I'm new to Drupal; using 5.16. I've been playing with it for 2 days and have decided that it is almost perfect for a project I'm working on. I've been very fortunate ('til now) in finding answers and solutions to every little issue or tweak I've encountered, thanks to the Drupal community. I searched high and low with no luck, so here I am.

Cut to the chase: I can see the panes in the 'content' tab under 'panel pages', but they have a little orange asterisk by them, and do not show up in the profiles.

I don't know what else to include here. I tagged this as a "support request" as opposed to a "bug report", because even though everything else seems to be working the way it's supposed to, it's probably my fault.

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liam mcdermott’s picture

liam mcdermott commented
Assigned: Teratoma » Unassigned
Status: Active » Fixed

Generally, a little orange asterisk means you need to press the 'Save' button at the bottom of the page. :)

If the comment form is not appearing on a user profile it will be because the profile has not been created yet. If you click User profile, then fill-in the required details and click Save, you should find that the node will be created and the comment wall will appear.

If you think it's confusing: you're correct. The problem is that Drupal doesn't treat user profiles as nodes to begin with, and the Bio (or whatever profiles as nodes module you're using) does not create create them for existing users, only when the user edits their profile, or a new user is created.

This took me a while to work out myself, which is why I'm here, and I'm no Drupal newbie. :)

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Teratoma commented
Assigned: Unassigned » Teratoma
Status: Fixed » Active

Ok, further digging around has revealed a partial solution - so this becomes a noob issue.

I created a new user with the registration form and eureka! The new profile automatically gets a comment wall and form. My other two 'members' were the 'admin' user and another that I created as an admin (skipping the reg form), as will most of the users be.

SO. How do I "create a profile node" for the existing two, and ones that will be created that way in the future?

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Teratoma commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thanks Liam, I was composing my last message while you responded, and you're right, I am confused. I don't understand how the profiles had "not been created yet", seeing as how they were visible to anonymous visitors and could participate in almost every part of the site. Their recent activity, picture and buddy list all showed up on their profiles that did not exist as well, just no comment wall.

Anyhow, problem solved, as I've edited their bios, and just as you said, the comment section appeared.

Thanks again Liam! I'm definitely enjoying working with Drupal. My project is ambitious but I'm impressed with how easy everything is - even solving problems!

Closed!

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liam mcdermott commented

By the way: it's worth mentioning that bio nodes will be created whenever a new user signs up to the site. So, no need to worry about that. :)

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Teratoma commented

For the time being, all of the 'users' (and content) will be generated by me - it's supposed to end up being a 'social network' made up of fictional characters. I was thinking it would be easier to create all user profiles as the admin, but if full functionality can't be implemented that way then I'll just use the registration form.

I have considered creating the entire user base all at once in a format that I could add using phpmyadmin, which is admittedly beyond my skills right now, but not so beyond that I won't be able to figure it out.

The main goal of this project is to tell an elaborate, epic sci-fi story in the form of posts to the forum and interaction between the characters. I do intend to open it up to the public at some point, but only after I've established the bulk of the material.

Thanks so much for the help - do let me know if I can return the favor in any way - much of what I'm doing here is part of my personal learning process, but if what I'm learning can benefit the community in any way I am more than happy to share.

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BradM commented
Assigned: Teratoma » Unassigned
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I feel like a dope for re-opening this, but the main drupal site search is broken and I can't find any other support issues regarding this.

I just updated from the alpha to the latest version, and after some struggling (mainly due to my previous installs relying on guestbook and node profile), for the most part everything is working fine -- have switched to bio and want to use regular comments for the profile rather than the guestbook module. Yet no matter what I do I cannot get a comment form (and therefore comments) to appear on the profile. They are in the appropriate user profile panel (as created by APK) yet I can't get them to show up.

I even tried adding the guestbook mini-panel but all that shows up is the custom text block ("Welcome to my guestbook. Please leave a message") and not the comment stuff. Also, read/write for comments is enabled on both user profile and uprofile.

Is there some other drupal switch that I'm missing that could cause this problem? Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks, Brad.

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BradM commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Discovered that all profiles are set with comments disabled...no idea how this happened. Anyway, I just need to run some sort of mysql query to reset the comments to read/write and all should be good. ;)