Tips and Tricks

A very useful module in D6 days called Admin Role. It attempts to convert the concept of the superuser (uid = 1) to a role; thereby allowing multiple users to be the superuser. Obviously a concept that should be in Drupal core.

Quick discovery I made last night.. might save some hair pulling:

In the past I have added tabs using panels (or views) to std node tabs or user tabs… I simply would set their path's to something like node/%node/tab1 or user/$user/tab1

The University of PEI (subcontracted from Dave Kisly) required a complex multipaged user registration form for their CAUBO project.

I seem to vaguely recall the days of D5 when altering fields seemed much simpler.. hmmm. Anyway, needed to alter a simple label of a field today and took far longer than it should have; so thought I would post here.

I was debugging a Views block the other day and couldn't figure out why it wasn't hitting my block tpl. Pretty scary why it wasn't..

Site development regularly extends beyond the launch of the site and beyond the point where the live site has real user accounts set up.