Post installation

The teaser of one of my articles was way too long. Even after readjusting them to 200 words (from 400) the teaser was still more than 200 words. So I went into the database and shortened it. After I made some mods to the article, the teaser was recreated but again way too long. Why was it still more than 200 words?

Andre
http://www.opentravelinfo.com
http://www.aguntherphotogrpahy.com

Usinf front_page module i want to add to the page title displayed on the home page. Currently all that is used is "Site name |".

This code in font_page.module is what i assume to be the answer but i cant get it to add what i want. Any ideas?

The next feature I need to implement for my site is control over who can post certain types of content.

There are 5 roles (or so), only two of whom should be able to post any kind of content. The other roles should only be able to make comments, and make forum postings.

However .. the "authenticated user" role gets to make blog postings, and I don't want them to be able to do so.

Here's what I've found:

admin / access control: There's a permission for "edit own blog", but under book there's both "create book pages" and "edit own book pages". Also there's both "create forum topics" and "edit forum topics". In other words, the access control doesn't offer a "create blog entry" permission.

My desire would be solved very quickly if there was a permission named "create blog entry".

Taxonomy access; admin/access control/category permissions: I don't understand this at all. It seems like it ought to do what I want, but the checkboxes I see just don't make any sense.

admin/content/configure/content types: This page lets you configure a lot of attributes of content types. I see on here three boxes of permissions settings, "Default View Permissions", "Default Edit Permissions" and "Permissions for permissions". Note there is not a "default create permissions". These may have come from the node_privacy_by_role module.

The other day I posted the question,
http://drupal.org/node/35672
after a couple of days of work, and adding some things. I have a very elegent and workable solution. You can check out www.matthewedmunds.com/aurora for a working example. In order to get the result, I first modified my template (using xtemplate, hope to switch to phptemplate soon), adding a unique id to the content div of the block, mine being content-module-delta, to make sure that nothing had the same id tag. Once each block had its own content ID, that allowed for a div toggle of just the content of the block, leaving the title.

For the simplest solution, you can then take the nice css/javascript code provided on drupal art:
http://www.drupalart.org/togglediv

Which is what got me started. However, once realizing the power that can be had, I dreamed of an icon that could sit in the corner of the block title, and allow for the toggle, changing the image related to the state that div was in. Also needed was the ability to remember the state of a collapsed, or open block from page to page, while a user is navigating through the site. I found that after a little googling, and drupal searching to see if anyone else has ventured here before. I was told the logintobbogin module had a similar setup, but it didnt provide what I wanted from a simple, across the board implentation, not hacking every other mod I have.

I have a working drupal site however when I setup the forum (enable forum plugin) and define some
forums, I can not get drupal to allow content to be created in one of these forums.

For example, when creating forum content here I get a choice of the forum to post into, however
in my site I dont get this choice.

Can someone help me with this ?

Rgs, James.

I'm trying to create a page alias with a dynamic variable.

For instance, if i set up a page alias for a video page (example.com/video) how can i pass it a variable for which video to play? something like example.com/video/video_to_play (which i couldnt get to work)