Searching the Forums Link is broken
dtibbot - June 19, 2008 - 17:24
The header for the forums says "Try searching the forums using the advanced search option first or a specific project's bug reports. Remember all support ...." but the link is broken. Not and auspicious start to the Drupal experience. I can't seem to find any documentation on how to user the UPLOAD module, or how to ATTACH the file once uploaded. Every thing seems to tiptoe around the issue of how to use it once it is loaded. I would like to have some book pages contain PDF's, but can't figure out how to do it, or if it is even possible.
Search
I'm fairly new here, but I suspect that the search function is throttled due to high volume of traffic. If you come here at 'off' hours, you can search.
That attitude here is that there is a lot of information available in the documentation. No one has time to teach people the basics because there are 100 new people to each expert. Your choices are to hire someone or to figure it out on your own. I have even been turned down as a paying client, so I have dug in.
Search
I seem to be having trouble finding those "off" hours.
Digging in is what I am trying to do. Those classed as experts tend to "assume" you know the little things that never occur to them that anyone wouldn't know. When the documentation seems to go in circles all around the thing I am trying to fathom I then to find my self screaming at my computer screen. Hence this post, which BTW seems to be helping.
Thanks.
First, regarding search, yes
First, regarding search, yes it seems that search gets throttled off during periods of high load. You can always search drupal.org by using "site:drupal.org" in a google search box along with your keywords. If you need to search for modules, i find http://drupalmodules.com to be very useful.
Second, regarding the upload module: Documentation --> Getting Started --> Core Modules --> Upload: collaborate with files (the url of this page is http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/upload which is a reasonable first guess and applicable to other core modules as well).
To use it on a page, click the "File Attachments" link to open the fieldset, click the browse button to locate the file you wish to upload, and click the "Attach" button to upload & attach the file to the page. To view the attachment on the page, simply click on the link.
If you want book pages to allow for attachments, simply follow the instructions on the handbook page linked above to enable attachments for the content type "book".
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Search is your best friend." -- Worldfallz
Try drupalsearch.org for Search
You may try http://drupalsearch.org (based on Google CSE), it is an alternative way fo searching drupal.org.
Read more & leave feedback at http://drupal.org/node/272208
- Victor