Drupal documentation

Documenting procedures on using Drupal to create the new ERI website

Creating News Items and a News List

• Drupal does not have existing news content type
• Need a content type for Date and PI

• Some tutorials
  • http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/06/how-to-create-news-items-and-a-news-list-in-drupal/
  • http://www.brightwebsitedesign.com/drupal-views-cck-quicktabs

• use View to format blocks and pages

Panel Issues

• inserted images did not show up
  • fix - need to select "Full Html" rather than "Filtered Html" in "Input Format"

custom fields of content type issue

• the custom fields of a content type did not show up when I tried to create a new content of this content type
  • fix - need to enable permissions of these fields in the User Management-Permissions