Web links menu item and recent/popular/etc blocks only present when logged in. How do I enable these for anonymous users? (I suspect the blocks are enabled, as I ticked the boxes when adding them to the site, but that there are no entries under them so they don't show up.) Please let me know what settings I should tick.

One of the attached files shows how I have the Recent block configured (and how the block shows up on the lefthand side when logged in). The other shows how the Recent block does not appear for anonymous users. (The weird colors of the screencaps are artifacts as saving as .gif in MS Paint.)

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CommentFileSizeAuthor
dizzinon_weblinks_anon.GIF77.3 KBjoebyrne
dizzinon_weblinks_block_settings.GIF71.94 KBjoebyrne

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Remove the checks from the "Role specific visibility" settings. If you want a block shown to everyone, then those shouldn't be checked at all. It probably should be working, but if it is not, then I would think that is a core issue with the Blocks module.

I rarely limit a block to specific roles, therefore I rarely check those roles.

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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joebyrne commented

That had no effect. (Not surprising because all checked should = neither checked.)

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joebyrne commented

I'm having the same problems w/ logged in users (other than admin). Clearly my configuration is messed up.

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Tonyc1 commented

I have the same problem. . I have check all the other individual permissions removed the checks from the "Role specific visibility" settings.
I have found that if the "Administer Nodes" permission is checked, you can see the Recent Links Block. Surely this can't be right? I can display other blocks with out a problem. HAs anyone got any ideas, or is it a bug in the Web Links module.

Does anyone know how to create blocks for groups (in plain English) as I haven't managed it yet?

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Mr. Byrne's problems was that he had not given "access weblinks" permission to those roles. Have you checked that?

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Tonyc1 commented

Thank you for your quick reply. I have given "access weblinks" permission to all roles . It's only the "Administer Nodes" permission that seems to have any effect. I have read that this is a general Drupal problem. I have a test Role where everything is turned on and it works fine. Then the only thing I turn off is the "Administer Nodes" permission and the recent web link block doesn't show

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There's nothing special about the Recent block that others don't have. In particular, the "popular" block uses almost exactly the same code path. Does that one work?

I just turned on "Recent" in development site and the block is even visible to anonymous users, who have "access weblinks" and little else.

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Tonyc1 commented

I have added a 'popular block' to a panels 2 page but don't see anything at all, even as an administrator login.

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Ah, you didn't mention Panels before. See #426422: Dynamically building block content. There are problems with Panels. And with the way we get treated by the developer there (#533622: Adding New Group and Hierarchical Select Module), I don't know that we will ever be able to make it work. Try it as a standard block in a standard block region and see if it works correctly.

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

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