Tim, Steve, and all,

To add a bit of nuance to Steve's answer. It's possible he's right on with the cck field permissions issue. Note though, that if the sub-module in cck called "Content Permissions" (see in the module listing page in the cck ssction at admin/build/modules/list) is turned off (unchecked) then this will not be the issue. If this is indeed the problem, that you have "Content Permissions" turned on, rather then set all those permissions, I would turn the module off, if you don't need it. It really complexifies the the permissions page, and you can always add it back later if you don't need it. That module used to be called "field permissions" which I think is a better name. With that module turned off you can still restrict access on a node by node basis (with content_access or another module) or build in with Drupal you have role-based access. The "Content Permissions" module is required when you want to restrict certain fields within a content type to specific user roles. It's a great feature; I'm just saying if you don't need it, don't use it (that's true for a lot of things in Drupal).

Best,

Shai

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Steve Power <steev@initsix.co.uk> wrote:

1) I tried adding a text field and text area to one of our Content types - an "Article". But I am not seeing any new content / text after I add some to one of the articles. What do I have to do to see those text changes in my page? Is there some kind of caching issue here?
Check out permissions in user settings, you have to allow users to see cck fields.



2) I've made some changes to a template php file (and associated CSS). But those changes aren't being reflected in the pages served. Is there a caching issue here? Or does some file(s) need to be re-indexed?
go to performance in the site configuration menu and clear the cache.  Also install the theme developer module to ensure your tpls are gtting picked up OK



3) With Drupal's content editor is there a way to do like here: http://digitalrhino.projectpath.com/projects/2836732/thumbnails/27705922
  • make an image to span 2 fields
  • have text split into 2 columns
 You probably want fckeditor or www.drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

4) How do you manage the homepage that Drupal uses? I had a user delete the homepage and now I need to recreate it. But this doesn't seem to be a straightforward process.
/node should be a normal 'river of content' view. I would worry more about users being able to change the homepage atm than recreating it.



Thanks for any help
Tim


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