the way you want to do it prior to trying to encorperate it into a menu. Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:02 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Basic help getting started Hi all, While I did get Drupal installed, I am having some startup problems with my first Drupal sites. I have more than one, as it appears that Drupal is a web application that will be useful for a few different sites. One of the first issues deals with themes. It seems that themes would be much easier to use and setup then things have been for me. Unfortunately, the themes I check out at: http://drupal.org/project/themes/ when downloaded, do not have a readme or installation instructions file that will tell one what to do. Relatedly, the PHPTemplate theme tool said that all one does it upload the expanded zip (actually it was a tar/gz file) and upload it to the themes/engine folder. Am I supposed to look for something after this is installed? I had used Fantastico to install Drupal 4.6.4 but thought that PHPTemplate was installed; I guess I was wrong. At the risk of sounding naive, what does one do to use PHPTemplate? It said that only one file is needed in the particular theme folder such as theme/mytheme I'm missing something, as I'm still not seeing any additional themes from the default installation. So, to get started with Themes, and PHPTemplate, I will need to do what? or start where? The second question deals with menus and Contact forms. Suppose I want to add a menu item which will present a form for submitting content to two different email addresses. I know that for a menu item, I first create the new menu and then add that menu as a block. However, the path to a contact form to contact some default emails, like editors, is not presenting itself clearly for me. I'm not finding it, can someone help, please, Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*ht tp://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38087/*http://pg.photos .yahoo.com/ph//page?.file=calendar_splash.html&.dir=> . Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/holidayprints/*http://pa.yahoo. com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38089/*http://pg .photos.yahoo.com/ph//print_splash> to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

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Re: [support] making image module work with multisite
by Pat Collins 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:48:41 -0800, Ryan Grace <ryan(a)realenergy.net> wrote : > Pat Collins wrote: > > >On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:23:36 -0800, Ryan Grace <ryan(a)realenergy.net> wrote : > > > > > > > >>okay. > >> this is strange that images wont show up on other subsites in > >>multisite mode. > >> there is nothing in the node table for each image pointing to which > >>subsite it was added under. > >> yet, when you try to view an image node, the image only shows on the > >>subsite it was added under.. > >> the other sites just get the node name and comments without an image... > >> see thefractal.org/node > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >Sorry, I'm missing what your are seeing. Can you provide some links? > > > see > http://drupal.org/node/43566 > > or > see > http://thefractal.org/en/node/401 > versus > http://puntamona.org/en/node/401 > > big thanks for this! > ryan. > Since the node # is the same I'm assuming your are sharing tables between the sites. Do you have a common {files} table? Pat

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Re: [support] making image module work with multisite
by Pat Collins 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:23:36 -0800, Ryan Grace <ryan(a)realenergy.net> wrote : > okay. > this is strange that images wont show up on other subsites in > multisite mode. > there is nothing in the node table for each image pointing to which > subsite it was added under. > yet, when you try to view an image node, the image only shows on the > subsite it was added under.. > the other sites just get the node name and comments without an image... > see thefractal.org/node > Sorry, I'm missing what your are seeing. Can you provide some links? BTW, That is a really cute kid you got there, congratulations! Pat

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making image module work with multisite
by Ryan Grace 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

okay. this is strange that images wont show up on other subsites in multisite mode. there is nothing in the node table for each image pointing to which subsite it was added under. yet, when you try to view an image node, the image only shows on the subsite it was added under.. the other sites just get the node name and comments without an image... see thefractal.org/node any ideas? thanks ryan grace.

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RE: [support] Basic help getting started
by Metzler, David 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

