On campus we have GTED, the Georgia Tech Enterprise Directory, an LDAP server that stores lots of information about people. Some is public, but a lot of it is private. With a departmental account, you can get a lot of information and feed it into Drupal to automatically set up groups of users.
CKEditor normally shows a Text format drop-down selector just below the editing window, but the GT Editor hides this selector to streamline the editing experience. However, there can be cases where you want to use other Drupal text formats for special cases (e.g. embedding a Twitter or Facebook feed).
The GT Subtheme has CSS code that hides the drop-down, which you can find at sites/all/themes/gt_subtheme/css/gt_subtheme.css. The lines that hide the text format dropdown box are:
If you want your editors to be able to easily apply your custom CSS classes via the Styles drop-down list in the GT Editor:
Warning: This page is no longer current and should not be relied upon. It has been archived for historical purposes only and references something that no longer exists or is no longer supported.
Are you adding design elements with CSS and want editors to be able to use your new CSS classes within GT Editor? You may have discovered that those classes are being stripped out when the page is saved. What's happening is that GT Editor operates on a whitelist principle to keep your site and its content safe. You must add any elements, classes, etc.
If your site is using the Drupal 7 GT Theme, and has had the custom Georgia Tech Page Layouts package installed, then when adding a new block, or editing an existing block, you can make your blocks look fancier than a standard Drupal block. This is done by selecting a custom style via the checkboxes under the "STYLING" section at the bottom of any block configuration page. The available styles are:
The GT Tools module is required when using the GT Theme and should be installed before the theme on your Drupal 7 site. It provides some additional functionality that Drupal doesn't support directly in a theme package, so this functionality had to be provided in a separate module.
If your site is running on Drupal 7 with the official GT Theme and the GT Editor module, then you should have a Styles drop-down option in the toolbar of your WYSIWYG (GUI) text editor (AKA CKEditor) with the following formatting styles. If you are not using both the official theme and the GT Editor module, then you will not see any of these styles (and may not even see the Styles drop-down option).
If you have access to manage blocks on your Drupal site, the following tips and tricks may help you achieve better positioning of your blocks.
Blocks that are placed within the main content regions of a horizontal, vertical or multipurpose page (only available if you have installed the custom Georgia Tech Content Types package) will automatically resize, based on number of blocks in that region. Regions whose blocks behave this way include:
The GT Theme, by default, will use your site's "main menu" for your primary menu. The primary menu is the gold-colored horizontal one that sits below the main Georgia Tech logo. This menu will show the top-level links in a horizontal line, with child links appearing as drop-down boxes.
Additional menus provided by the GT Theme that you can modify include:
