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By tiendoan on
This is driving me crazy ! According to the instruction:
The administration pages for this module are located at:
Administration -> Content Management -> Content Types
Click on "add content type" to make a new one. On this page you can set
the title of your new content type and some related information.
Once you save your new type, you can add new custom fields to it using
the links on the overview page. Currently you can add text fields, text
areas, and dropdown menus. The Title and Description fields are always
shown.
part is one is easy enough but part 2 regarding the overview page, there is no place where I can add anything (assuming the overview page being the page under Home » administer » content). All I get the "edit content type", which upon clicking only allow me to set the name and the description !!!
Is this a permission issue somewhere? Under administer >> access control, I gave myself all the rights there is already. Is there something I miss ???
thank you in advance
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you should see..
If you click on
Administer -> Content -> Content Types
you should see a list of your flexinodes displayed in a table and one column should have a long list of ADD (field type) links.
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
you should see a list of
you should see a list of your flexinodes displayed in a table and one column should have a long list of ADD (field type) links.
Thanks Dub for answering so quickly. The list u mentioned should be at Home » administer » content right? I think that is the screen since on that screen, I see other content types that can have fields add to it. However, with my newly defined type, all I see is the link "edit content type", which as I explained above, only allows me to change name and description. (which led me to think it is a permission issue somewhere ?!?)
Try again...
Are you using 4.6?
if you are, try this:
1. Click on the ADMINISTER link.
2. Click on the CONTENT link that appears below the ADMINISTER link after step 1.
3. Click on the CONTENT TYPES link that appears below the CONTENT link after step 2.
you should see a list of your flexinode content types in a table.
Column 1 = the name you have given to the content type, e.g. news.
Column 2 = the description of the content type you have given.
Column 3 = operations including the option to add in custom fields.
If you can't see any options to do any of the following..
it sounds like you haven't installed flexinode.module correctly. The way itr works is it picks up external
[fieldtype].incfiles from within your /flexinode/ folder to populate the OPERATIONS column when you're at the admin/content/content types page.hope that helps
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
Thanks Dub for trying to
Thanks Dub for trying to flesh this out with me. According to the "changelog.txt" in the drupal directory, I have drupal 4.6.5 installed. The flexinode files were installed and re-downloaded + re-installed minutes ago (the link I used is http://drupal.org/files/projects/flexinode-4.6.0.tar.gz )
And the result is the same. You can see from the screenshot I took and posted at http://img2.imgspot.com/?u=/u/06/4/12/contenttype.gif
Note that the only type that I created and still beating my head on is the "2006 Moeson Application".
and yes, the various field_*.inc files are under the modules/flexinode directory (see directory image at http://img2.imgspot.com/?u=/u/06/4/12/flexinodedirectory.gif)
are you taking the proverbial?
Hi tiendon...
had a look at your screenshot and it appears to be working perfectly.
try this:
hope that helps
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
:) Now I'm really losing
:) Now I'm really losing it. :) In that screen,
in the column adjacent to the "2006 Moeson Application" content type, try clicking on the ADD TEXTFIELD link
Where is that Dub ? For "2006 ..", I only see the "edit content type" link ?? there r 2 "ADD TEXTFIELD" and they both belong to type "Title" (something i didn't create). (for clarification, I uploaded the screenshot again with the area highlighted.. the "2006" area is in pink, with no option to add any kind of field http://img2.imgspot.com/?u=/u/06/4/13/contenttype2.gif)
again, I can't thank u enuf. :)
no worries..
Just do this:
On that page you took the screen shot you have 2 rows and 3 columns.
Row 1 = the content type settings for flexinode content type #1
Row 2 = the content type settings for flexinode content type #2
For each row, you have 3 columns:
Column 1 = the name of the content type and the fields associated with that content type.
Column 2 = the descrprion of the content type.
Column 3 = operations.
if you are able to follow that. In column #3 for the "2006 Moeson Application" flexinode content type....click on *any* of the ADD (custom field) type links.
After adding a CUSTOM FIELD, it will appear below the default TITLE field (which every node *must* have by default).
Hope that helps
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
but but ..
the only link in the 3rd column (in the picture, it is the pink highlighted area) is "edit content type" (http://img2.imgspot.com/?u=/u/06/4/13/contenttype2.gif). all the other add links when I click on them, appropriately fields for the "title" type. btw, that is another mystery to me b/c
1. i don't know which module created "title" type
2. don't know where type "title" is defined (i.e. which table)
3. can't seem to create content type "title"
alas, if i know, i would create my type manually from w/in the db environment.
must be looking at...
Are you sure you posted the correct screen shot?
I can see a long list of ADD (field type) links in the 3rd column in this screen shot
http://img2.imgspot.com/?u=/u/06/4/13/contenttype2.gif
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
absolutely
the fields u see belong to the type "Title" which are defined twice (?!?) and I am still trying to figure out in which table this is all defined in.
I think you have confused
I think you have confused your self a lot here!
The 'title' *field* is a required field for ANY node type. Flexinode adds it by default and you cannot remove it.
The list of other Fleixnode fields down the right can be clicked on to add them to the new node type you are creating.
It's as easy as that!
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what happens
Hi tiendon..
What happens when you click on an ADD TEXT FIELD link?
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
Goshhhh I'm so stupid
it's embarrassing. I looked into the db and the code and then I realized that u are right all along. the "title" area are not node types; rather they are labels. So in that picture, there are only two flexinode types: event and "2006...". And to add the fields for them, just click in the "Title" area. Goodness !! perhaps the lines between the "2006..." and "Title" made me think that they are two different node type (i.e. the visual cue totally threw me off) Argghhh...
Thank you again Drub and have a nice day. :)