[support] editing block content question

[Metzler, David]

Blocks that are generated by module code cannot be edited.  It doesn't
really make sense to be able to, remembering that the block content is
generated by the PHP code in the module.  This has always been true. The
blocks you add are different, because they're static.  You type in the
values, and the data is not generated by module code, but looked up in
the database. That's the best explanation as to "why". 
 
I'm not sure why your 4.7 blocks became uneditable in 5.0.  The objvious
work-around is to disable those and create new ones if you need to edit
them. 

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Jean Gazis
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 8:16 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] editing block content question


By blocks, I mean the things that are called "blocks" on the admin
menus, that usually go in the side columns. If I go "add block" and make
a new one, such as random quote or related links, then I am able to go
back later and edit it, but if I pick it off the list, I can't, and if I
made a block in 4.7, it became uneditable in 5, i.e., when I go to
configure the block, I see no block content, just the placement and
visibility options. I am user 1 and as far as I know have given myself
all the permissions. Either way, why would blocks I create behave
differently than the ones that are already available, such as the
standard menu blocks? 


On 5/4/07, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: 

	Quoting Jean Gazis <jgazis at gmail.com>:
	
	> Why is it that the pre-existing blocks can't be edited, but
blocks that I
	> create can? I have blocks I created in Drupal 4.7 that I could
edit, but
	> when the site was moved to Drupal 5, the same blocks became
uneditable. Is
	> there a way to modify their contents or do I have to just
delete and
	> recreate the whole block?
	>
	
	What do you mean by block?  Does your database user have the
correct
	permissions to be able to update the data?  Does the access
control for
	the user doing the editing have permissions to edit the
``block''? 
	
	Earnie
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