Solving technology problems, one at a time
A customer’s course was crashing Internet Explorer when a popup window script executed. It turns out that the name of the new window contained a space. This didn’t bother Safari or Firefox, but Internet Explorer
Continue readingAs you add modules to Drupal, the “Edit” screen of each node can start piling up a lot of optional filters and settings that you can apply to the node. These include comment settings, input filters, image pickers and browsers, authoring settings, etc. The general term for all these added features on the node edit screen is “fieldsets.”
Most of them are collapsed when you first open the screen, which makes it easy to scroll down to the “submit” button or the lower fieldsets. However some modules set themselves to be open by default. This can be a problem if you have to edit a lot of nodes – it causes a lot of extra scrolling and is visually confusing.
We found that some of our users did not know how to maximize windows (or even that it was possible!), and so never saw the navigation bar and buttons on the bottom of a Captivate-based course they had to take.
The customer who designed the course asked that we add instructions on maximizing the window, but I thought that it would make more sense just to make the window maximize itself.
It’s been a while since I used window sizing functions, so I went hunting for a script that works across all browsers.
After trying several, I found that some “auto-maximize window” scripts don’t even work every time on ANY browser. The one that worked best on every browser I tested it on is available free from Dynamic Drive, here.
Continue readingI have about 5 email accounts, and use Mail.app to manage them. Recently I started seeing this obnoxious and cryptic message when trying to send from anything but my att.yahoo. account.
The server response was: From: address not verified; see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/sendfrom-07.html
Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit Mail or change your network settings
My G5 at the office is running Tiger, and is on a Windows network. I had several printers set up to use, but one day they all simply disappeared from my print dialogs!
When I tried to add them again, the error “server-error-service-unavailable” would come up.
I found a solution here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107054
After doing a user import via csv into a new Drupal site, some new users could no longer register. When I attempted to create the users manually, I got this error: user error: Duplicate entry
Continue readingCorporate mail servers often used SSL certificates, and sometimes these certificates expire. At that point you may start getting “Certificate couldn’t be read” errors in Apple’s Mail.app.
According to Apple, permanently accepting a self-signed SSL certificate may fix the problem.
If Safari gives you the following error “Client certificate rejected” and shows you a white page, try this. Open Keychain Access, find the expired certificate and delete it. There may be two certificates with the
Continue readingWe use Captivate 3 quizzes sometimes with our Docent 6.5 LMS. Usually the quizzes have multiple parts or “SCOs” but occasionally we build one that has only one part.
Sometimes people launch a quiz but need to quit before they are done taking it, and in such cases we would prefer it be marked “incomplete” and allow them another chance to take the quiz. Usually we would also prefer any failed quiz to be allowed to be retaken.
But, by default, Captivate sees any failure to reach the mastery score as completions.
There is an easy fix,
suggested by Franck Buland on the Adobe Captivate forums
– simply modify the [project].htm file at lines 95, 96, 97.
Continue readingWhen I installed a new version of Drupal on one of my sites, an error showed up on the administration page:
The status page reports:
