[support] Newbie Qs

[Shai Gluskin]

Tim,

Welcome to Drupal... it's awesome... hand in there with the learning curve.

1. Check here: admin/content/node-type/page/display (change "page" to be the
content-type you are dealing with. Or just go to: admin/content/types then
click "manage fields" and then "display fields." However, I believe the
default after adding fields is for them to display. So your story is
curious. It's always a good idea to clear cache! However, if you are logged
in while viewing the page I doubt it is a caching issue. (FYI its real easy
to clear cache when you have the following two modules installed: devel
admin_menu) Write back with more details if this persists. You can also
clear cache at the bottom of: admin/settings/performance

2. Which .tpl file did you change and which theme are you using? Note that
it can be confusing at the beginning when to change page.tpl.php or
node.tpl.php. You do need to clear the theme registry after changing a .tpl
page. To clear the theme registry, go to the theme settings page for the
theme you are using. Here is the theme settings page for Garland:

admin/build/themes/settings/garland

Then click save at the bottom (even if you didn't change anything) and your
theme registry will be cleared.

3. Your URL that you gave for the example required a log-in, do you have a
screen shot? I don't really know what you mean by make an image span two
fields. "Have text split into two columns. With the views module it's very
simple to output fields in tabular format. If you mean, "Can I present
content in one field in tabular format?" The answer is yes. As long as that
field is not "plain" text (set when you set up the field) and the input
format that you choose when doing data entry allows the html tags you need
(e.g. <table>), then you can do anything you want. If you use the "full
html" input format that will surely work, though be careful with that not to
give privilege to use full html to too many people. You can add allowable
tags to the filtered html input format.

4. The home page in Drupal is set at the site information screen:
admin/settings/site-information
You can set it to any URL. It could be an individual node, a view a panel
page (if you have Panels installed), whatever. It's possible the content was
not deleted. I always recommend newbies to visit the content listing page
often, cause that usually answers the question, "Where did my stuff go?"
dmin/content/node/overview


Good luck,

Shai
Content2zero Web Development <http://content2zero.com/portfolio>


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Timothy Washington <
timothyjwashington at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Hey there, I just have a few beginner questions.
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> 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
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks for any help
> Tim
>
>
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