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By default Drupal 7 has two types of views - The Full node view and the Teaser view. This has been the case for all previous versions of Drupal. However if your requirements are different, then you might have to create a custom view that is tailored to meet your specific needs. Check out how to create a simple custom “View mode” for nodes in Drupal 7.

PostgreSQL commonly known as Postgres is an open source object-relational database system which has been around for more than 15 years. PostgreSQL is well reputed with a lot of awards to its name.It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. Learn how to install PostgreSQL client and PostgreSQL server in Ubuntu with this step by step tutorial.

Networking in Ubuntu means that you will need to know how to conduct Samba server configuration. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. Samba server configuration is essential to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments. Here is a step by step tutorial that will walk you through each stage of network configuration using Samba Server in Ubuntu.

An offer letter or a letter of appointment is offered to an individual who has successfully passed all the interviews and tests conducted by an organisation to formally announce that he is now part of that organisation/company. Shown below is the format used by Zyxware Technologies to welcome the newest members of its highly dynamic team.

When an employee/company personnel needs a valid proof of their address, then the company itself can come to their aid and validate their address through a Proof of address letter.  Following is the sample format of the proof of residence issued by Zyxware Technologies when any of our personnel needs to valid proof of their address.  

The Drupal Menu System handles both the navigational system (visible menus and links) as well as the Drupal callbacks in the back end. The menu links listed on the header of a Drupal site is normally the primary menu or the secondary menu. These menus are sets of static links that you create via the Drupal admin interface. However sometimes it is useful to have a login / logout link in the primary or the secondary menu depending on whether the user is logged out or logged in. Here is how you add this.

For any fresher who has never worked in a live project, the term SDLC, might seem to prevail only in theory. Now is your time, to acquire an in-depth understanding of this cycle which moulds an authentic and concrete software product.

On a Drupal site, when setting up pathauto for nodes, sometimes it is useful to have the full nested path of parent terms of the channel (or primary vocabulary) for the article in the url alias to give the impression of a directory structure to the taxonomy vocabulary. This will allow users to see urls to nodes like domain/term1/term2/term3/node-title-or-whatever where term3 is the channel under which the article is published.

Drupal is supposed to be a very secure CMS and the Drupal security team is a highly efficient team of people scouting the Drupal camp to find and sort out security issues as soon as they crop up. But no amount of programming will fix security issues caused by incorrect configuration of a Drupal site. Here is a checklist of items that you have to confirm after you deploy a new Drupal installation.

Running Drupal on a shared hosting environment could become a challenge when the site starts getting a lot of visitors. So f you run your Drupal installation on one of the shared hosting providers like GoDaddy, Hostgator, Dreamhost etc and your site is reasonably popular then it is likely that you would have run into performance issues if the site is not configured correctly. If you configure your Drupal site correctly you should be able to stick with shared hosting for a longer period of time before moving on to dedicated hosting.

Drupal uses a reasonably powerful mechanism to create, prepare and send emails generated within the system. We maintain two modules related to emails in Drupal - Mail Merge and MailQ (Mail Queue) - and get the opportunity to work with the mail subsystem in Drupal. Here is a brief write-up on how the mail system works in Drupal.

When you work on forms in Drupal where you want to have the same form array elements used multiple times in a form you can use the concept of for form tree. For example if you are working on a purchase order form where you want to have multiple rows of product information like say product name, product code, quantity, price etc, for each product added to the form. This can easily be done using the form tree as follows.

Broken Link Checker Broken Line Checker is a Wordpress plugin that will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found. Link Checker is the Drupal module to detect broken hypertext links. Currently this module is not available for Drupal 7.

Bad Behavior Bad Behavior prevents spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your Wordpress site in the first place. Bad Behavior is available for Drupal It seems there is no plan yet for a Drupal 7 version and is only supported till version 6 of Drupal