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I am using drupal 5.1, CiviCRM 1.8 on a hosted server (so I can't mess with Apache and PHP settings).

I have a public site (www.kwndp.ca) and a subdomain that holds an internal site (activist.kwndp.ca) that is only for members. I'd like CiviCRM to be available from the internal site (the subdomain) but not from the main site. The drupal site on the subdomain itself is working fine. Everything is in a single database, but I have a separate prefix for all the tables so that I effectively have two separate sites. CiviCRM tables are shared, however.

The problem is that although I have set up the CiviCRM menu and other CiviCRM blocks such as CiviCRM search to appear in the left sidebar on all pages, they appear when I am inside the Administration section of the site. Other blocks show properly on all pages of the site. My administration theme is the same as my theme on the rest of the site.

Any ideas?

-  Tom

Aha.

I obviously misinterpreted the workflow you expect. I'm new to CiviCRM so I'm not about to go hacking about to change its behaviour to fit my preconceptions. Once I get my head round the workflow model I'm sure it will become clearer.

Thanks for the prompt response.

Tom

Tom:

We intentionally suppress all CiviCRM Blocks from ALL Drupal pages except CiviCRM and Drupal Admin Pages. If you want the blocks to show up on all drupal pages, you will need to hack the code, specifically the drupal/civicrm.module, civicrm_block( ) function

lobo

I was wondering the same thing, yay for search!

I had a feeling that this was intentional behavior, but it is good to confirm.

Tom:

It was not the workflow, it was more of a screen clutter issue. Having three civicrm blocks on ALL pages seemed a bit too much for most people, hence the decision to suppress it

lobo

I'm not sure about Joomla, but Drupal already has an option to suppress or display blocks on certain pages. I think it would be better to allow end-users to take advantage of Drupal's existing "page specific visibility settings" to control where the blocks display. That would make the CivicCRM module behave more like other blocks, and give much more flexibility to the end-user (without having to hack any code). Although, if Joomla doesn't have a similar feature I guess you would be out of luck...