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A few Drupal 7 users while trying to rewrite the output of a field as a link in a View found out that a space gets added before the file name in the URL. If you are facing the same scenario while using Drupal Views in your Drupal 7 website the read on to know the solution.

A few Drupal users reported that after they installed the Drupal Default Content module in their Drupal website the module lists on their Drupal installation stopped loading followed by the home page failing to load. Turning on detailed error reporting in index.php displayed a "Call to undefined function context_get_plugin() in modules/defaultcontent/defaultcontent.module" error and a "Fatal error: Class 'context_condition' not found in profiles/openenterprise/modules/defaultcontent/plugins/defaultcontent_condition.inc on line 3" error message. The second one was in the modules list page. Disabling the Drupal Default Content module eliminated the problem. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal website then proceed to see the solution.

If you are getting a "You do not have any administrative items" error message in your Drupal site with the Rules module installed then continue reading to know the solution for removing the error message.

There maybe a scenario in your Drupal website when you would like to create a Rule based Action when a user views a page/url that is not a node. If you want to know how to trigger a Rule when a user views a non-node page in your Drupal website then you need to know the Event for triggering the Action. Read on to find out more.

Many Drupal users have reported that after they had successfully installed the Google Analytics module on their website, the Google Analytics admin page reported a "Tracking code not detected" error. The status reports page of Google Analytics also indicated a "Tracking Not Installed" error. If you are facing the same situation with the Google Analytics module in your Drupal site then read on.

Many Drupal users have requested for a method to increment a field using rules in their Drupal site. If you are looking for a way to increment a field value using rules in your Drupal site then read on.

Many Drupal users have asked the question whether CKEditor was free to use in Drupal and whether there was any licensing issues in using it before installing it in their Drupal sites. If you have any such questions regarding the installation of CKEditor in Drupal then read on.

A few Drupal users noticed that their CKEditor was not working in IE8. They had also noticed that the Debug Bar they had used was showing the error "Line 11 - Error Insufficient memory to continue this operation." The IE8 debugger tool also showed the following errors 'Drupal' is undefined on line 21, 25 and 28 in ckeditor.config.js & "insufficient memory' on line 11 in ckeditor.js". If you are facing the same issue in your Drupal site when using IE8 then read on.

Drupal users who migrated from the FCKEditor to CKEditor realized that there was no easy way to Upload images in CKEditor. The reason was that unlike FCKEditor there is no upload tab available in the CKEditor browser unless CKFinder is used which requires a commercial license. If you are looking for way to overcome this limitation then continue reading.

You might encounter a situation in a Drupal site where you wish to enable CKEditor in a custom field but realized that CKEditor was not loading in custom fields. The only field CKEditor might have been loading would have been the body field. If you are looking for a way to add the CKEditor to the field of your choice in your Drupal site then continue reading.

A Drupal user found out that the ImageCache preset folders were not being created after they had created the presets. If you are encountering the same situation in your Drupal site then continue reading for the solution.

A Drupal user encountered an error when using CKEditor in their Drupal site. Images were being uploaded but the path was incorrect as CKEditor was inserting a double slash to the image path after upload causing broken images in the Drupal site. Removing the double slash manually solved the problem. If your Drupal site is experiencing the same problem and you need a better solution then continue reading.

The webform module in Drupal gives you a great set of tools to let you create HTML forms with ease with a drag and drop interface for most of the commonly used HTML form elements. Since it is considered as another content type the forms are usually placed in a separate page of its own. Usually that is all that is required, but there are scenarios where you need to embed the webform in another content type like a page. Here is how to do it. First you need to create a custom module to write the code to embed the form in a page or add it to an existing custom module.

Replying to comments is an extremely good practice for bringing recurring traffic to your Drupal website as you are interacting with your visitors. If you can send those new comments to an email address, you can respond to them quicker since a late reply usually goes unnoticed. Normally in a Drupal 6 website, the admin user has to login to the website and moderate the comments which often leads to a significant delay in response time. Check out our instructions on how to send comments to an email address in a Drupal 6 website.

Normally while using Flag module, the flag name is displayed as a link. If you want to change this behaviour and replace the link with a button, you can do this easily by using CSS. You need not alter any forms for this. For this you may add the below code to your CSS.

Some Drupal users had realized that the CKEditor module installed in their Drupal site was inserting unwanted slashes into their content when the content was saved after being edited in the CKEditor. If you are facing the same issue then continue reading to know the fix.

A few Drupal users encountered a situation where when they installed the Drupal CKEditor module, they lost the functionality for the setup options for each module. Installing the CKEditor seemed to disable basic UI functionality in the options page of all the other modules. If you are looking for a fix for such a situation in your Drupal site then continue reading.

Some Drupal users have encountered an situation in their CKEditor in their Drupal website when all of a sudden CKEditor started changing the image embed code on save. The preview of the image seemed to be fine but the unwanted quotes were added when the content with the image was saved. If you are encountering the same situation in the CKEditor of your Drupal site then checkout the solution below.

A few Drupal users have encountered an error in their CKEditor in their Drupal website with the editor UI buttons failing to appear. The Firefox error log displayed the following error message "m.lang.contextmenu is undefined.". If you are facing the same issue in your Drupal website, then continue reading to find out more.

A Drupal user encountered a scenario where when the Drupal site with an existing ImageCache path was moved to a new server, the ImageCache created new paths with the old image paths still in existence, i.e. adding a 'files' entry to the existing path. This basically meant that the new image path was being added to the existing image path when the presets were called. If you are facing a scenario that is similar to the one the user is facing in your Drupal installation then read on to know the solution.