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deepa.n

Associate - Business Development
Deepa is a Software Engineer turned Bid Manager. As an information technology graduate, she started out as a developer and moved into customer facing roles offering optimal solution to clients.

[Drupal] How to avoid profile validation on user delete?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
One of our clients had a problem that when they try to delete users who have signed up via mobile app they get an error saying they must enter a street address for the user before the account can be deleted. This was because users who sign up via the mobile app were not asked for their street address, but on the Drupal site the street address is a required field when a user signs up.
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[Drupal] How to build a small business portfolio website with Drupal?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
Today, people are looking for free and easy to use content management systems to run their website. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) which help users create, structure, and publish content. From a company perspective the priority will be on saving costs and shifting attention back to customers. Here is a useful checklist for developers, to meet the above needs for building a small business website without compromising the quality.
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[Solved] Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
Recently, we came across an error - "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server" while trying to run a new virtual host on our Ubuntu 14.04 machine. The first step to troubleshoot this type of issue would be to check at your Apache error logs as this specific type status can be thrown due to many reasons. Since we have Apache 2.4.7 installed on our system, each virtual host file should have the .conf extension. We corrected the extension also. But the issue was still there. However this information lead us to think on it further and finally we found the reason for the issue.
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[Drupal] How to add custom contact form using webform module

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
Webform module is a perfect solution, if you are looking for a more complex contact form or multiple feedback forms to add to your Drupal 7 website. This module will enable you to create and manage as many forms as you need. Recently, we had a need to create three different feedback forms for a Drupal website. One of the webforms was a contact form to connect with different contact persons of the company where as, another one was to send enquiries about the products and there was a guest book page to leave feedback. Here is how we achieved all these requirements in one shot using the webform module.
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How to write business use cases?

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News | 4 min read
Business use cases gives you the best solution for understanding your system's ability to meet the needs of end users. It describes each business scenario of your system which need to be addressed and how a potential user might use your site. Business use cases will also help in identifying the possible usage options and eases testing the whole application based on the functionality. Writing a business use case document is pretty simple and this will serve as a checklist to confirm the features of your application.
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