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| Project: | Prepopulate |
| Version: | 6.x-1.1 |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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This seems like a great idea - perhaps it will allow me to prepopulate my comment form 'homepage' field with 'http://'?
But as is often the case with drupal, i feel like i'm reading documentation that starts about halfway thru. Maybe technical people get it, but us semi-technicals are left clueless.
For this module, the many example URLs look great, but would someone be so kind as to tell me where to put these bloody things?
For example, this URL is on the project page: http://www.example.com/node/add/blog?edit[title]=this is the title. What would you do with that to make it function?
I'd be even more grateful if someone could offer a few URL examples that apply to comment fields specifically. Would they follow the same pattern as the others and look like: .../node/add/content?edit[homepage]=http://. I imagine not, but am not sure what would be correct.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
#1
Hello John,
What are you trying to do?
I was using this module to make bookmarlets, are you doing something similar?
I'm trying to imagine how you want to pre-populate in a comment field, and where this info comes from.
If you can give an example I think myself or someone else can help more.
#2
hi heather:
thanks so much for following up.
quite probably, i don't understand the basic premise of this module. for instance, i don't know what a 'bookmarklet' is. I see the terminology in the module docs, but no idea what it means. the docs, while more informative than some modules, is so vague and/or assumes so much prior knowledge that i really have no idea what it does - but the basic idea of 'prepopulate any field' sounds like it might do the trick.
the specific (and only) thing i was thinking to do was to prepopulate my comment form 'homepage' field with 'http://' so that users don't get an error when they fail to enter it. it is a drupal pet peeve of mine knowing that my commenters get that error ~100% of the time since there is no way, a priori, for them to know to put it there. i acutally just posted another support request about this earlier yesterday - http://drupal.org/node/621342 - and then saw this module mentioned. and i was on the mollom site yesterday and they do this thing exactly on the 'add subscription' page.
for this to work, then obviously as on the mollom page, users would need to be able to continue typing onward from the http:// - which this module may or may not allow.
any further ideas are welcome.
thanks again.
john