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Customizing Drupal - Part 5 comments

For some reason the Drupal part 5 tutorial doesn't have an add comment field enabled for it. Just thought I would point out a few things I stumbled over in this one.
 
(BTW - as a user am I using the FCKeditor or something from your site to enter this text, or is it using something from my own install? The editor screen doesn't display the return character accurately. A single return puts an extra half line between text, although it displays after submission as a regular single return. Isn't FCK supposed to be WYSIWYG?)
 
For the purposes of this tutorial, please make sure that you have the CCK and Views module installed.
The first problem I had in the tutorial was that I had CCK installed, but not enabled. After enabling CCK 'content' and a few other CCK sub-modules, I still couldn't follow all of the steps until the 'Option Widgets' one was enabled.
 
The "free tagging" part was a bit frustrating to work through. (The tab on the 'administer' > 'Content management' > 'Categories' page is 'Add vocabulary' not 'Add category', unless I'm looking at the wrong thing...) The tutorial reads:
Now pick which content type will have this attribute, and then for our needs, lets disable hierarchy, allow multiple, and require a user to put SOMEthing in the field. Then click submit.
You don't mention to check the 'Free tagging' box, although looking back I could see how it's implied. It also took me some experimenting to figure out how to enter multiple tags in the topic field, although I guess that's just a matter of mentioning in the Help text to use comma seperated values to enter them. This is more about design choices, but the notion of "free" tagging being a required field to submit the article seems a bit... well, is this some subtle form of social commentary or something? ;-)
 
I hope this is more constructive than it is annoying...

Thanks for the feedback Don.

Thanks for the feedback Don. I will make the corrections ASAP.
Chad