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Good news, bad news.

Good news: I'm dying to use Drupal more extensively and have installed and configured test sites on three servers and worked through a number of newbie and eccentric application issues. I like the system very much.

Bad news: the feature write up on permissions as well as the detailed information needs a more explicit warning or statement that Drupal in its current incarnation does *not* support what most people think of a group and individual access permissions to limit access to pages, nodes, or other taxonomic elements.

I'm stupid and didn't check this out thoroughly enough, and am now facing a decision to drop Drupal completely, or try to install multiple db's and instances of it, not a good option except for very simple installations where you only have one group that needs special content not available to other groups.

I see discussions about adding more granular permissions access options, which is great. Many people who work with Windows and Linux systems assume (...and I realize the ass that makes me ;-)) that a 4.0 system release will have basic content access permissions, particularly when you read about role permissions in the feature write-up.

Every site I work on except for completely public sites, requires access permissions to limit and grant access to specialized or 'confidential' content. My understanding is that the current roles really only provide for a variety of administrators and moderators not *content* access permissions.

I'm about to start a community of a university which will have approximately 15000 users; but the authentication system does not let a user open a new window ,i.e. with his sign-in name. If the system will stay like this or there is no work on this bug; i'll consider other CMS's. Thanks by now.
With kindest regards.
Lashae-

I've read the issues list, and although I'm installing on *nix, I want to use some dates outside of Unix epoch for "history posts". If I make this change, I think I want to change two or more of the db tables. The two candidates that jumped out were "node" and "entry", but I'm new to drupal's terminology - any suggestions as to whether I should just change all the time columns to double and ensure that I convert all log times, current times, etc., to doubles via the adodb_* toolset? Or should I be using mysql's datetime?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

We're hesitating between Notify and Subscription modules for a new Drupal site. Is Subscription doing the same that Notify but with a wider range of options from the user point of view? Are both equally stable? Has anybody tested both? Could you recommend websites using them?

Thank you.

My curent setup 4.2.0 and I want to upgrade to the latest version.

Is it simply a matter of backing up both the database and the directory installation, copying the new version over and running the upgrade script?

Is it that easy?

I'm using 4.2 right now but have run into bugs with the queue and taxonomy, I've searched the forums and have found no resolution to my problem.

I read that 4.3.2 doesn't have the problems with queue and I would like to upgrade. My question is, I'm also using these modules.

Bookmarks
Chatbox
Feedback

They all say that they are for 4.2, but if I upgraded would they still be useable?