[support] Newbie Qs

[Shai Gluskin]

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 at 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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