The Keene Drupal users group has its third meetup of 2013 on March 7th at our usual haunt of 9 Church Street.
Anyone who has any interest in Drupal is encouraged to attend, whether you just use it in your day job & want to learn more, have used it for a while and need help with something, or are just interested in finding out about the most popular open source content management system.
Topics
- Drupal 8 Sprint Weekend
- Drupalcamp NH 2013
- Drupalcamp MA discussion
- Panels intro
- Q & A - bring your questions, we'll (try to) try to bring the answers :-)
Details
Location: 9 Church Street, Keene, NH 03431. (there will be signs on the door)
Map: https://maps.google.com/?q=9+Church+Street,+Keene,+NH+03431
Parking: Use the public parking lot off Roxbury Plaza - go North on Main Street, take a right on Roxbury Street, take another right on Roxbury Plaza. Walk West on Church Street to get to the building.
Epilogue
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Comments
Some snow tonight
FYI there's supposed to be snow falling tonight so I'll understand if people don't show: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.956548&lon=-72.319372&un...
Assuming the roads are
Assuming the roads are passable and I can make it tonight... Just wondering if anyone knows about Using Rules and if there'd be time for some discussion.
Roger
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Art has gone to the dogs
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Doesn't look too bad
On my way...
Hope to see you there.
Roger
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A pleasure as always
My apologies I had to skip out early (again) just as we began the agenda proper. However I'm sure Damien did just fine without me assisting him in getting ahead of himself ;)
Hope this was beneficial to you! Panels and all of its children / permutations / implementations could likely fill a year's worth of meetings on its own -- definitely the kind of module that opens up a lot of options to brainstorm over.
One of my favorites, especially for breathing a little life back into the interface of a D6 site with "troubled" managers, is Panels Tabs (http://drupal.org/project/panels_tabs)
It allows you to set any particular Region of your Layout to display it's individual Panes as a series of Tabs. This has the odd use for public-facing pages -- but my favorite trick is for ease-of-use for content-level maintainers; facilitating a "forward-facing" interface.
Wherever displaying a view, I throw Create Node forms and Draggable Tables (for weight sorting) in the same place as the view which displays the content to the public. We can then either add Role- or Permission- based Selection Rules to the Pane itself (just as we would at the variant level!) -- or rely on the views' access rules itself -- and the result is the contextual and secure appearance / disappearance of a full-fledged in-place interfaces for managing the specific content.
I'd love to hear any other faves, recipes, or "mere" brainstorming you fine gentlemen have to offer -- either from experience, or as they develops!