Post installation

I'm new at this, of course...

I am trying to set up a series of separate websites that are all hosted on the same system and are related to one another in what amounts to a hierarchical structure. The obvious way to do this is to set up a separate instance of Drupal for each site and then have those sites provide feeds to one another so that events and such can be coordinated.

That seems a heavyweight solution, particularly since there will be a good deal of cross-pollenation and, therefore, duplicate content.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish: Consider a University setting. At the top of the hierarchy would be a University-wide page with its own content. Below that you have departments, and below those you'd have pages for individual classes.

Each of these many sites would have their own events calendars, news, forums, etc. In most ways they'd be separate but a University-wide event might be important enough that it would be pushed down the hierarchy to the departmental or even class calendars. Likewise, the University site may want to list the top stories from the departments.

Since all of the shared information is on the same server it seems wasteful to have separate Drupal instances for each. If that is the best way to do it, however, how do you go about controlling which news items and events you do and don't feed to other sites?

I imagine there's a lot here that's just my own lack of knowledge. Happy to be set straight.

I'm new at this, of course...

I am trying to set up a series of separate websites that are all hosted on the same system and are related to one another in what amounts to a hierarchical structure. The obvious way to do this is to set up a separate instance of Drupal for each site and then have those sites provide feeds to one another so that events and such can be coordinated.

That seems a heavyweight solution, particularly since there will be a good deal of cross-pollenation and, therefore, duplicate content.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish: Consider a University setting. At the top of the hierarchy would be a University-wide page with its own content. Below that you have departments, and below those you'd have pages for individual classes.

Each of these many sites would have their own events calendars, news, forums, etc. In most ways they'd be separate but a University-wide event might be important enough that it would be pushed down the hierarchy to the departmental or even class calendars. Likewise, the University site may want to list the top stories from the departments.

Since all of the shared information is on the same server it seems wasteful to have separate Drupal instances for each. If that is the best way to do it, however, how do you go about controlling which news items and events you do and don't feed to other sites?

I imagine there's a lot here that's just my own lack of knowledge. Happy to be set straight.

Does someone have a nice png for each of these node types:
a story, weblink, event, and discussion?
Note that I'm not looking for an icon for each taxonomy term (as node_image.module
does).
I'm not looking for software either, actually.
I'm just checking to see if someone in the drupal world has already donated some,
before i go searching for clip art.....

All,

This is really for the archives, but maybe it will help someone here too. If you use htmlarea and Mozilla/Firefox/whatever, you may have noticed that when you try to Control-C Copy or Control-V Paste, you get a Javascript Security Error dialog box. Clicking OK in this dialog brings you to a Mozilla.org page that tells you to create a user.js file and add some lines to it. Doing so produces NO CHANGE.

Well, after some research and playing around, I can report on a workaround and a solution.

Some time ago I asked if anybody knew how to do this and got some expression of interest in having it done but no answer as to how to do it. Here is a very quick qnd dirty hack which will be ok for my site, but I would like to try to improve it so that it can be made more generic.


1) Go to the book.module


2) Locate the function book_toc_recurse


3) Immediately after the function statement, put this:

Hello

I've tried to post some code with bbcode filter tag [code] but it has been filtered by html filter too it seems. So now I have no code displayed.

Is it bug or some mess with filters?

Thanks