[support] Newbie Qs

[Shai Gluskin]

CCK has its own fieldset on the modules listing page. The main module there
is called "Content".

If you have Content Permisssions, then you definitely have CCK, you wouldn't
be able to create custom fields without it.

You set a universal home page for your site at:
admin/settings/site-information
It says, "Default Front Page" at the bottom.

Don't give everyone permission to see "All views" that essentially disables
the role based permission you create for every view that you create. Views
are often created for admin purposes and even if you set permissions on that
individual view, the "see all views" permission trumps what you did in the
view set up. So that was a bad choice.

Good luck,

Shai

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:01 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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