Modules: Administration

About This Node

About This Node creates a block that displays information about the node you're viewing. It allows users to see, at a glance, the following information without clicking "Edit" or digging into revision history:

• node ID (NID)
• node type (content type)
• creation date and time
• creation author (user who created the node)
• last updated date and time
• last updated author (user who made the most recent change to the node)
• published status
• promoted to front page status
• sticky status
• commenting status (enabled, read only, or disabled)

Note: About This Node is not built with end-users in mind. Rather, this is an administrative tool to allow admins and other privileged users quick access to important information about a node. Requests to add end-user-facing features will be denied (with a friendly apology, of course).

Installation

This module, when enabled, creates a block that displays the information about a node. You will need to display this block in one of your theme's regions (at Admin > Site Building > Blocks).

Version	Date	Links	Status
6.x-1.0-rc	2008-Apr-16	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x
5.x-1.2	2008-May-02	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Account Types

Use 1.4 version.

If you have a ton of users and a ton of roles on your site this module aims to eliminate errors in assigning roles and simply make it easier to keep track of who should be able to do what.

The site admin -

1. defines account types
2. assigns roles to each account type via checkboxes

Either the site admin or user admin -

1. assigns account types to users
2. assigns roles to users based on the limits of the account type

The user -

1. can't tell the difference

Permissions and roles behave as they always have. Account types pretty much just disable the role checkboxes on the user edit page so that the wrong role can't be assigned the user. This is important if you have a person that is a little technically challenged helping to administer users or who doesn't understand that a particular person isn't supposed to be assigned a role just because they requested it.

NEW FEATURE! You can now select roles that will be auto-assigned when the user gets the Account Type assigned to them.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.4	2007-Nov-28	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Admin block

The adminblock module enables admins to display a block with the comments approval queue and the node moderation queue. Each item gets their own edit link and delete link for quick administration.

Version	Date	Links	Status
6.x-1.x-dev	2008-Apr-17	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot
5.x-1.0	2007-May-30	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Admin RSS

Features

The AdminRSS module creates RSS feeds for the administrative information for Drupal websites.

These feeds are protected with a keystring that must be set in admin/settings/adminrss page. The resulting pages can then be read at:

• adminrss/node/<keystring> - RSS feed for unapproved nodes
• adminrss/comment/<keystring> - RSS feed for unapproved comments

This can be most useful if you are managing a number of different drupal websites and rather than visiting each one to see if there are comments/nodes that need to be approved you can use an RSS reader to find out.

Impact on Drupal

Two configuration variables. No schema changes. Should not interfere with other modules.

News

• 2007-11-10 : a -dev release is now available for the DRUPAL-5 branch

Credits

Thanks to Fredrik Jonsson and Gabor Hojtsy for their modules adminblock and commentrss which were heavily cribbed from to develop this module.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.x-dev	2007-Nov-11	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2007-Nov-13	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Administration

THIS MODULE WAS THE PRECURSOR TO THE ADMIN SECTION UPDATES THAT WENT INTO CORE IN DRUPAL 5 AND THEREFORE WILL NOT BE PORTED TO DRUPAL 5.X OR DRUPAL 6.X. ALSO, I NO LONGER MAINTAIN ANY DRUPAL 4.7 SITES THEREFORE I WILL NOT BE PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THIS MODULE GOING FORWARD. (if anyone wishes to take over the maintenance of this module please contact me)

This module will reorganize your sites administration functions into logical groupings of tasks. The modules focuses on presenting a task based interface to administrators to help them create an experience for their users.

It also provides a site administration "Dashboard" where overview statistics of site activity will be readily available. It also includes links to the Drupal handbook for tasks that Drupal administrators have found difficult and require documentation.

THIS MODULE IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT

dashboard screenshot 1
dashboard screenshot 2

Version	Date	Links	Status
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2006-Nov-13	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Adminmenu Dhtml

Adminmenu_dhtml renders a selected menu as a DHTML menu. This module provides a drop down or other style admin menu that is more convenient for administrators and won’t interfere with a website’s theme. Several menu styles are included, including a flash based tree menu built with openLaszlo.

