General discussion

On my Drupal site, I post most of the content. I do want members with blogger permissions to be able to post blog entries and stories as well, but I do *not* want those stories to automatically promote to the front page. I'd like to control that myself.

I'm sure this is probably really easy to do in Drupal, but darned if I can see a setting that makes it possible.

Can someone point me in the right direction, please?

Over the last year the progress of the Online Drupal Handbook is amazing and nicely structured. The Doc team is to well applauded on their hard work – as well as the others who have been adding pages to the Handbook.

The Forum however, contains numerous posts that are no longer pertinent and some of the advice is actually inaccurate or misleading – based on the current versions of Drupal available for Download.

Namely, I am questioning the importance, accuracy and reliably of the 2002, 2003 and perhaps 2004 forum posts.

I just installed CivicSpace. I was wondering if there is any way to prevent attackers from attempting logging in a user account unlimitedly. Is there any program to lock out the user account after say 5 failed attempts in 1 minute? If the account is locked out, an email will be sent to the user's email address with a new password. Is it a necessary feature to ensure the security of the users account? I am new to this and I just want to make sure my users' accounts are secure. I would also like to know if anyone has other suggestion regarding the security of a community-based website.

Well, the title says everything. I would like to have a set of custom forms in wich a user can fill in some values. Then I want to take all these values and show them side by side for comparative reasons. Is there some module or way to do this without too much hassle in drupal ? Or will I end up having to code a script myself for this. (Not an option!) ......

Gdev..

I'm about worn out trying to get e-commerce 4.6 working for me. 4.7 isn't an option for a production site so I don't see anywhere else to go but either (a) something like Zencart or (b) put the catalog on the Paypal site.

My issues with e-commerce 4.6 :
- there is zero user doc far as I can tell: I need to work out the workflow design from code and write a user manual for payments clerk (who I'm married to, so she doesn't take kindly to being dumped in the deep end without it)
- it does not handle non-ship products well (most of mine are subs and fees), e.g. admin/store/transaction offers "shipping notify" as workflow for all transactions so the operator has to go into items to manually check if there is something shippable in there
- damned if I can get PayPal IPN to work, so all transactions have to be manually reconciled against emails from Paypal then manually edited to update the status
- the user must use identical email addresses in Drupal and Paypal else it doesn't work
- I wrote my own Paypal sandbox code
- it does not handle recurring payments, e.g. subs: it just sends a reminder. Not much use if you want a monthly option
- product module provides no id or class tags for theming, and is way ugly without them. I guess most users are hand-coding catalog pages
- I don't mind for user community functionality but I'm not comfortable putting financial transactions on a code-base this raw

I am a newbie, so please forgive my dumbness and real basic questions:
Are RC2's like CVS's?
Can I expect many of them prior to a final version for 4.7?
After the final version of 4.7, will someone be developing new versions of the many mods now not usable from 4.6 (getting fatal error messages)?
To go from one RC to another, what is the best way to accomplish it and keep existing changes to the settings, db, etc.?