Automatic Profile Titles

Submitted by ifoundyou on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 09:58
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I am attempting to read your book and understand what it says. I am not very smart. I am findng what you are saying to difficult to understand. In 4.2 of yur book it took me forever to figure out that I most download specific modules to make this work. It would be nice if you could say something like You will need to download the following modules and list them. In the last chapter I just downloaded a whole bunch of stuff. It was not till the end of the page I read that I needed to download more modules.

Where you write "admin/content/ node type" is this a URL? Am I suppose to type this into the browser?

You continue to write "Empty the body type in submission form settings we will not be needing a body." Can you tell me what this means and where this is so that I can perform this action.

You write use automatic generation with the pattern" but what and where is that and how do I do that? I hope you do not find me rude in asking this questions or being too much of critic but I really would like to make this work.

Best Regards, Charles Pisano

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1. Hi, Whenever I type: "at

Submitted by dorien on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 12:20.

Hi,

Whenever I type: "at /admin/content", this means that you should add this to your base url and indeed type it in your browser to visit the page. So it would become http://drupalfun.com/admin/content for instance.

It was not till the end of the page I read that I needed to download more modules. The modules that you need to download are always mentioned next to the lists and at the end of each chapter.

Empty the body type in submission form settings we will not be needing a body
-> on the Profile content type edit (or creation) page, we can find "submission form settings", if you expand this menu, you will see something like field body label, a text box with filled in: "body". Just empty this field, this will prevent a body field from being attached to the content. We will be using our own cck fields a bit later on (these can be customised a lot more than body).

You also refer to "automatic generation with the pattern". This also comes up on the same page as mentioned above (Profile content type edit). If the Automatic Node Titles is turned on, this field appears and allows you to automatically create a title for the profiles. This title is going to be the same as the username.

Let me know if there is something else.

Drupal can be quit challenging at times!

2. never mind

Submitted by blue2blue on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 18:35.

I somehow missed installing the Auto Nodetitle module.

Since I'm used to FAILs rather than graceful degradation (I'm a coder type), it took me a second to realize that I'd omitted something.

In your next edition, it might be worthwhile to introduce the module download list before they're needed in the chapter...

3. Automatic Titles

Submitted by spudette77 on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:11.

I am also having a lot of issues with automatic titles. I have installed the module and it is activated however, I can't seem to make the pattern work. The title comes up as:

Spudster’s photo album

Any ideas?

4. What did you type in as

Submitted by dorien on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 12:31.

What did you type in as pattern?

5. Pattern

Submitted by spudette77 on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 04:42.

I typed in [author-name-raw]'s photo album.

Then I thought that maybe the apostrophe is being read as the actual code for the apostrophe so I removed that and had [author-name-raw]s photo album. That didn't work so I took out the /s/ from the end. That still didn't work so I took out the raw as well so it looked like [author-name] photo album. Still didn't work so I took out the pattern entirely and cleared the cache, yet the same thing came up. Hence, I could only conclude that the pattern was not registering at all.

I have Fckeditor still working in the pattern box, so I typed the pattern with rich text on, and I also tried it with it off... yet nothing seems to have worked!

6. Sorry just to clear that up

Submitted by spudette77 on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 04:51.

I can see from my post that the html code was interpreted and turned the read out into a proper apostrophe to read 'Spudster's Photo Album'. If my page actually showed the apostrophe it would be wonderful!!!

It actually shows the html code for the apostrophe which I can't seem to write in here without it being rendered as an apostrophe!!

Cheers,

7. Solved!

Submitted by spudette77 on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 11:44.

The Page titles module was causing this issue for me. As it turns out, while I can set Auto-titles, I also need to set another title separately for SEO Page titles module. Once I did this, the pattern worked (although not the /'s/ part, but I can live with that).

Cheers,