Hi, I think I've read everything I can find about activeedit here on the Drupal site but I still can't seem to get it to fully work. I have installed it and while I can see the edit buttons for the site's title and footer, I don't see any edit buttons for content items. I've created a node of type Page and viewed it but see no edit buttons for the title and body fields. I'm using a stock Drupal 5 install with a fresh db, only Activeedit and its required modules are enabled.

From what I can understand from the node.inc file it seems as if this functionality should work as expected without further configuration.

I firmly believe this is the future for CMS editing in the front end. Having 'Edit In Place' functionality is my goal for the Drupal sites I make for the un-computer savvy clients I often have. They don't understand why they can't just edit text right there on the page. This module brings them closer to this expectation and with the minimal page refreshes it brings I think more people will 'get' the concept of editing their content.

Any help with implementing this for stock content types would be greatly appreciated.

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Have you confirmed that permissions are right? Users will be able to edit content only if they have edit access for that node.

Activeedit is one of the many modules I've sketched in mainly as proof of concept. I haven't used it lately. Possibly a Drupal 5.3 change is affecting the behaviour?

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Hi Nedjo, thanks for getting back to me. I'm trying this as the admin user so I'm guessing permissions isn't a problem. I'll set up a test user and set the permissions to see if its any different. I'd love this module to be expanded, I think it could be a very powerful and intuitive way of editing content.

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To be doubly sure I just downloaded a new Drupal 5.3 install along with the jstools and formfilter modules. As admin, after installing them I created a new node of the type Page. I then went to view the newly created node but was unable to edit the content with activeedit. I also created a new authenticated user and set the permissions to be able to edit via ajax as well as creating and editing page and story content. I then logged in as this user and was unable to edit via ajax (although usual editing and page creation was fine).