PHPTemplate to be uploaded here theme/engine/PHPTemplate This is the correct way.... and yes that, plus the permissions issue are most likely the culprits. Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:52 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Cc: MeltzlerD(a)evergreen.edu Subject: RE: [support] Basic help getting started I know this shouldn't be happening. Here are some thoughts. One is that the PHPTemplate was installed wrong. I added another theme also that uses PHPTemplate and that might be setup wrong. It was civicspace and I wasn''t sure if it should go in the themes/engine/civicspace folder or in the themes/civicspace So, with it appearing in two different places at once could that cause a problem? Again, the themes that use PHPTemplate are the ones not showing up in the administer/themes page. Is PHPTemplate to be uploaded here theme/engine/PHPTemplate or should the content of PHPTemplate be put into theme/engine? Why would it be that when I login as admin, the new theme that I set as default is not being used? The anonymous user sees a theme that I would like to have logged in users seeing also. I set it as default but it seems that it isn't being used when I log in. Why would this be? Thanks in advance, Bruce "Metzler, David" <MetzlerD(a)evergreen.edu> wrote: Wow, Really? That should be it. Done it zillions of times. Just to confirm: It doen't show up in the "administer/themes" list of themes, right? The one obvious thing to check is permissions: Does the anonymous web user that you're running apache on have permissions on the newly installed engines and theme? If their not owned by the www user, make sure the chmod o+rx. ________________________________ From: Bruce Whealton [mailto:brucewhealton@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:50 PM To: Metzler, David; support(a)drupal.org Subject: RE: [support] Basic help getting started Hi, Thanks for the help/support. I did both of these things. The PHPTemplates is installed in the directory as described. Then I put box_grey in the directory in the folder themes/box_grey But other than the default themes that came with the Drupal installation, I have no other theme options showing up. Thanks, Bruce "Metzler, David" <MetzlerD(a)evergreen.edu> wrote: There are some theme installatioin instructions at: http://drupal.org/node/43767 Basically, you need to install "Theme Engines" to support specific themes. PHPTemplate is a theme engine used by many themes such as Box_Grey. So if you want to use some of the PHPTemplate themes (like box_grey) then you need to first download and install the PHPTemplate theme engine. Then you download and install a particular theme (like box_grey). To summarize: 1. Download and untar/zip the PHPTemplate them and put it in the themes/engines folder. 2. Download the box_grey theme (which happens to use the PHPTemplate theme engine). Untar/zip the theme and place it in the drupal themes folder. 3. Navigate to Administer themes, and you should see the new box_grey theme as an option. THe second question is a bit more complex, and I'd recommend you looking through the modules list to make sure you find a module that's closest to doing email the way you want to do it prior to trying to encorperate it into a menu. < /DIV> Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:02 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Basic help getting started Hi all, While I did get Drupal installed, I am having s ome startup problems with my first Drupal sites. I have more than one, as it appears that Drupal is a web application that will be useful for a few different sites. One of the first issues deals with themes. It seems that themes would be much easier to use and setup then things have been for me. Unfortunately, the themes I check out at: http://drupal.org/project/themes/ when downloaded, do not have a readme or installation instructions file that will tell one what to do. Relatedly, the PHPTemplate theme tool said that all one does it upload the expanded zip (actually it was a tar/gz file) and upload it to the themes/engine folder. Am I supposed to look for something after this is installed? I had used Fantastico to install Drupal 4.6.4 but thought that PHPTemplate was installed; I guess I was wrong. At the risk of so unding naive, what does one do to use PHPTemplate? It said that only one file is needed in the particular theme folder such as theme/mytheme I'm missing something, as I'm still not seeing any additional themes from the default installation. So, to get started with Themes, and PHPTemplate, I will need to do what? or start where? The second question deals with menus and Contact forms. Suppose I want to add a menu item which will present a form for submitting content to two different email addresses. I know that for a menu item, I first create the new menu and then add that menu as a block. However, the path to a contact form to contact some default emails, like editors, is not presenting itself clearly for me. I'm not finding it, can someone help, please, Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*ht tp://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38087/*http://pg.photos .yahoo.com/ph//page?.file=calendar_splash.html&.dir=> . Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/holidayprints/*http://pa.yahoo. com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38089/*http://pg .photos.yahoo.com/ph//print_splash> to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*ht tp://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38087/*http://pg.photos .yahoo.com/ph//page?.file=calendar_splash.html&.dir=> . Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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RE: [support] Basic help getting started
by Metzler, David 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

There are some theme installatioin instructions at: http://drupal.org/node/43767 Basically, you need to install "Theme Engines" to support specific themes. PHPTemplate is a theme engine used by many themes such as Box_Grey. So if you want to use some of the PHPTemplate themes (like box_grey) then you need to first download and install the PHPTemplate theme engine. Then you download and install a particular theme (like box_grey). To summarize: 1. Download and untar/zip the PHPTemplate them and put it in the themes/engines folder. 2. Download the box_grey theme (which happens to use the PHPTemplate theme engine). Untar/zip the theme and place it in the drupal themes folder. 3. Navigate to Administer themes, and you should see the new box_grey theme as an option. THe second question is a bit more complex, and I'd recommend you looking through the modules list to make sure you find a module that's closest to doing email the way you want to do it prior to trying to encorperate it into a menu. Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:02 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Basic help getting started Hi all, While I did get Drupal installed, I am having some startup problems with my first Drupal sites. I have more than one, as it appears that Drupal is a web application that will be useful for a few different sites. One of the first issues deals with themes. It seems that themes would be much easier to use and setup then things have been for me. Unfortunately, the themes I check out at: http://drupal.org/project/themes/ when downloaded, do not have a readme or installation instructions file that will tell one what to do. Relatedly, the PHPTemplate theme tool said that all one does it upload the expanded zip (actually it was a tar/gz file) and upload it to the themes/engine folder. Am I supposed to look for something after this is installed? I had used Fantastico to install Drupal 4.6.4 but thought that PHPTemplate was installed; I guess I was wrong. At the risk of sounding naive, what does one do to use PHPTemplate? It said that only one file is needed in the particular theme folder such as theme/mytheme I'm missing something, as I'm still not seeing any additional themes from the default installation. So, to get started with Themes, and PHPTemplate, I will need to do what? or start where? The second question deals with menus and Contact forms. Suppose I want to add a menu item which will present a form for submitting content to two different email addresses. I know that for a menu item, I first create the new menu and then add that menu as a block. However, the path to a contact form to contact some default emails, like editors, is not presenting itself clearly for me. I'm not finding it, can someone help, please, Thanks, Bruce +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer admin(a)TriangleWebServcies.com Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://StreetExposure.blogspot.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/*http://pa.yahoo.com/*ht tp://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/photos/evt=38087/*http://pg.photos .yahoo.com/ph//page?.file=calendar_splash.html&.dir=> . Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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