Version	Date	Links	Status
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2006-Nov-15	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Advanced menu item settings

This module adds an interface to three internal menu item settings.

You can now choose for every menu item if it should appear in the breadcrumb, if it should appear in the menu tree and if should be visible even if it does not have any children.

If you'd like to help test the 5.x release, please download HEAD from http://drupal.org/node/96241

NOTE: This module will be discontinued after Drupal 5.

There will be no releases for Drupal 6 and beyond due to a rewrite of the entire menu system.

This module is unsupported. Use at your own risk. I won't review and fix issues for this module.

AES encryption

In short, here's what this module does:

For site owners:
This module can provide you with readable passwords. Some users will be able to see other users passwords in plain text if they have a role with the permission to do so.

For developers:
This module can provide you with a very simple and easy to use encryption API. Just check out the aes_encrypt and aes_decrypt functions. It really can't get any simpler.

Note: This module requires the PHP mcrypt extension! It will not work without it.

Version	Date	Links	Status
6.x-1.3	2008-Apr-01	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x
5.x-1.2	2007-Dec-06	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Ajax Table

Overview

The Ajax Table module is an API-based tool that will allow other modules to create ajax-refreshable tables by supplying a few parameters. There are some handy utilities built in that aid in managing data more quickly than many Drupal modules offer by default. With an Ajax Table, it is easy to add ajax-based input columns to change data on the fly. There is also a utility that works similarly to an auto-complete field, but displays results in a fully customizable Ajax table, which supports pagination and in-place editing.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.2	2008-Jan-15	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Audit your content

Much content + inconsistent quality – this module = frustration

Benefits of this module

• Go through all of your content, one piece at a time, to make the quality more consistent.
• Run multiple audits at the same time.
• Bookmark the content that needs further consideration.
• Let your teammates help you.
• Keep a record of what happened.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.x-dev	2007-Jun-19	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Authored Nodes Block

This module simply creates a block that will display a list of node links that have been authored by the currently logged in user. The list can be filtered by specific content types, and can also be configured to display links to unpublished nodes as well.

This is a very lightweight solution to a specific need a client had. If you require a more robust "user-centric" content manager, I suggest checking out the Workspace module.

Future plans for this module are to include pagination and tabbed browsing, from within the block, to view content and uploaded files. I also plan to add multi-lingual support and write a port for Drupal-6.x.

For now, you can achieve the same functionality with the Views module. I offer this as a simple solution for those that don't want / need Views on their site, or for those that like to keep administrative related content out of their Views and use helper modules instead.

funded by centre{source}

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.0	2008-Apr-13	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Auto locale import

The autolocale module and enclosed localized install profile provides a profile to automatically import interface translations in install time and later when modules are enabled / disabled.

Most of the module's functionality (with better implementation) is built into Drupal 6, so there will be no release of this module for Drupal 6. The package reimport functionality for Drupal 6 is consolidated into the l10n_client module.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.x-dev	2007-Oct-14	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Avatar Approval

This module creates a workflow for moderating user avatars. When a new avatar is uploaded, it is placed in the 'not yet moderated' queue, and not displayed. A moderator can then either approve, disapprove, or delete the avatar. Only approved avatars will be shown site wide.

Avatar moderation is done on the admin/content/approval page, where moderators will find three tabs. Not yet moderated, Approved, and Disapproved. An uploaded avatar will keep it's approval status until it is deleted. ie if an avatar is disapproved, and the user attempts to upload the same image again, it will automatically receive a disapproved status.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.0	2007-Sep-15	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Block Assign

This module provides an alternate way to manage blocks. If you have many blocks that are displayed in different configurations across your site's pages, managing them through the standard blocks admin interface can be tedious. For example, say you decide you want to add six blocks to three different pages based on request URI and four blocks (including two of the original six) to three other pages based on node type. This quickly becomes a frustrating exercise as you think through writing logic per block that will handle the overlap correctly. Block Assign simply provides another approach to organizing blocks.

Please be very sure to read the release notes before installing. They warn of (intentional) potential data loss as a result of configuring the module.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.1	2008-Feb-06	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x