Unicode

December 3, 2015

Really just so I remember what works for me. There are plenty of pages Google will find you, and mostly their suggestions work ie

CTRL-SHIFT-u <followed by hex code of the char you want and RETURN>

For most X applications, eg pidgin, browsers, etc that works, but not emacs or the command line.

For emacs CTRL-X 8 RETURN <then hex code> RETURN

 


EdWeb 1.6 update and banner

December 2, 2015

The first attempt to update a fresh copy of web.inf running on webtest.inf, didn’t work. And I got a strange PHP error. It looked like some issue with our content in the DB. A call was logged, but in the mean time they suggested it was our local theme. I doubted it, but I did try an update of webtest.inf with the web.inf data, but without our theme installed and one of the default edweb themes. Much to my chagrin, it did update. For completeness I took another fresh copy of web.inf, this time with our local theme still in use, and that too worked!

Since then I’ve tried several more times to get the update from 1.5 to 1.6 of the distro to fail, but it has not. I’ve let the web support people know via the unidesk ticket.

Hide Banner RFC

Stratos informed me that the next release of EdWeb will contain the ability to hide the banner image on certain pages. It will be configurable to hide on single pages, or complete (sub-)sites. And will be available to people with the CMS Operative role. This sounds ideal, and an improvement over my simple solution. This should mean our RFC for this can be shelved. Hopefully this change will be on central by the end of the year, and in the distro early next year.

 Change the way we apply our local theme

While testing the upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6, I tripped over the problem that you can’t edit and save the homepage content type, without picking an explicit colour theme. Unfortunately this then overrides our site wide local search and hidden banner theme. So the banner and Ed.ac.uk wide search re-appears. I’ve not found a way for our theme to trump the homepage selected theme, so I’ll probably have to look at not using a theme to override things, but just patch the EdWeb distro directly. A simple hack of replacing the shipped page.tpl.php, does indeed replace the the template, but things like:

 if( !theme_get_setting('uoe_localsearch_hidebanner')) {

Don’t read the local theme setting, so presumably they’ll all have to be patched into the shipped theme. More experimenting is required.

Neil