Spokane Drupal Group - February 8

Posted by jhodgdon on January 22, 2018 at 11:40pm

Start:

2018-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

jhodgdon

Event type:

User group meeting

We hope you can join us for the next meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group!

When: Thursday, February 8, 2018, 10 AM to noon
We meet on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday of most months at this time/location. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month).
Where: Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library. From the hallway, go into the library proper, past the checkout/information desk, take a right and you'll see the room on the right.

To be reminded, sign up!: To receive an email reminder closer to the date of the meeting, log in and click the "Sign up" button; log in and click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come. There's no obligation to come if you sign up (but we hope you will!). There's also no obligation to sign up in order to come (it's up to you if you want a reminder or not). However, the meeting could be canceled if the organizer isn't sure anyone is coming.
What: We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table and a laptop on a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
Who: Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!

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Meeting notes

Posted by jhodgdon on February 8, 2018 at 8:59pm

What we talked about today:

Upcoming Events:
- DrupalCon Nashville - April 9-13 https://events.drupal.org/nashville2018
- BADCamp - Berkeley CA - Oct 24-27 https://groups.drupal.org/node/518097
SVG programming with JavaScript - using the Snap library -- can use it to build a drawing program http://snapsvg.io/
Easy way to make animations: Google Web Designer -- https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
Mobile apps -- 3 ways to do it that Drupal can support:
- Could be just a web site that is mobile-friendly and looks like an app (mobile-friendly theme)
- Could be something that looks like an app but it is really just a web site -- one way to do that is to use phonegap project https://www.drupal.org/project/phonegap
- Could be a native mobile app that really is an app -- Drupal can supply data via web services, and the app can leverage all the native capabilities of the phone -- can use MIT App Inventor: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ or Construct2 https://www.scirra.com
- MIT app inventor -- kind of simple, made for kids, but can't get too advanced
- Construct2 -- made for creating games, way more advanced, has free version and paid version
Web services:
- Definition: A way for Drupal to provide data over the web
- In Drupal 8, the REST module is built-in to Core.
- In Drupal 7 there are several choices:
-- https://www.drupal.org/project/restws
-- https://www.drupal.org/project/services
Modules for carousels:
- Several in the group have experience with this one:
https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
- We came across: https://www.drupal.org/project/slick
Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit -- Shawn and Jennifer went last weekend
- Some of the session recordings worked and are available on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbrjPwaRcNSUngNfk-fO_A/videos
- The sessions can be found on the Summit web site, and most people should have uploaded their slides, and there should be videos embedded for the sessions that have them:
https://pnwdrupalsummit.org/2018
- At least watch the keynote:
https://pnwdrupalsummit.org/2018/sessions/keynote-drupal-9-and-backward-...
- An amusing talk about the Linux command line:
https://pnwdrupalsummit.org/2018/sessions/expecto-patronum-or-how-i-lear...
- Shawn really recommends watching this session on page speed -- which is really important because Google is going to use page load speed as a factor in its page rankings for search soon:
https://pnwdrupalsummit.org/2018/sessions/how-get-perfect-100-google-pag...
SimplyTest.me -- https://simplytest.me/
This is a way to test out Drupal and modules
Migrating to new Drupal versions:
- Drupal 6 or 7 to 8: You may be able to use the core Migrate system, but it will probably not completely work
- In principle you can migrate content-only, by using Views to export data and Feeds to import it, but Feeds really isn't working yet for Drupal 8
Drupal 8 philosophy: It is aimed at bigger web sites (think Sony instead of your community library). It is a framework for building web-based applications more than being simply a web site platform. Drupal 7 was more accessible for smaller web sites. Backdrop is trying to preserve that philosophy of being there for small to medium web sites. https://backdropcms.org/
Features -- a way to deploy configuration from development to staging to a live site. It works reasonably well in Drupal 7, but adds some complexity... may or may not be worth it. https://www.drupal.org/project/features
Context module -- allows you to set up "areas" (or contexts) of your site, and then have different "reactions" for each context. Reactions can include:
- Different block setups
- CSS classes on the body
- Even changing the theme
https://www.drupal.org/project/context -- looks like it has at least a Beta version for Drupal 8
- Some people like Panels for doing block layouts for different conditions -- https://www.drupal.org/project/panels
We talked about how to make collapsible sections of pages. One way is to use Mini Panels. Another way is https://www.drupal.org/project/views_accordion and Shawn says there is a very easy way to do it when editing content for a given page but he can't remember what it is right now...

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Info For Dianne

Posted by CProfessionals on February 8, 2018 at 9:59pm

First example:

I thought you might like this because it is 100% css related:
https://codepen.io/raubaca/pen/PZzpVe

let me know if you need any further information. (Still looking for my other solution)

More for Dianne

Posted by CProfessionals on February 8, 2018 at 10:28pm

Still not what I was looking for but similar:
https://www.drupal.org/project/jquery_ui_filter
https://www.drupal.org/project/jquery_plugin

So any theme that has these "libraries" (does not have to be module) will support that technology.

Last One

Posted by CProfessionals on February 8, 2018 at 10:32pm

Drupal core has accordions built in, but it is not always on:

USE:

Fieldset title

Fieldset description
Fieldset content

Adding functionality:

In HTML -

In Theme (Better) -
function bartik_preprocess_html(&$variables) {
drupal_add_js('misc/form.js');
drupal_add_js('misc/collapse.js');
}

Or you can add to the theme.info file....

Hope this helps. See you all next Month.

Use code tag

Posted by jhodgdon on February 9, 2018 at 3:35pm

You need to put the HTML code in your example into a CODE tag so that we can see the markup. :)

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Weird... if someone replies

Posted by CProfessionals on February 9, 2018 at 6:31pm

Weird... if someone replies to your post you can no longer edit it. How is this?

<fieldset class="collapsible collapsed"
<legend><span class="fieldset-legend"><a class="fieldset-title" href="#">
<span class="fieldset-legend-prefix element-invisible">Hide</span> Section Title</a><span class="summary"></span></span>
</legend>
<div class="fieldset-wrapper">Write Stuff</div>
</fieldset>

function bartik_preprocess_html(&$variables) {
drupal_add_js('misc/form.js');
drupal_add_js('misc/collapse.js');
}

FYI: Layout

Posted by CProfessionals on February 11, 2018 at 5:34am

FYI: Layout builder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvNs86-djhU

Put notes for March 8 Drupal

Posted by Momseekingbalance on March 12, 2018 at 2:56am

Put notes for March 8 Drupal Group meeting here. Deleting them and putting them under correct meeting.

Spokane Drupal Group - February 8

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Last One

Use code tag

Weird... if someone replies

FYI: Layout

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