Drupal Use
How to Unpublish Content
Gus helped a client who wanted a quotation to no longer appear in the rotation for a random quotation block.
Dear client,
Yes, you can delete the quote. Though you probably would simply want to unpublish the quote instead of deleting it. This way you can use the quote in the future without having to re-enter it. If you go here:
DrupalConDC Selling Drupal Services
The way that you deliver is as/more important than what you deliver.
We sell comfort. We make our customers feel good.
How many send a note after the first meeting? How many handwritten?
Attention to detail that you notice when you're selling your business.
We tell them:
- it's easy to install.
Remember to pay attention to timestamps for anything you send to RSS
Timestamps matter for content you push to RSS, especially feeds that are picked up by an aggregator.
Giving more people the power to approve subscriptions or memberships to a group
Client request, regarding a an e-mail for subscription requests to 'Example Mentors' from 'newusername' which she received through the site:
> To instantly approve this request, visit
> http://www.example.com/og/approve/407/581.
> You may deny this request or manage subscribers at
> http://www.example.com/og/users/407
Can Drupal scale to 100 users?
I was talking about SCF and Drupal yesterday with someone I'm working with on another project, and he said he finds Drupal difficult to scale. He thinks that it's not capable of handling more than 100 users. If that's true, that would be a major concern for [our project]. What has been your experience regarding scaling issues with Drupal?
Get to the login screen of a Drupal site: /user
To go to the log-in form on most any Drupal site, simply add /user to the base URL.
So for the site example.com, visit example.com/user and if it is Drupal you should be presented with the sign-in form, plus tabs to send a replacement password by e-mail and possibly to register to create a new account.
Using Ubiquity to post notes to Drupal
Good instructions for a particular method here:
http://www.schoonzie.com/using-the-ubiquity-firefox-extension-to-create-...
Followed but not currently using because of after installing the command by phoque command Ubiquity threw (apparently harmless) errors, and the process for modifying blog URLs was not clear (as in, even just listing the ones you've entered).
Print name and filename of the top-most file attached to a Drupal post
This is very much a hack, as it puts far too much database loading and PHP logic not even in the theme layer, but worse, embedded in the content itself. A better version might use the theme layer to make the $filename and other such variables available to certain content types with files attached, for instance.
How to put CCK fields into groups in Drupal 6
It's too simple for us old-school developers. (It took three of us a half hour to figure out at DrupalCampNYC.)
After creating both groups and some regular fields, you – get ready – drag and drop the regular field inside the group (or fieldset).
