General discussion

My sincere apologies if this is not the right forum for this

Hello everybody,

A leading NGO based out of Bangalore who works in the field of “Participatory Democracy” and “Advocacy” related issues is moving to Free Open Source Software (FOSS) for their website development.

Looking for volunteers who have the following skill-sets :

1. Knowledge of PHP, Drupal, MySQL,
2. Knowledge of Drupal,
3. Knowledge of CSS/HTML

Tenative start date for the project : Last week of July,
Tenative end date for the project : Mid October

i am able to create new roles under administer->access control. but as administrator, how do i add existing users to a role? thanks.

jack.

Hi, i am new to drupal and i am trying to build a site that is similar in layout to the drupal front page. at the top of the drupal website first page, there is a block that says

"Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites."

Hi everyone,

I'm building my first Drupal site and have hit a wall. Here's the situaion: the site will have multiple sub-sites, one for each country. Each country sub-site will have a different language and its own version of several pages, plus some unique pages. To make navigation easier, I've set up each subsite with its own clean URL prefix -- e.g. a page for Australia could be at au/Products.htm while the same page for Germany (with its own content, images, etc...) would be at gr/Products.htm. Each country sub-site will have its own content manager(s) who can't have access to other countries' pages.

So here are my questions:
1) How do I set up each country sub-site with the appropriate access controls? Is that just through "Category Permissions" under "Access Control"? Do I need to set up a different user category for each country? BTW, when I go to "Category Permissions" and "edit" one of the roles, I get the following error multiple times: "user warning: Table 'noobster.term_access' doesn't exist query: SELECT * FROM term_access WHERE rid='2' in .../drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120. " Any idea what that is or what I can do about it?

2) I created a category vocabulary called "Country" and listed each country (e.g. "Australia", "Germany") as a term under it. Is that the right approach?

3) I've created a theme with a couple of templates, and each template looks for images based on the name of the page. For example, the Products.htm page looks for an image called Products.gif. The problem is arising when I need to create several pages called Products.htm (one for each country), since they all try to pull the same Products.gif image, even though it's meant for only a certain language page. How do I set up the template so it looks for the appropriate image, and what do I need to name my images for that to work? (Right now, the template simply looks for an image called print $title .gif )

I'm in the process of developing a new Drupal-powered website with two other developers and have struck a problem I'm hoping somebody has thought of / conquered before.

The problem

Normally, multi-developer website projects aren't an issue with CVS / Subversion and a staging server for your efforts. However Drupal is special in that much of the development isn't in writing PHP code per se, but in configuring an out-of-the-box install (+ some modules) from within the Adminsitration section of Drupal. You know, things like adding in content types, custom Flexinodes, taxonomies, etc.

Since all this configuration can quickly become complex and resides all within the Drupal database, I'm struggling with a way of managing 3 developers all working on configuring various components of the same Drupal website.

An example

To take one example, what if two developers want to test and configure a new taxonomy structure / term on their own sandbox versions of the site? Once their happy with the way it works, how do they then merge it back in to the main site? What happens if they two taxonomies conflict? What if you want to roll back some congiuration changes?

In a nutshell

In other words, the ease with which CVS can handle mutli-developer projects--with code being checked out, branched, merged and updated--is absent from the complex DB-based configuration that is required for a highly-customised Drupal website.

Hello All,

Can someone point me the right direction in getting my boxes looking alittle better. Even on this site the boxes have nice rounded corners and look good. Are these images or something that can be done with the css file?

Thanks

~Shane