1 Topic by cwdee

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Topic: Problems understanding how to install on Drupal 7

I'm finding the documentation a bit hard to get my head around for installing Indicia on an existing Drupal 7 website.

Can someone point me to the place in the documentation where that is covered. What looks like a starting point near the bottom of page 61 makes the assumption that I'm starting with a Drupal site set up using instant Indicia, but I got the impression that Instant Indicia is intended for starting from scratch.

I've installed and enabled the Drupal 7 iform module and the indicia_features module, but am getting a message 'Please create the file helper_config.php in the ./sites/all/modules/iform/client_helpers/ folder on the server.' Where is it documented what that should contain?

Environment is Drupal 7.3.8 and PHP 5.4.41 on Apache/2.2.22.

Thanks, Chris

Chris Dee
Garganey Consulting

2 Reply by Jim Bacon

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Re: Problems understanding how to install on Drupal 7

Hi Chris

You are correct that Instant Indicia was a package from starting a Drupal site from scratch with all the Drupal ingredients. It is now out of date and you are doing what is best which is to download the components as required and add them to an existing Drupal site like any other module.

Another thing worth knowing is that the formal release of code is very sporadic while development and bug fixing goes on apace. You are best off working with the latest development code which can be obtained from the code repository.

Note, today, the code is in the Google repository, https://code.google.com/p/indicia/. However, by the end of the week we hope to have migrated to Github as Google are closing their repository.

Final tip for now; my technique for finding indicia documentation is to Google "indicia readthedocs whatever-i-want-to-know"

Having done that, I point you to http://indicia-docs.readthedocs.org/en/ … pport.html to solve your immediate problem. I'm not even sure the $base_url setting is needed since this is supplied in Drupal settings. The file is mainly needed to support non-Drupal uses of the Indicia library.

Jim Bacon.

3 Reply by cwdee

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Re: Problems understanding how to install on Drupal 7

Great thanks for that.

In fact, the Drupal module install did create a _helper_config.php in the ./sites/all/modules/iform/client_helpers/ folder, albeit without all the variables in the copy from the repository, just nowhere was there any instruction that this needed to be updated and renamed to helper_config.php.

So the backend is configured and working now.

Chris

Chris Dee
Garganey Consulting