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Fix Your Hosed Admin Menu

Tom — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:48:09 +0000

Here’s a quick fix. We have a site that has been through a number of migrations, moves and upgrades. We use the Admin module that provide a nice UI for site administration. Somewhere along the way, the admin menu items got completely hosed.

Admin menu completely hosed.

Note that we have no “Content” menu in administration. Also, notice that in the screenshot, we are in the Configuration menu but only have a single configuration item. That certainly doesn’t look right.

So after a bit of Googling we first tried truncating the cache_menu table without success. Finally we decided to try a simple thought. We disabled the Admin menu. Then we re-enabled the Admin menu and Voila, our admin menus have been fixed. Go Figure.

Admin menu all fixed.

Just goes to show that sometimes the basic troubleshooting steps can fix something that looks worse than it really is.

Taming Drupal Permissions and Unpublished Nodes

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:00:10 +0000

Back in May, I wrote about the great work of Brad (beeradb) from the Aten Design Group. Brad helped figure out how to allow users with appropriate roles to view unpublished nodes without using the overkill of “administer nodes” permission which includes all content types.

Brad blogs about this solution on the Aten Design Group blog.

The next logical step was a few other admin override options to nodes. Brad once again shares this information with the Drupal community on their blog.

All of this to say that Drupal really needs to break out these permissions more such that distributed management of content types by various backend staff/business units independently. This should all be done without grating staff rights to do things we don’t want them to do (i.e. “administer nodes” permission).

Thanks to Brad and Aten Design Group for the help.

Session: SimpleTest – Because clicking on forms is for suckers

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:36:21 +0000

another from Drupalcon Boston…

SimpleTest: Because clicking on forms is for suckers
Session Discussion (Courtesy of Lullabot)

EMField Gets Tuduo Support as Drupalcon Boston

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:54:10 +0000

Video on YouTube of Aaron Winborn adding Tuduo support to EMField in Drupal while sitting in the Drupal in China Session.

Drupal 6 Released. Quick Links

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:23:59 +0000

First, a big round of thanks and applause for the scores of folks who played a part in making Drupal 6 a reality and such an improvement to the design, architecture and usability.

Quick Reference Links

Drupal 6 Official Release Announcement
Drupal 6 Upgrade Instructions
Drupal 6 Upgrade Video Tutorial
Drupal 6 New Installation Instructions
Drupal 6 New Installation Video Tutorial

Converting Modules

One of the best additions is the Coder module. This little guy addresses primarily three areas of interest.

Drupal Coding Standards
Module conversion recommendation
Security/Performance

I have got to say it sure is nice to have a too that quickly can point a maintainer or contributor at key areas to look at for migrating a module to the next release. Really, the lack of 5.x modules available for 6.x is what will keep folks from upgrading existing sites straight away.

I am of the opinion that with this Coder module and a little elbow grease we can help users of Drupal to more quickly adopt 6.x once we get more modules ready for the upgrade.