Installing Drupal

Hi,

Is it possible to use the Queue to cause a node to be moved to the "published" state along with being moved to the "promoted" state? Does such behavior require futzing with the code of the Queue module?

This stems from my desire to not have Events show up in the Event calendar until they are moderated via the Queue.

Thanks,

I maintain the website for the dutch psychonomics society and am in the process of converting it to drupal.

One aspect of the current site is the members project "database" (flat text actually :)) which describes the members of the society and their projects, research interests etc.

Currently I see two options to convert that information (currently just listed as plain HTML with an alphabetical index, see nvp.nici.kun.nl > Leden van de NVP).

1) Write a script that converts each entry to a node and inserts its in de node database. Bonus: free search capability. Question: in the ERD diagram a link is between the node-table and a table called term_node. I haven't found out yet what the latter table contains and if I should fill it in concurrently with the node table.

2) Activate the profile module and convert each entry to an extended profile thingy. Big bummer: profiles are attached to accounts so I probably should create an account for each entry and then set some default/random passwd for each which I then should send out, and also profiles do not seem to get searched with the builtin search function (but I've tested that only very briefly).

So, the main question, to you, what seems the cheapest solution both in time and php-effort (I'm quite comfortable with php, although I've never dealt with databases). Is it easier to adapt the search module to include profile searches and create some function to display an (entire) memberlist, or is adding the database entries as 'flat' html files to the node database the simpler option?

I'm using Drupal 4.3.2, with the 4.3 Image module.

I discoverd this trick, and I thought I would pass it on for the other newbies (like me.) If you have the image module settings set to display the LAST thumb first, and the newest->oldest images first, within the catagory, sometimes you might find that you are able to load 2 or three images per minute. That can be a problem if you need the images to be in a particular order because the timer is set for minutes, rather than seconds. What that means is, if you load more than one image per minute, they might not show up in the correct order because they all have the same time stamp.

Not to worry. Load all the imgaes for your particular gallery or sub-gallery. Once you are finished, go back and check to see if they are in the correct order. If not, you can manipulate the image display order by changning (editing) the time stamp. You can use the time setting to move the images around to the order that you want. Also, if at the end, there is one particular image that you want to be the main thumb, edit the time stamp of that image to make it the appear to be the last (latest) image loaded.

For example, I have five main catagories, and each catagory has multiple sub-catagories. Each main catagory shows a thumb (the last image loaded) as it's sample (or main) image. I chose one image as the main image for the catagory, and edited it's time stamp to make it the last image loaded. I used the same trick for each of the sub catagories. Now, all the images are in the correct order, and each catagory is showing the best main thumb as it's catagory sample image.

Not sure what I did when messing around with block and module settings, but my Admin block has disappeared! Whatever I did, I can't get back in to do any administration!

One thing I tried: deleting my own account, on the theory that it would then treat me as the first account and give me admin privileges. It would not delete that account, and so I went into PHPMyAdmin and deleted the one user record. Next visit, I was able to recreate the account. But still no Admin block.

Help!

Sometimes I'm working on an article that I dont want to be published yet. In these cases I get about half of it done, uncheck the published checkbox and then submit the mofo. When I go back to work on it again the article disappears. I can't find any link to it or anything. I check in recent posts, view submissions or my blog and I cannot for the life of me find it. How do I find the articles that I choose not to publish yet? Can a path be made to find them?

I am unable to import any* rss feeds in my drupal 4.3.2. Tried many feeds and get this error:

warning: fopen
failed to open stream: Connection refused in /home/httpd/httpdocs/modules/import.module on line 313

*Interestingly, I can import a feed from another site on the same server this site resides on.

My reading of the archives brought up mention of a DNS resolver on the host as the culprit and not a problem with drupal. Can someone provide more information that I can bring to my hosting provider in order for them to correct this problem?