[support] Newbie Qs

[Timothy Washington]

Ok, CCK is installed as it turns out. And I got the homepage back up, thanks so much guys for the help. I had to reset my content name (and alias) to a proper name. Now I'm going to look into installing fckeditor for creating content like what you see in the attachment. More soon. 

Thanks a lot to both of you
Tim





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From: Steve Power <steev at initsix.co.uk>
To: support at drupal.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:22:32 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Newbie Qs

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>
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>>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. 
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>Now the page isn't even showing up (see http://fto.digitalrhino.biz/whatwedo), even though all pages are published. This is confusing :|  
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>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 :) 
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>3) With Drupal's content editor is there a way to do like here: http://digitalrhino.projectpath.com/projects/2836732/thumbnails/27705922
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>>	* make an image to span 2 fields
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> You probably want fckeditor or www.drupal.org/project/wysiwyg
>I'll check out the fckeditor. 
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>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. 
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>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. 
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>Thanks a lot
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