change user_profile_form form fields order - drupal

When a user login , the user will be redirect to a user profile page, which has a My account field set.
the field set has 2 fields, "Username: ", "Email address:". those 2 fields are generated by drupal.
those 2 field contained in a form which has a id ("user_profile_form") . I want to change the order of those 2 fields.
I have tried to intercept 'user_profile_form' , inside hook_form_alter.
code as follow:
$form['account']['name']['#weight'] = 1;
but that did not success, drupal did not even rendering the 'name' field, so no username: showed on browser.

What you did is absolutely correct, and probably did work. You can change the weight of the fields with the method described above.
The username field is not always rendered. The reason is that a persmission is required: change own username. If that perm is not set, you wont be allowed to alter you username and the field wont be shown.
Info on debugging.
Your info alone is not quite enough to debug. From what you describe, you are doing the right thing, but other modules could be making things a bit tricky for you. The devel module is quite good when it comes to debugging, ti defines two functions I use a lot when debugging:
dpm() pretty prints the variable to the message area using krumo.
dd() Prints / saves a variable to a log file. Useful when you can't view messages on the screen.
I would suggest that you look at the $form variable before and after you alter it.
Things that could make it go wrong:
Did you remember to pass the $form variable by reference using the & notation?
Is another module altering your form after you?
Are you checking for the correct form id, so you alter the correct form?
These are some pointers, before you bring more info, all I can do is guess to what your problem exactly can be. I did something like this a few days ago so I know what you describe shouldn't be a problem.

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How to update mark a form dirty after a server side modification

I don't understand how to make the Client ui aware of a server side change in a document.
My use case is the following : I'm adding a button to my form, that calls a custom document method :
In MyDocType.py, I have :
class MyDocType(Document):
#frappe.whitelist()
def change_some_value_in_doc(self):
self.the_field_i_want_to_change = 50
It work in the sense that the_field_i_want_to_change is immediately updated to the new value.
However, If I hit Save, I get the message "No changes in document". I managed to determine that this is because on the JS side, the form is not marked as "dirty", but despite reading the documentation over and over, I cannot find the right way.
I tried with self.notify_update() which seems to have no effect.
Is it a bug ? Or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work ?
I'm using frappe v 14.0.0-beta.3
[EDIT]
Actually, I realized that doing
class MyDocType(Document):
#frappe.whitelist()
def change_some_value_in_doc(self):
self.the_field_i_want_to_change = 50
self.save()
Does work in the sense that it save the new value, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for, because my purpose is actually to pre-fill some data with the custom method and leave to the user to complete before saving...
Any help to get me in the right direction would be very appreciated.
To pre-fill data in your form - that you want the user to confirm before saving to the database, you should use client-side scripting (in JS). Changing the value on the server is not going to help you since you want the user to get pre-filled values before inserting a record in the database.

Run checks on drupal_goto function

I have a strange issue with a drupal site and a custom form. I have a custom module that puts a form as a block...simple input field that posts a search query to a store locator.
The form keeps getting overridden and the action/url changes randomly at random times. I need a quick solution to this whilst we debug the real issue that's causing this.
I need to write an if statement that checks the drupal_goto function that goes along the lines of if drupal_goto == /store-locator then run else change the drupal_goto action to /store-locator.
Any help would be appreciated.

Drupal 6: how to make CCK default values translatable?

