[horde] can't get fixed portal blocks to display

[Cannon Watts]

On Tue, April 26, 2011 5:15 am, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Cannon Watts <cwatts at elsberry.k12.mo.us>:
>
>> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I can't get fixed portal
>> blocks
>> to work.  I have a fresh install of horde-webmail 1.2.9 (horde version
>> 3.3.11).
>>
>> If I create a new user and log into horde, I get six portal blocks:
>> folder summary, calendar summary, filters overview, tasks summary, notes
>> summary, and contact search.
>>
>> The problem is, those six don't correspond to the fixed blocks defined
>> in
>> Setup->Horde->Portal Blocks.  I can log in as Administrator, and make
>> changes to the fixed portal blocks, and can verifyy that those changes
>> have
>> been made to horde/config/conf.php.
>>
>> However, I can then create another new user, log in for the first time,
>> and I get the same six blocks as the first user regardless of the value
>> of $conf['portal']['fixed_blocks'] in horde/config/conf.php
>>
>> If it matters, platform is CentOS 5.6, kernel 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5, PHP
>> version 5.1.6,  Apache 2.2.3-45
>>
>> Anyone have an explanation for why my fixed blocks aren't showing?  For
>> that matter, where are the six blocks that are showing up defined?
>
> Horde Groupware already provides a default set of blocks, those are
> the 6 blocks you see. The fixed_blocks setting is only used to build
> the initial set of blocks, if the user doesn't have any blocks set in
> his preferences. If you want to use fixed_blocks instead of the
> default set, you need to set the 'value' for the portal layout
> preference in config/prefs.php to an empty string. (Or 'a:0:{}' if you
> get an error then).
>
> Jan.
>


That explains it.  Thank you.

Cannon