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In any business, the relationship between clients and the service provider is subjected to the stress of disputes often. Businesses that deliver true value to their clients over a sustained period of time have mechanisms to resolve these disputes. Often they rely on certain thumb rules also. One such thumb rule is the adage 'Customer is the king.' At Zyxware, we believe that it is a thumb rule that can, in contexts of disputes, lead to sub-optimal results for the relationship and the parties involved from the point of view of effectiveness and more importantly fairness.
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Google drawing is a tool specifically designed to make image, drawing, editing and sharing easy. With this tool, you will be able to create drawings or upload drawings and edit them or let other people edit your drawing. You can even chat, comment or share views with multiple people who are editing your drawings. So in short multiple people can at a time work on a single document to make things easy. In the following article I will be giving you some basic introduction into the world of google drawing. How to Create google drawing?
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As you have configured the apt-cacher-ng server, Now you have to change the directory where the packages will be downloaded. This is to ensure that you will provide a directory which has large space to store files or packages. To change the current directory to a new directory you have to the following steps. To change the path you have to edit the following configuration file
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This article will be explaining how to create custom block and how to add the custom block in to quick tabs, programmatically. If you want to display the block inside a node you can refer our artilce How to print a block inside a node on a Drupal 6 website. First lets create a custom block using hook_block. In this block what I want to display is when we provide a url, need to display corresponding alexa graph for the particular site.
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One of our Drupal clients requested us for a feature in a mobile version of their Drupal website in which, a user accessing the mobile version of their website, should be able to automatically initiate a call on clicking the telephone number appearing in the website. If you want to know "How to start a call when a user clicks on a number in a mobile version of a Drupal website, then continue reading.
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In Drupal, while viewing a content type it will display the content type view with a comment form. If we want to remove the comment form from the view node page we can disable/unset it using hook_node_view function. But what we have to do if we want the comment form in a separate tab. There is a module called Talk. This module removes the comment form from a node view page and display it on a separate tab.
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Your success as a Software Tester is dependent on how well you test the applications. You can improve your testing performance by following these basic guidelines. These guidelines are not ultimate but advance your testing skill and career. Improve your overall quality by learning and implementing proper process that fits your organizational needs.
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In a recent project, one of the client requirements was to remove the link of the cart-image which appears in shopping cart page. In drupal, when a node is added to cart, it will be automatically linked to the corresponding node page. He wanted to hide it because, we were not using the default node page for the products. If you want to know, how we removed the link from the cart-image, you may follow the stepss below.
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On certain servers, there are chances of our IP addresses getting blocked when we accidentally enter the wrong password multiple times or when we unintentionally try to ssh via the wrong port multiple times. The IP will be blocked for a certain period of time. If you have faced the same issue then read on to know how to block blacklisted IP addresses on a WHM based GNU/Linux server.
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One of the most important aspects of a Drupal application is obviously its interface which is all what an end user gets to see. These Web Design issues/bugs negatively affect the final look and feel of the end product. Here are some of the most common design issues to be avoided by a Drupal tester.
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In a recent project, I had to make use of pagers in two views. As per the requirement, I had to display different numbers of contents per page for both views. For the first view, I had to display 2 items per page and for the second one(search-results view) 10 per page.The problem I faced was, Eventhough if I had less than 10 search results, the page displayed the pager-links as per the contents of the first view. ie, both the views showed same number of pagers, which was wrong. If you want to know, how I fixed this, please read on.
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Views Bulk Operation module is helpful in the cases where we need to perform a particular operation for more than one row in a view. Some of the operations includes deleting multiple contents, publishing/un-publishing contents, change the author of the content, send email etc (Refer the image below). These are the default operations available with the module. Now, what if you need some of your operation to be performed other than this? That too is possible. You may read on if you want to know how it can be done.
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You may be familiar with the theme information link in views. The theme information link in view tells us which files are to be modified, to theme the view. You could get more information regarding the view from, http://viewshelp.doc.logrus.com/help/views/analyze-theme. This is the case where we have a theme with us. But what if you don't have a theme and you still want to theme the view's result? Well, read on if you want to find out how to theme a view by adding a template file inside your custom module.
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One of our client's site, which runs on Drupal 7 allows users to create envelopes based on the custom values like name, address etc submitted by the user through that Drupal website. The requirement was to load this envelope in ckeditor so that end user can edit the default values given as per their wish. So we had to load the form field with the default values given in template. We used jQuery to do this. If you are looking to know how to load a drupal 7 form field with default values from CKEDITOR body content, then read on.
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Most of us know how to send an e-mail with attachment. But do you know how you can do this using drupal 7? Not sure, then read on. In this article, I am going to address 2 isssues. Sending an e-mail with an attachment. Sending an e-mail with multiple attachments. Sending an e-mail in Drupal 7 with an attachment The steps to be followed are: Step 1: Install and enable the modules MIME mail and Mail system. Step 2: Define hook_mail() in your custom module. The synatx is as follows:
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Why do we use CK-Editor? Well, obviously to create customizable contents, right? If you are creating a page, you can change the heading style, color, font-size, font-style etc with the help of CK-Editor. Well,I don't know if you could create your custom color or font-size, but changing default fonts of ckeditor is definitely possible. For that you may follow the below steps: Step 1 : Create a css that contains the path to the fonts.
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Whenever you need to create a contact/feedback form in drupal, everyone will be thinking of using "Webform" module. Using webforms to do so, is a good choice. Normally, the forms created using webform module are displayed as pages. There may be certain situations, where you need to display these as "blocks". If you need to know how to display webform as a block, read on. If you have a webform with you, that you have already created, by adding the required fields, then follow the below steps:
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