By alexisalexander on

I am very new, but I have looked through the forums for this question already.

I added two blocks on the right sidebar, both of which are meant to display rss feeds from other blogs, however when I am not logged in the blocks don't show up anywhere. I have fooled around with permissions, but nothing has changed.

Once again, I apologize for my ignorance and I really have tried to find the answer for hours before posting here

peace

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alexisalexander commented

I forgot to mention that I have already gone in the blocks admin area and configured them all different ways, with no change

what should the default settings be if you want the blocks to appear?

vm’s picture

vm commented

if you enable another block that you didn't create does the same effect occur?

To see default setting of a block create one and check. By default blocks are designed to show and you basically select finer grained control beyond that by adjusting the settings.

alexisalexander’s picture

alexisalexander commented

yes, no matter what block, it doesn't show up.....very frustrating!

vm’s picture

vm commented

edit the blocks and ensure you didn't set any role visibility on them.

beyond that go to administer -> post settings
if a button is there to rebuild the access table, click it and test

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tryitonce commented

In the configuration of the Blocks in question - make sure that there are no roles selected.

No roles selected means they are always visible - at least they should.

Make sure that the content of the blocks is not privileged to any role. Are the blogs only visible to logged-in users?

Good luck ....

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alexisalexander commented

I have tried all the suggestions, thanks for the help, still no luck

Is it possible that garland only allows for one right sidebar? I can see one, (only when I am logged in) but nothing else I have tried to add shows up

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alexisalexander commented

well I was able to put a poll that I created in the right sidebar, but only one rss feed block. Oh well!

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tryitonce commented

I guess you are halfway there. You will need to spend a little time investigating why one block shows and not the others of the rss feed.

You need to look again at permission settings - use the path to see all roles ..../admin/user/permissions
and not the role specific one such as - .........../admin/user/permissions/4 (4 = role no. 4 as defined by you) - this access coming from the role editing screen is a bit redundant for me. I think you always need to see all roles to set permissions - otherwise you easily make a mistake - either by not giving required permissions or more likely giving more than needed.

Good luck ....

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altundal commented

Hi,

Just in case happend to us once, if you have not enabled "access content" permission to any specific role for User online block..etc blocks will be hidden.

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davao wordpresser commented

I had the same problem but for my Image Slider Block.

I am using Drupal 7 and here's what I did:
1. Went to admin-> people -> permissions
2. Scrolled down to Dynamic display block
3. Toggled / allowed "view dynamic display blocks" for both "anonymous user" and "authenticated user"
4. Then saved permissions.

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brycefisherfleig commented

I encountered the same problem too in Drupal 7.15. This seems to be a permissions issue. Some system blocks will not display for anonymous users even when the block's visibility configuration (in /admin/structure/block) allows anyone to view that block on any page. [Apparently, Drupal checks the permissions for the block first, thus bypassing the block visibility settings. Changing the block visibility has no effect as noted above in this thread.]

Many contributed modules will provide new blocks as well. Some of these modules provide permissions settings that affect the new blocks. If you know or suspect that a block is provided by a module, look carefully at the permissions page for relevant settings listed under the module name.

Several system blocks are only available to authenticated or admin users by default in a clean Drupal install:

  1. Search -- admin-> people -> permissions > "Use search" check next to Anonymous and Authenticated users turns this on.
  2. Navigation*
  3. Shortcuts*
  4. User Menu*

*I'm not sure what permissions would be required to make these blocks visible to anonymous users. However, you probably don't want these blocks visible to anonymous users for security reasons.