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Drupal Clinic - ArrayShift - Watcher

Jay and Ryanne have posted and, again recently asked, about notifications for their ArrayShift-based site at http://www.homesteadingwtf.com

These are our notes for tonight's Drupal Clinic

Here's a comparison chart:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/15928

and the obligatory link to management's view on the topic:

http://buytaert.net/comment-notifications-via-email

We're going to use the watcher contributed module because (1) we have some experience with it (2) support for guest (anon) users and (3) it was already installed on my multi-site :)

You'll need to download:

Copy to your server

Activate from /admin/build/modules (note that you must already have 'token' module active).

Grant permissions (note we have a moderator role, in addition to the two default roles of anon and auth users).

and under a new version with predefined roles:

Oops! Here is what happens using garland theme:

This can be fixed by creating a new subtheme (need instructions?) and adding the following CSS:

.content .watcher_node { clear: both; }

And it did not even show up on the as_theme ( http://drupal.org/project/as_theme). We will have to investigate that. I've seen this kind of thing before in another theme: widgets not showing up on node pages. Perhaps there is something common that folks should be doing when overriding node.tpl.php

As is often the case with tools like Drupal, seemingly simple things can turn into challenges. More coming soon...