Web Managers/Content Editors

Some of my customers have requested the ability to edit help text on node fields. Of course by default, giving them that ability means giving them the ability to add and edit fields themselves, which isn't something non-developers should always have. Before we dive into a solution for ourselves, I thought I'd see if anyone else has similar needs. Then we can put what we learn into writing a module or even submitting patches to core, as the case requires. So what are your thoughts? Do you have a need for web managers and content editors to edit the help text in the CMS interface? What solutions have you tried? What does the community need? Thanks for your input!

Hi everyone,

My company (Metal Toad Media) is making time available for me to work on short screencast tutorials for various audiences. You can see examples on our YouTube page. I thought I'd check in and see if anyone has any burning topics that you would like to see covered. The goal is to be short and informative, so something that could be covered in 5-10 minutes.

I have a form that a user will fill out, but they may need to return to the same form to update or add data. I have created a form with Drupal's own fields and a custom form that I coded in PHP. I prefer to use my custom form because of the way it is formatted, but if needed I can use Drupal's. I want to populate the form when the user enters the correct password. Can I use msqli in PHP or do I have to use Drupal's methods? If so, how do I get the data from the DB with Drupal?

I've been thinking a lot about what the major hurdles are to learn Drupal. One obstacle I've encountered is even learning how to ask questions effectively in the forums and how to interact with the community. Someone posted this article How to Ask Questions from Hackers and it really helped me understand how community supported help systems work and what info I should include in my questions. However, the tone in that article is a little harsh and I think we could make a friendlier version that's more Drupal Community specific.

Hi everyone

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but it's getting to be desperate measures to try and get rid of this warning message that I've had on my sites since January :-(

I've posted it as an issue over on cck issues:
http://drupal.org/node/1415342

But nobody has so far replied.

The message is:

Call to undefined function _content_is_empty() in .../sites/all/modules/cck/content.module on line 1380

I've been trying to solve this and it looks like CCK version 6.x-3.x-dev is also having people report the same issue - http://drupal.org/node/541768

Am a drupal newbie. I just completed a drupal installation on my domain but when I try to assess the Admin panel I get this message "Access Denied". Please Help. What do I Do to resolve this.

I just read an intriguing article for Drupal content managers and web editors:
3 Drupal Modules to Show Your Content Managers You Love Them

It introduces three modules by Treehouse Agency co-sponsored by energy.gov and available to the Drupal community. They all sound well worth investigating to me. And worth thanking Treehouse Agency for their contributions to the community.

Check it out. and let me know what you think...

Drupal 7 has a couple of similar modules in the workflow space. I'm starting this thread to hold discussion around collaboration among some of those modules.