[support] editing block content question

[Jean Gazis]

Thanks, David and Laura. That's exactly it, but I didn't get why they would
be different. This makes sense. It's not _that_ big a deal to recreate a
block or two, just a bit annoying, because I can't cut and paste the
original content.

On 5/7/07, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu> wrote:
>
>  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
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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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