In my multilanguage Drupal 6 website I need to make my CCK field default values translatable, i.e.
Hello - in the English version
Bonjour - in the French one
I cannot find this text with Translation Table, neither are these values in variable table so that I can use multilingual variables.
Do You know how to have different default values in different languages?
When you define the CCK field, you can enter a PHP code snippet to override the default value of the field.
Enter the following there :
return array(0 => array('value' => t('Hello')));
Now access a node add page with this CCK field from a non-English version so that it gets added to translatable strings.
Now you're able to translate it using the "Translate interface" menu (it might take a visit to the "create" page of your cck type first though). It doesn't require any extra modules in fact, just basic D6 (and it probably works in D5 and D7 as well).
This method is a bit of a hack. Im not sure I would deploy this without really considering the consequences. For a simple usecase it MIGHT be ok.
Create a custom module, lets say def_translate. To def_translate.module, add a function
function def_translate_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) {
if($node->type == "sometype"
&& $op == "load"
&& $node->field_some_cck_field_type[0]['value'] == "your default value")
{
$node->field_some_cck_field_type[0]['value'] =
t($node->field_some_cck_field_type[0]['value']);
}
}
Ok - so what is this doing?
When a node is loaded, hook_nodeapi gets called, with $op set to "load". This gives us an opportunity to do manipulate the node before it is rendered. Before we do anything we check
Is this the right type of node?
Is our op = "load"?
Is the value our default value?
What we then do is pass the existing default value through the t() function. This will make the default string available to i18n translation table, and you can then use the normal way of translating strings.
*DISCLAIMER*
I have not tested this myself in production. Im not entirely sure what the effects will be. You probably want to think this through before implementing it, and you probably want to put some features in to look up the default values from the DB incase they are changed in the CCK UI.
Hope this helps - or possibly shakes a hint of a solution to your problem!

Take data from a field from exsisting node and make that the default value of a field in different content type

I don't know if I'm on the right track but I'm trying to let users of my web site create there own versions of pages on my web site.
Basically I'd like to make our documentation used as a starting point where they just add details and make a new page for themselves in the process.
I have a 'book' content type that I have changed with CCK and a 'client edits' content type that uses a nodereferencefromURL widget to link itself to the book node.
So simple version of what I'm saying is I have a link on my book pages that creates a node using client edits content type. I would like to put some fields on the client edits content type that take the values of some of the fields from the book page it is linked from.
I'm sure I'm missing something as I would have thought someone would have tried this before but I can't even find a hint on how to go about this.
All I really need is a point in the right direction if my current thinking is wrong.
Current thinking is that I use a php script to get the default value for a field on the new node add screen that drags the value for a field from the book I'm linking from.
I'm thinking this is the case because there is an option for default values for the field in cck manage fields that lets you put in a php value to return a default value for your field.
Am I on the right track or is there already a module or process that does what I'm talking about and I'm just too dumb to find it.
This sounds a little strange, are your client edits going to be a diff from the original node or just coppied data?
I would prehaps do it a more simple way, just have book nodes, and have different fields disaply depending on who edits it (enable the content_permissions module). That way you can use the node clone module to create the users copy.
You will need to make a module to contain your custom php code.
I ended up using rules to save information from the user and the cloned node into hidden fields.
One that saved the original node ID into a field when ever you create content of that type unless the url ends with Clone. This means that when you create the clone the original node ID is kept in the field.
That made it easy to use a views argument that took the node ID to make the clone appear along side the original when a user visits the original page.
The second rule trick was to compute a field that saved the "store name" from the profile of the user only when saving clone content.
This meant that there was a hidden field on the clone that stored the info so I could then use another views argument to restrict the view to only people with the same store name in their profile.
I am no good with PHP but I managed to find a snippet (can't remember where) that returns the store name of the current logged in user as the argument.
global $user;
profile_load_profile($user);
return $user->profile_store_name;

Drupal using views with CCK custom fields

I've got a Drupal site which uses a custom field for a certain type of node (person_id) which corresponds to a particular user. I want to create a view so that when logged in, a user can see a list of nodes 'tagged' with their person_id. I've got the view working fine, with a url of my-library/username but replacing username with a different username shows a list of all nodes tagged with that user. What I want to do is stop users changing the URL and seeing other users' tagged nodes. How can I do this? Is there somewhere where I can dictate that the only valid argument for this page is the one that corresponds with the current logged in user's username?
person_id = uid?
In this case, add argument with user:uid, then in Validation options select PHP Code, read comment of this field carefully:
Enter PHP code that returns TRUE or
FALSE. No return is the same as FALSE,
so be SURE to return something if you
do not want to declare the argument
invalid. Do not use . The
argument to validate will be
"$argument" and the view will be
"$view". You may change the argument
by setting "$handler->argument".
Add this code:
global $user;
$account = user_load('name'=>arg(1));
$handler->argument = $user->uid;
return $account->uid == $user->uid;
I'm not sure how you have setup your view, which gives some different options to solve this. A way that should work would be to set the default argument be the logged users id/username and remove the argument from the url.
Alternatively you could create your own filter which requires some work with the views API, but gives more control.

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