By saraic on

Hi,

Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the correct terminology, but this is the first time I have come across Drupal and I'm learning but I haven't got the hang of it just yet.

I'm looking to use Drupal for a document management / intranet style of project and I'd like to be able to create a block / node that enables me to display, say, the 5 most recently updated items in a list in the right sidebar.

Do you think this would be possible, and if so, how would I go about doing so? Please be gentle with me. I am usually a XHTML / CSS designer and have no familiarity with PHP at all, although I'm working hard at getting my head around it.

Thanks a lot.
Sarah

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mirnazim’s picture

mirnazim commented

you can try http://drupal.org/project/asset. Looks like it does something similar. I am not sure though, I never used it.

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

Standard Drupal doesn't provide such a block, but if you install the Views module, you can create one fairly easily. It takes about a dozen clicks, but no PHP coding is involved -- you just fill out a form.

saraic’s picture

saraic commented

Oh that's absolutely brilliant, thank you!!

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saraic commented

I followed your advice and I now have my most recently added section up on the site, and appearing down the right hand side just as I hoped it would. Going through my testing plan, I have happened across what may be one of the weirdest problems I have ever seen.

I have the most recent posts displayed as a list, with the title of the node added and the author underneath. In all browsers apart from Firefox, both the node and the author appear as links. If you click the node title, you can see the content that has just been added, if you click on the username, you can see the user's profile. In Firefox, the node title is not clickable, although the author's username is.

I have checked the source code, and I can't see anything wrong with it. I am testing with IE5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7.0, Firefox 2.0.0.11, Opera 9.0 and Safari for PC (Beta)

If anyone could shed some light on this really weird problem, I'd be really grateful.

Cheers