Wow, this was a 4 hour joyride today. I wanted to setup galleria today, which is this awesome slideshow/gallery script that has a drupal module. I got views slideshow working in a matter of minutes but as soon as I installed galleria and changed my slideshow type to that it dissapeared off the main page.. The thumbs were coming up fine in the preview area but on the main page where it was to be displayed nothing was showing up, no errors no nothing? 4 hours later I have the solution and the frustrating thing is that I tried it, kind of 2 hours ago but didn’t quite do it right.
Anyways, the main issue with this is with jquery. You see drupal 6 ships with jquery 1.2.6 and you need 1.3 or higher. ”That’s what the jquery update module is for” you are no doubt saying to yourself, well that’s what I thought and it turns out we were both wrong on this one.. Hopefully you aren’t running nivo or anythign else that requires jquery update because you are going to have to disable and delete that module. Secondly you need to go grab jquery 1.3.2 from here: http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.js and you need to rename it to jquery.js and stick it in drupal’s misc directory. To be clear: You need to unisntall the jquery update module or else this will not work.. Don’t make the mistake I did and just copy 1.3.2 over and expect something to happen because it won’t
So this alone gave me more results than anything else, unfortunately those results were error messages about missing height and width attributes in the classic themes .css file. At first it was with the .galleria-stage section missing a height so I had to change it to this:
.galleria-stage {
position: absolute;
height: 300px;
top: 10px;
bottom: 60px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
overflow:hidden;
}
After that was put in then it started bitching about .galleria missing height and width variables so I changed them to this:
.galleria-container {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
background: #000;
width: 400px;
height: 300px;
}
Much to my complete amazement, after this was done the bloody thing started to work.. Couldn't believe my eyes so hopefully this helps some people out
Checking into that domain’s error logs popped up a bunch of this:
Drupal myself and I – Chapter 7: Obvious but Overlooked
Jul 1
Posted by admin in Technology | No Comments
The first Obvious yet overlooked thing I just got around to setting up with a module called ‘Comment Notify’
Comment notify is a great little module that I didn’t even think about over the past week and a half of drupal setup but it is such a common sense one that I wonder how it was overlooked. Especially when considering the way the forum’s are setup. This module was actually quick and painless to setup. You just head over to http://drupal.org/project/comment_notify download it, install it and then the configuration is pretty straight forward if you follow the directions. But without your users will not be able to subscribe to forum threads and with it everyone can be auto-subscribed to their own comments which is great to keep the team communication going full bore. Something that is so important when you are organizing people around the world
The second Obvious but Overlooked aspect of my setup was the fact that as an admin my view is going to be different than my teams view. For some things this is a no brainer like admin menu’s and configuration screens, however when I am outside of the administration area of Drupal I just assumed that everyone would be seeing what I am seeing. Not so much. After writing a big long instructional article on cataloging submissions and organising assets I had one of my team members inform me that half of the links and buttons I referenced in the article didn’t exist for him. So I created a quick dummy account, granted it the same perms as the other users and lo’ and behold I had 1/2 of the menu’s than with my admin account. I just had to go through the roles and permissions setup for the users and grant them all access to the modules that they needed to use but definitely something to check after you spend a week going nuts and setting up a flurry of features. Double chck that your users have access to them
Tags: access, admin, comment notify, drupal, email, notification, obvious, overlooked, roles, users