[support] Newbie Qs

[Steve Power]

hello again mate

site configuraion>site information should have url for frontpage you can set
it there.   /node is the default front page (it just displays everything in
date order, hence 'river of content') - http://fto.digitalrhino.biz/node  is
what i mean

your front page is a bit fubar, and im not sure how to help you with the CCK
stuff!  dont know how you managed to do all this without CCK (its been so
long since i used anything but CCK !  )

http://fto.digitalrhino.biz/gallery/Gallery-1

have you enabled the option 'access content'?

also, in the content types, it may be disabled or hidden in the display
options (guess/unlikely)


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Timothy Washington <
timothyjwashington at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. See inlined comments...
>
>
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> *From:* Steve Power <steev at initsix.co.uk>
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:18:13 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [support] Newbie Qs
>
>
>> 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.
> There's no module that I can see called Content Construction Kit (CCK). But
> I did try enabling anonymous and authenticated user access to view all
> fields in the "content_permissions module" module. As well, all users can
> view all "views" modules.
>
> Now the page isn't even showing up (see
> http://fto.digitalrhino.biz/whatwedo), even though all pages are
> published. This is confusing :|
>
>
> 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
> Ok, got this one. Thanks :)
>
>
> 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
> I'll check out the fckeditor.
>
>
>  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.
> I don't quite follow this. How can a user (anonymous or authenticated)
> control what homepage appears? Or why would I want that to happen? In this
> case, I just want one homepage to appear all the time, and I can't see where
> to set that. This is obviously my lack of understanding of how Drupal
> handles this.
>
>
> Thanks a lot
> Tim
>
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