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In Drupal 7 Image module offers an image field which makes available an image widget for file fields that can be added to content types. This will allow for upload of images to the image field which can then later be processed by the image module and be presented using the different image styles as configured. This means that image module should have the ability to process files uploaded using this field.

Many Drupal users were encountering a situation in their Drupal site where Boost was caching the Drupal error messages on a page. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site and would like to know how to prevent Boost from caching Drupal error messages then read on to find out the solution.

A large number of Drupal users where getting a " HTTP request status Fails Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services " error message in the status reports page of their Drupal site. If you are facing the same error message in the status reports of your Drupal site and would like to know how to fix then continue reading.

A large number of Drupal users were encountering a situation in which IE8 was not creating Boost cache pages while it was working normally on other browsers. If you are using IE8 and would like to know why IE 8 is not displaying Boost cached versions of the pages of your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution

A lot of Drupal users who had installed Boost have encountered a situation where the Boost cache in their Drupal site is getting generated but not being displayed. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site with Boost then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users using Boost to cache their Drupal sites were getting the "Boost: Crawler is already running. Attempt to start crawler failed." error. If you are a Drupal users using Boost in your Drupal site and would like to know how to fix the Crawler already running error message then read on to know the solution.

Many Drupal users using Boost were complaining that the users were unable to access their site and were instead give the option to get a gzipped version of the site. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site which uses Boost then read on to find out the solution.

Two important aspects about managing multiple projects with multiple teams are scheduling of the projects & milestones and allocation of resources to these projects. Over the past few years we have been using a simple Google Spreadsheet based utility which we had developed in-house to schedule projects and to allocate resources for projects. We had earlier released this as Free Software under a GPL license and made this available as free template and over 1000 users are currently using this tool.

Error guessing is a testing technique based on guessing. It is not just guessing, but the skill of a tester. The tester acquires this skill from his prior experience in testing. This technique has got important significance in testing, and is discussed below.

Here is a script to help you find empty directories located under a specified parent-folder. The file folders.txt contains the list of folders that are to be passed as input to the script. The script will now check all the folders mentioned in the file folders.txt, and give the list of folders that are empty. The output can either be seen at the terminal or it can be passed to a file via a redirector. Here is the code for the same:

A Drupal user encountered a situation in a View in their Drupal site where some of the fields disappeared after enabling the "Use Aggregation" option in the View. To be more specific the User Roles disappeared after enabling "Use aggregation" in the View. If you are facing the same issue with Drupal Views in your Drupal site then read on to know the solution.

This is a script to create a particular directory under all subdirectories in a parent directory. Consider the case when a parent directory consists of more than 100 folders and you want create a new folder under all these directories, with the same name. Doing this manually would be a mess. This script would help you do this in no time. These are the steps for executing the script: First, add the exact path where the parent directory is present, and the name of the folder that is to be created.

File upload fields are one of the most vulnerable elements in a Drupal form, highly prone to hack attempts. So these have to undergo thorough rounds of testing to make sure the data that goes in is perfectly safe.

The criteria required to 'stop testing' is determined by many factors. When a test plan is created it is critical to define the exit criteria. Following are some of the decisions we take to explicitly stop testing during the testing phase.

A few Drupal users having a multilingual Drupal website had noticed that the Price field disappears when adding a product in another language in a Drupal site running Drupal Commerce. If you are facing the same issue with Drupal Commerce in your Drupal site then read on to know the solution.

A number of Drupal users were facing a situation where the Fields of the Add to Cart form disappear when adding a new product after upgrading the Drupal Commerce module to version 1.4. If you are facing the same situation with Drupal Commerce in your Drupal site then read on to find out the fix.

A number of Drupal users have encountered a White screen page accompanied by a "PHP error: Call to a member function value() on a non-object" error message when accessing the Checkout Review page of the Drupal Commerce module. If you are facing the same situation with Drupal Commerce in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.