Post installation

Hello all:

I'm trying to get rolling with Organic Groups, but I have a problem. When create some content in a group, I can't get the access control info (the checkboxes under Groups in edit mode) to save. I can neither limit the content to specific groups, nor successfully save the Public value either.

As far as I can tell I have no other modules installed that would conflict with og. Very bare bones install.

So I'm running this webportal, aggregating blogs from various sources. For most parts things are running smoothly but there are two issues that occur repeatedly and I rather need them to be fixed.

1. Sporadic encoding problems.

All the blogs are in Icelandic and thus most of them encoded with iso-8859-1. As Drupal is using UTF-8 encoding there seems to be a clash every now and then (very irregularily), leading to the fact that all non-english characters in a given blog entry (á, æ, ö, ð, þ to name a few) are displayed in a weird character combination (á, æ, Ö, ð, þ to name a few).
This does not apply to all feeds at the same time, and not always the same feeds, but some are more at risk than others.

Most of the time this can be fixed by manually updating the feed, but that is not always the case.

It has been suggested to me that the iso-8859-1 encoded feeds are being stored in Drupal as utf-8 without being transcoded first, but I don't have a faintest idea how to solve this or where to solve it, for that matter.

Searching the drupal website suggests that there's a function named drupal_convert_to_utf8() and to me it looks like a possible fix, but what I'm lacking is the skill to apply it to the problem.

Any suggestions?

2. Blogger feed aggregation problems.

As with the other problem, I've run across that one around here somewhere, but here's the gist of it:

Hi there,

My front page is (node) and every time I post a story and post it on the front page, Drupal only shows a portion of the story and provides a "read more" link. Is there anything in the settings that would let me display all of the stories in their entirety or let me pick and choose which ones to expand fully and which ones to have a "read more" link?

Thanks for your help!

I am a rookie to Drupal, so I am probably making some stupid mistake.
I did manage to get Drupal 5.0 rc1 installed and so far everything seems to be working just fine.
But when I tried to install the tinymce module and the imce module, I had trouble with the former.
1. I installed both of them. The IMCE appeared in the optional module list, and I could enable it, but I guess it does nothing without tinymce. TINYMCE never even appeared.
2. I got rid of both and tried installing TINYMCE again on its own. I admit that I got confused by the variety of different install.txt files to read, plus the HTML version from the TINYMCE people.
3. I was quite perplexed by the two TINYMCE compressed files, tinymce_2_0_8.zip and tinymce-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz. I tried installing them in either order, one first, then the other. In all cases I used WinZIP to unzip the files to my desktop.
4. I finally determined (maybe wrongly) that the latter is the Drupal Module, and the former is the actual independent TINYMCE product used by many people outside the Drupal world. I deleted all related files from my desktop and through my ftp program, I deleted the TINYMCE folder and all subfolders from my site.
5. I unzipped tinymce-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz, then unzipped tinymce_2_0_8.zip and they seemed to work together. Then I uploaded them again.
6. Every time I had something up loaded, I went to my site's Modules page, but it was never there.

Trying to get the Gallery block to appear top of my contents - I set its weight to -1 but it still sinks...! What appears at the top on the front page is all my forum topics which are promoted to front page.... Why is it that I can't get the Gallery block to appear first...??

Thx for any help.

I've got a Drupal installation with quite a lot of content. At first I added links to the nodes in menu blocks, but then it got annoying because I had to manually create links every time I added a new node.
So I decided I would use the Taxonomy system or organize my content, abolish one of the sidebars and create portal pages where the links are generated from the tags.
For example, a page that has links to all the nodes with the 'Content Type' tag being 'Seller Review'

Is this possible and if so how do you do it?

Thanks a lot
- Sam