Month: July 2008

Drupal multisite – symlinking, a key step

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Setting up a multisite system is very easy with Drupal and is well documented both in the settings.php file and in the multi-site section of the handbook on Drupal.org. However there is one step that is usually left out of the instructions or mentioned only in passing, and it requires SSH access. You must create a symlink from the folders your multi-sites will be accessed at to the actual folder that the Drupal core files reside in.

So if you will have several sites like:

http://yoursite.com/site1 (the core files are located here)
and you want a second and third site to be accessed at

http://yoursite.com/site2
and
http://yoursite.com/site3

then you must create symlinks from site2 and site3 that point to site1.

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GooberGuide to Adobe Captivate

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I got a chance to take a look at a new Captivate eBook the other day, “GooberGuides – Captivate Tips & Tricks,” and I really wish I’d had this months ago. Captivate Tips and Tricks is a compendium of all the time-saving answers the other books never tell you. For example the tip on how to use wildcard text in text entry boxes would have been well worth the modest price of the ebook when I ran into that problem on a recent project.

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The chapter on preventing project corruption is brief but extremely useful. If you’ve worked with Captivate for a while, you’ve probably corrupted a project. The tips in this chapter should be on the opening splash screen when you first launch Captivate.

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dotProject Recipe: Add journal entries from the project view page

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NOTE (07-02-08): The modified Journal module has now been updated to work with v. 2.x of dotProject.

J. Christopher Pereira created a journal module which is quite handy: it lets you add notes to projects – any type of note, without creating a task.

The module is very useful, but a coworker requested that we modify it so you could add a journal note without ever leaving the project view page. Instead of a new window opening to enter the journal note, you simply enter the note into a text box that is always visible on the project view page.

You just enter text in the new text field, hit “save”…

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