Early OpenPublish 1.7 Preview

I'm wrapping up learning how to build modules -- still don't have a clue :P I was going to start rebuilding the site on the 1st of February. Should I wait until your done with 1.7 before I start?

I've been slow at helping you here. Do you still want the tutorial to this http://themes.myalbums.biz/content/upright50-free-theme on the front page of the site or have you been working on something else that might be better? I'd be happy to put it together in the next couple of days if it's still worth while for people at this point.

I will be doing a presentation on OP in Feb. at the Atlanta Drupal Users Group meeting. I'd LOVE to base it on 1.7. What's the rough estimate for 1.7 release?

And THANKS for the preview. Hopefully I can use it for the basis of my presentation.

it looks good, the 'kitchen sink' approach is good for seeing what it can do but i wish there was a packaging script + form or something for you to pick and choose the features you wanted before you downloaded the whole thing. it seems to me that it would be a pain to disable/remove things you don't want as is.

Has anyone else tried v1.7 that wants to give some feedback? There are lots of differences to this version (install profile, features, new functionality, etc.) so the feedback from this group is very helpful. Is it getting better? heading in the right direction, etc?

There are plans for more releases very soon so also a good chance to squash bugs and clean up things.

Jeff

After an error-free (or warning-free) installation, when I went to the Features tab, I got the following error.

I've installed OP1.7 locally with Xaamp Linux 1.7.1.
Php config:

max_execution_time = 600
max_input_time = 600
memory_limit = 92M

However, after I created some contents and visited the feature page, I found no errors.

I found the option to add "Author" to a node to be extremely useful. In OP 1.7, an author is also a registered user of the site, which to me a bit limiting. I would expect a more general term for author, say, "Sources". Sources are similar to author, but they could be anyone without being a registered user of the site.

IMO, the URL for author page should be with the username, not by the actual name. The reason is, the user might change him/her name (or screen name) and that will result in a broken link in search engines.

Are new releases going to require full installs?
Or can the be updated

i get that same error

I see a dev version of flickr which is interesting, where is that being used?

I'm using the Acquia Stack installer which worked fine for me with 1.6 and during install I received a ton of errors, but the install still completed. I am including some of the errors I am coming across. For instance, the following error messages (this is only a portion of the LOOOONG list of warnings) show up on the modules configuration page:

Just as preliminary praise... I did attempt to create an article and really like the additions. Scheduling, multiple authors, additional media are all great additions to the article node!

irakli mentioned that the upgrade will be documented for those of us who are going from 1.6. I'm just worried that I'll be pulling my hair out trying to keep my customizations intact.

I made an attempt to upgrade my site from 1.6 to 1.7 (in development server). The transition was not very smooth. Most importantly, the "Author" option is not functioning as it should be. Here is what I did

1. Copied the database and old drupal root to dev server
2. downloaded and extracted OP 1.7
3. Removed the /sites/default folder from OP1.7
4. Copied and replaced /sites with /sites of OP 1.7
5. Copied and replaced core files with Op 1.7

After doing this, the site was visible without any error or anything. However, the author and feature modules were not activated. I enabled them from modules page.

I tried to create an Author. It created an author but the author URL showed a blank page.

I created a blog and assigned that new author. The blog was created but does not show the author on front page. On node view, author name shows, but the "More about the author" is not showing at the bottom.

I just gave it a shot. But I understand that this is not the right way of an upgrade.

The developers would like to provide us with the functioning upgrade path from OP 1.6 to OP 1.7 (as mentioned in http://groups.drupal.org/node/47116#comment-122956 )

I did an update to 1.7 over the weekend, by just uploading it and letting it run...and that seemed to work pretty well. I went back and did a clean install anyway so I could see what was really new, and not something I'd added on.

Is there a list of new features somewhere?

I'd already put in scheduling on my 1.6, so I was pleased to see it here as well. The author field is great, as it was much needed.

I had no trouble creating an "author" but don't seem to be able to select it from the search option that's available when you're creating an article. I may be missing something.

Another oddity is that I'm getting duplicate listings of articles under the various main nav tab views. Each article is showing up twice, though it only occurs once. I thought running cron might cure it, but no dice.

So far 1.7 looks like a real step forward.

Ernest

Where do I go to change the terms that more like this flickr is pulling from? And the size of the images as well, since they're dropping into a 300px column?

Ernest

I would like to create individual views for each of the feeds I have so that I can put the views into different blocks / contexts. I notice in an individual article that at the bottom, the name of the feed source and a link to the feed node is given. When I am in Views looking at the "articles" view and the "Homepage Block", I cannot figure out how to use Filters to identify a specific feed.

I can see that this last line with the feed link is provided by the function called theme_links(), but I believe my area of focus is not how the function works, but how to use Views. If my thinking is correct, the article node must be storing the feed information, so somehow I am believing there must be a way to get access to that node information through Views.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Neil

On installation success page, I get the message: Installation successful you can now visit your site.

Upon visiting site for the first time I get this message:
warning: file_get_contents(sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/swfobject2/swfobject.js) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/openpub170/includes/locale.inc on line 1689.

I ignore the above message. Next time I visit the home page the error message does not appear.

Installation of OpenPublish 1.7 on MacOSX 10.4.11 running MAMP 1.8.4

When I go to edit content, I am presented with the Apture "Create Account" page, with no hints about what Apture is and whether I really need it or want it. (As long as it uses popups, I personally do not want it on my site.)

I would suggest you add some basic info about Apture on a "getting started page" so folks would know why this is popping up and how to disable Apture by disabling the module.

Apture is a great service, just not necessarily appropriate for every site.

Is there any reason I should choose Article vs. Feed Item when setting up an automatic feed? In glancing through the two content types, they seem to do the same thing (process a feed into nodes.)

I think this version 1.7 is a great improvement, by the way and I really like the direction you're going in with OpenPublish. Thanks for making it available.

Hi, I was just wondering why the Twitter Item Content Type was removed from v 1.7. I think I'm going to recreate it in my new site. Is it just a clone of the Feed Item? Is there a better way to get Twitter feeds into their own space on the home page?