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Suppose you have a Drupal website which supports multilingual sites with translated content and the user has the permission to choose the language. On selecting the language all the contents should be converted to the selected language. This article sheds light on how the testing of this feature comes to be. Read on to know how to test Drupal site with translatable content.
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Specialized fonts beyond the typical “Arial, Geneva, Helvetica” can be embeded to your site by uploading Web Open Font Format file for the needed font in your site. Aesthetics is often very important for any website you design. If it isn't pleasing to the eyes, it will directly affect traffic. Fonts are a very important in aesthetics and readability. If you are not sure of how to add web fonts to your site then read on.
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Fullcalendar is a jQuery plugin which gives a full-sized calendar with drag-and-drop and with many other features. Events can be dragged on to the calendar and can be resized. It uses AJAX to dynamically load the events on the fly. In this article I will explain how to enable the fullcalendar with different options and loading events dynamically from the database.
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We had an issue pointed out by one of our Drupal client that traffic from specific page to be redirected to another URL. In Drupal redirecting trafic from specific page on specific domains can be handle either by including a Drupal hook_init function or setting the .htaccess. Function hook_init runs at beginning of page request but it loads all Drupal modules and database for every page which results in performance issues. On the other hand .htaccess files are read on every page request and the effect to the changes in the .htaccess files is quick.
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Business use cases gives you the best solution for understanding your system's ability to meet the needs of end users. It describes each business scenario of your system which need to be addressed and how a potential user might use your site. Business use cases will also help in identifying the possible usage options and eases testing the whole application based on the functionality. Writing a business use case document is pretty simple and this will serve as a checklist to confirm the features of your application.
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In websites response time play a very important roles. Capturing this time is a difficult task. We can perform this by selenium Framework and by using the below script we can calculate the response time. The main aim of the script is to find time taken for JavaScript code execution, elements loading, page load etc. In this code we can calculate the time span between two events in different case.
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Authorize.net is a popular alternative to Paypal for eCommerce websites especially its recurring transaction product - Authorize.net ARB (Automated Recurring Billing). Drupal support for Authnet ARB is available through Ubercart but it is not available for Drupal_commerce. However there is a workaround to setup Authorizet.net ARB to work with Drupal commerce. Read on to know more.
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I had met a peculiar Apache 2 error on Drupal upgrading. I can see my site loaded but can't access any of the sub-URL's in the site. When I provide the Url:www.test.com/admin/node, its shows "Requested URL /admin/node not found on this server". But if the url is provided like 'test.com/?q=node/', it allows to get the link.
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While using websites with numerous web pages, you might feel confused like which page you are currently in or from which page you reached the current page. For tracking this navigation, websites often use breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail. Breadcrumbs are usually seen at the top of site pages. It is nothing but listing of website links separated by a greater-than sign (>). Here what user should do is just click the links and navigate to corresponding pages. Each link on breadcrumbs are termed as Levels. The main advantage of these links is helping users navigate to higher level pages of the site. Following are some of the test cases that can be referred while testing breadcrumbs in a site.
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Regression testing is conducted to make sure the bug has no effect on your products's performance and to search for some new problems in already examined application. Moreover, regression examining is essential to run when presenting data source or program changes, solving bugs or shifting to a different system or Os.
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A bug was noticed in the Drupal site that permission for creating node not working on upgrading the module. We can create the node or view it if we are admin users but the node is not accessible to authenticated users or cant be viewed by anonymous users. I tried the fixing by looking at the permissions of the nodes to the specific users.It all looked fine and created a custom permission for the same.The issue still stayed.
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In the modern corporate scenario, most businesses have to constantly struggle to strengthen their website credibility. As your website is usually the first point of contact between your business and client, utilize this opportunity to create a lasting first impression. Your website should send a vibe that the organization it represents is reliable and trustworthy.
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In Drupal we can create a time based subscription for a user for a given role. The user will be assigned to that role for a certain limit of time, after that the role will expire. The subscription will be based on Ubercart product. When a user purchases the product, account of user is upgraded to a specified role for a given time limit. The user can also renew for the role by purchasing the product after end of subscription.