I'm a complete COMPLETE noob at Drupal.
I've been handed a large very customized Drupal 7 site after our admin quit. I have tons of WP experience, but zilch in Drupal.
I've been asked to edit a page that exists at:
http://my.drupalsite.com/[page]
The page functions only to redirect to:
http://my.othersite.com/
But, I need to change part of the way it redirects. Normally (as in, the one other time I did it) to edit a Drupal page, I just go to the page logged in as an admin and click "edit". Since this is a redirect page, I can't really do this. The /admin/content section has 83 pages of 25 items each with no way for me to search on anything and no way to tell from what the guy called the page as to what page actually does this redirect. I'll be a monkey's uncle if I'm going to click on every darn one of them and then click the "URL path settings" tab at the bottom to see which one of these suckers is the page I'm after.
Surely this is simple for even a typical Drupal novice... like I said though, complete noob.
Any ideas? Thanks!
There are a few modules that can handle redirection or even simple editing of a path.
You can look at pathauto
https://drupal.org/project/pathauto
On that page you should find other recommendations such as the Global Redirect & Redirect modules. I'm pretty sure some of these modules will simplify your task. You should be able to take an existing path and redirect it to wherever you wish, without having to dig in each URL alias on the node edit page.
It's always difficult to give specific advice without knowing more, but , for instance, Pathauto can help you change the path of a specific content type to a specific pattern. That can come very handy if you need to change a bunch of pages with a similar structure.
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Somehow my DNN has a broken path a particular url serves pages, but doesn't work for delete or advanced options (delivers a 404 error)
The taburls table has no entries for this tab.
If I change the url through the tabs table then I'm able to delete the page without issue.
I tried accessing the page options via tabid, but the tabid gets converted to the friendly name and then 404s.
I tried turning off friendly urls in my web.config but I may have done it wrong since the entire site would not load (yellowscreen of death)
I'm wondering where DNN is storing this path that is breaking the advanced options of whatever page is at the path.
How do I fix this url so it displays page options and lets me delete pages?
First thing I would try is going to the Admin/Page Management screen, can you make the changes you need to via that interface? If so, after making the changes, are you able to access the page and all the features/options correctly?
If that doesn't work, check the TabPath column in the TABS table to see if there are any bad paths in there for specific pages that you are having problems with.
We have our own custom DotNetNuke 7 skin based on Bootstrap 3. It includes a navbar in which I want to have a navbar-brand that links to the home page.
Is it possible to generate a link to the portal home page inside a skin?
On the documentation page I found a link to the Skin Objects Guide (pdf) suggesting [Portal:url], which I tried like this:
Home
Not surprisingly this doesn't work (the pdf is from 2009). The other links from the wiki are either dead or useless.
I've also tried looking through the "Gravity" and "Aphelia" skins that come with DotNetNuke, but nowhere do the ascx files seem to link to the portal home page.
Obviously I've also tried GoogleFu in various forms, e.g. "DotNetNuke skin create link to home page", but this leads nowhere.
Anyone know how to do this? Or much preferred even: where I could've found this- and related info? Or am I doomed to dive into the source code of DNN?
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this:
Home
NavigateUrl is your goto method to handle referencing another part of your portal. It goes through url rewriting so it will be consistent with the rest of your urls.
There a plenty of signature overloads for this function, where you can specify keys, controlkey, settings, etc. Have a look at the DotNetNuke.Common.Globals class for more info.
Note that if you use the abovementioned version, you'll need to have a "Home" page set for your portal under admin > site settings.
In DNN 7 it would be best to do this:
<%=DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.NavigateURL(PortalController.Instance.GetCurrentPortalSettings().HomeTabId) %>
Note the extra Instance. in there. The variant PortalController.GetCurrentPortalSettings() is obsolete.
Is there a decent way in DNN 7 to modify the navigation block at the top? I am completely lost.
I am using the "Awesome Cycles" content as a template for a class project. All I am trying to do is change out the word "us" in the navigation at the top for the word "me".
I'm sure there must be an easy way to do it, but I don't think I "speak the language" well enough to google this. I have been literally searching for three days, and I know I'm going to feel stupid once someone points it out but... Oh well.
Thanks in advance!
You are correct that you can simple change the Page Name in the page settings to control what displays in the Navigation. But be aware that changing a page name also changes the URL of that page.
Check out this video for how to avoid bad URLs after changing pages
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Video-Library/Viewer/Video/213/View/Details/Renaming-a-Page-in-DotNetNuke.aspx
tl;dr - create a new page, with the old name, make it hidden (not in the menu), and have it redirect to the new page.
I've tried to search for this both on Google and StackOverFlow, but simply can't find what I'm looking for, it might be that it's simply not possible, but thought I would ask anyway.
I'm looking for a way to make a file redirect the user to another page, the user would download the file by clicking on a button.
It's for a Prestashop downloadable product, I'm trying to redirect the user to another part of our site (which isn't directly visible) to be able to view magazines, etc. in a viewer.
Now Prestashop is natively set up to download the file, which is what we don't want, hence the use of the viewer, but there is no way to simply provide a link to send the user to instead of a physical file, like a PDF or something. I can't really modify the button as its generated by Prestashop, and if I add a PDF file with the link in there it defeats te purpose as I dont want people having the link in a document (I know they can find it from their history and so on). Hence I thought it would be easier to do it with a document that redirects if possible.
So in short, is it possible to make a file that would send people to a certain web page once they open/download this file on/to their computer?
And if yes, how would one go about it?
Can you make the user download an HTML file? If so, you can use "meta refresh" to redirect the user to your private page.
This does mean the unprotected link will be visible in downloaded HTML file - perhaps you can obfuscate this with JavaScript to make it a little more difficult for users to find your protected URL.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H76
I'm trying to find the best way to create a user friendly admin menu for my client on the site I am building. So far I have been able to set access rights to the various types of content which I would like the client to edit, however this has some drawbacks in that I can't set provide access to individual blocks and the content overview page is wayy too confusing for the client.
Instead I would like to provide a structure like the following:
Admin Menu
Services
Manage
Edit page header block
Developments
Manage
Edit page header block
Private commissions
Manage
Edit page header block
Each Manage option would take the client to a page like the Content overview page in the standard admin but it would automatically filter the results to include only the relevant content type e.g. the Manage option for developments page would show the user a list of the current developments and an option to Add a new one.
The Edit page header block options would take the user to the edit page for the relevant page header block.
Is this possible and if so how?
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Have you checked out the Quickbar module?
Your description might be a little hard to understand what you're trying to accomplish, but if I get it right, you're trying to do a very custom "view" of the content pages. If you have to code it, then it's gonna take a long time.