General discussion

hi!
I have seen on some drupal-powered sites a link in the links section under a node content the link "%username's blog" but I don't have that link on either of my drupal-powered sites (both are only in development, one uses current cvs, the other 4.4.1). I suppose if a story/page/etc. is written by a user who has a personal blog on the site, the link to her/his blog should appear. What could I be doing wrong?

So, for no apparent reason, the menus module has stopped showing the menu blocks, ALSO there is no admin options or module options in the navigation for this module anymore....?

What gives, this just seemed to happen overnight and I cant think of a single thing that i've done to cause this....

Nick

Hello everyone,
I don't know about anyone else, but the Search button being out of line with the Search input box on the Search Results page is pretty ANNOYING to me. I have been fiddling with this for a long while...too long. Does anyone know how to line them up? I know all the information is in includes/common, but I just can't line them up. Will somebody PLEASE enlighten me?

Thanks for reading,
Larry

Hello reader, I am new to Drupal. Please excuse my ignorance in advance. I am not an experienced web developer, but am an engineer and programmer. My girlfriend is a graphic artist who also dabbles in web site design. She’s been seeking my technical assistance on some recent projects and as a result I’ve learned some php/mysql/html web development.(Now I know enough to get into serious trouble -- or even scarier, work.)

We have a client who’s asked for collaboration features for their web site. They are a small services company and they hire contractors to work on various projects. The customers, company, and contractors are geographically disbursed. They want to be able to share files, discuss company issues, and discuss project issues. The users will be professional people with average ‘office’ computer skills. They’d like to be able to have customers and contractors work in a ‘sandbox’ site without having access to all the information on the main site. They also want the ability to view the contents of files within the web browser without explicitly downloading the file. Version control would also be a nice feature.

So far, I’ve looked into using Drupal, and Microsoft’s Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). I researched a few CMS systems, but most are way beyond there budget (probably looking at a few 000s.) The WSS solution is very attractive in that it’s simple, targeted at the average office worker, and offers the feature set that they need. The problem is that hosting the site is complicated that it’s a MS server solution, and they’re currently running Windows 2000 server, WSS comes with Windows Server 2003.

There seems to be a fine line between the seperation of content with Drupal. What I mean is, there isn't a large amount of difference between a "story", "weblog", etc. I think Drupal is pretty good so far except for that. I was wondering if anyone could explain maybe a better approach to making the different types of nodes appear different from one another.

So, apart from the fact that the forum module is now missing from the downloads....? (anyone explain that?)

I cant seem to find a way to promote users to 'forum moderator' status IE: they would only have certain permissions on the forums.... the groups module is broken and that looks like the only possiblity..

So 2 Q's:

• What happened to the forum module?
• Is it possible to implement permissions like phpBB on the forum ONLY?

Many thx!

Nick