Drupal 7.x

I have just installed Drupal 7 for the first time. On the installation setup I didn't have the option to select clean URL's. Now when I create a page I can specify a URL alias, but what I'm not seeing is the ability to have an automatic alias created. Is there something I have missed?

I have gone into the Configuration > URL aliases page but I don't see any options to enable automatic aliases.

Any ideas?

Thanks

This is a general enquiry and I'm looking for 'positive' opinions on workflow, storage etc to help my D7 learning curve and push forward my creative ideas. (:
Let's say hypothetically that one wants to create a 'knowledge' base using D7, allow users to view but only 'retrieve' full texts (of any nature, texts, knowledge, poetry, maybe even software such as php scripts) after subscribing can access a 'repository' for limited or full download access dependent on access privalegies based on subscriber paid access fees. Maybe have the texts converted on the fly into pdfs.

Is it possible using Drupal 7 to allow someone editing rights over part of a node whilst preventing the remainder from being edited.

I know I can allow or prevent editing of a whole node (All or nothing).

What I want to do, is to allow the owner editing rights of one node field, but not give editing rights to the remaining node fields.

I've looked at views but haven't managed to do this. I've also looked at various modules without any luck.

Does anyone know if this is possible, or is it all or nothing?

Greetings,

I'm a new Drupal user, and i'm really impress by the large panel of possibility Drupal brings in just a few clicks.

I've worked on Liferay before which is a java based Portal, and we had something called Structure and Template for webcontent (the equivalent of article).

Structure could be assimilated to Content type, it defined the field that would be displayed for the user to write his article: title, abstract, body, picture etc...
First question: Is there a way to set a field to be repeatable?

The second part was Template which described with velocity and html, the way the various fields would be displayed. Picture in the upper right corner, title with specific css class, abstract with another, body split in 2 columns.
Second question: How can i do this with Drupal?

A third question is how can i arrange custom pages that will be static, to display a set article (article1) on one side, and smaller text on the other side (article2). There must be some other way than to create specific blocks for those article and set them to appear only one that one specific page...

See this picture to see what i mean: http://ancient-dawn.24.eu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/...

There has to be another way than to create block for each article and to set them to display only on that one page through the Structure/block page...

In Drupal 6, I could use the following code to display user profile fields

$profile =  profile_load_profile($user); 
print $user->profile_firstname ; 

However, in Drupal 7, I can define additional user fields , (e.g. field_firstname) using Configuration, People, Account Settings, Manage fields. Now how do I get data from the user fields, say field_firstname as profile_load_profile() is not applicable in Drupal 7?

Thanks for your help.

I am trying to theme a teaser differently from the full node.

My specific problem is that i want to do this:

.field-name-body { float:right;}

... in the teaser, but not in the full node,

but its difficult, because teaser and full node uses exactly the same id's

Can someone guide me, how i can theme them differently ?