November User Group Meeting

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eliza411's picture
Start: 
2009-11-11 18:00 - 19:30 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting
  • Modules 101: A 5-10 minute overview of a Drupal module. The module is TBD. If you'd like to choose and present let us know in the comments.
  • Node Reference and Node Referrer: Two great modules that go great together. Greg Perry from Dorey Design Group will present an overview of using Node Reference and Node Referrer to create relationships between content.
  • Announcements: Items of Interest from User Group members

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

Comments

Has anyone given a

jnicola's picture

Has anyone given a presentation on using Content Template for advanced themeing before? It would be a pretty short presentation overall, and I think useful for newer users resorting to using Panels when they should be focusing on node-content_type.tpl.php!

Jesse Nicola -- Shredical six different ways to Sunday! -- My Portfolio

Sounds great!

eliza411's picture

A while back there was a comparison of Content Template, the theme layer, and computed fields for providing conditional output, a quite different focus.

I think your suggestion sounds great, and there's room this meeting for a presentation up to 30 minutes long. It would be swell if the presentation were Web-accessible so that we could use just one already-hooked-up laptop for it.

First off, I just got this

jnicola's picture

First off, I just got this comment for some reason. My appologies. I'd love to present, but probably won't have time to whip anything up for this Wednesdays. I dropped the ball and thought nothing ever came of it all. Obviously my bad!

I'd like to present next month (december), although that may be finals week for me.

I'll actually try and directly contact you with some further questions.

Jesse Nicola -- Shredical six different ways to Sunday! -- My Portfolio

Module 101 - Admin Module.

emptyvoid's picture

hey I would love to present on the admin module..

http://drupal.org/project/admin

My company has recently been integrating it into our distributions for project and I would love to talk about the module and some of the sticking points for those who maybe interested in using it. Because of the nature of the presentation I could bring my own laptop to run Drupal on.

Robert Foley Jr
Solutions Architect
http://www.robertfoleyjr.com

You can plan on it! It looks

eliza411's picture

You can plan on it! It looks like jnicola won't present before December, so you can either do a ten minute Modules 101 style or a full 30 minute presentation. Feel free to bring your own laptop. I've been encouraging people to have presentation material Web accessible to avoid long projector switches, but if the setup you need is on your laptop, that's perfectly fine.

I've never used the admin module, so I know I'm looking forward to hearing about your experience.

emptyvoid's picture

Ironically I also have a node reference / node relationships / modal dialog API / alternative to panels presentation that I presented at the Portland Drupal con last month. I felt like the presentation wasn't all it could be so perhaps I could present it again (this time actually having my dev environment work to show code examples).

That is if no one else has anything to present. The presentation is kind of for medium to advanced drupal developers. However I have several "work in progress" client sites setup on my laptop that I could show to non-developers. That way we can have a general discussion about the techniques with pros and cons.

Robert Foley Jr
Solutions Architect
http://www.robertfoleyjr.com

Any chance of pairing this

eliza411's picture

Any chance of pairing this presentation with jnicola's more introductory Contemplate alternative to Panels in December (as well as taking a look at the Admin module for November)? I sense an "alternatives to panels" theme coming on, and I like having a variety of technical levels at each meeting when we can.

No problem

emptyvoid's picture

No Prob, I will have it all on my laptop so if we have time I can present if not we can put it on hold. :)

Robert Foley Jr
Solutions Architect
http://www.robertfoleyjr.com

What about a new module?

dnotes's picture

I just wrote a module to allow Organic Groups administrators to choose content for their front page, and I'd love to give a demo of it and get some feedback before I submit it to CVS.

We'll have time to look at a

eliza411's picture

We'll have time to look at a new Organic Groups admin module during the November meeting, I'm sure. I look forward to it.

The Slate theme included with

mikey_p's picture

The Slate theme included with the Admin module does support disabling the hover links, by placing a one line value in YOUR theme's info file, not the file from Slate. I incorrectly reported that this wasn't possible at the meeting and wanted to clear that up. After seeing how Robert set up the theme/menus I retract some of my concern over the IA/UX of the Admin module, however I am still somewhat concerned about code structure and some of the problems that it could cause.

Also I was very interesting in some of the module that Robert was using on his site, specifically:

  1. The module that provided the alternate method for managing permissions, and allowed him to filter by each modules permissions
  2. The module that allows filtering the module listing page by name, to help you when you have a million modules listed there
  3. The module that gives you additional filters on the administer content form at admin/content/node

I'm also really impressed with Node Relationships module, and can't wait to start using it on new sites.