Patterns

Hi ,

Our client is a media and publishing company focusing in B2B magazines and event management . This position will be a part of the Web Development team, and be responsible for development on websites owned by client.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist with requirements gathering, analysis and design
• Act as a key member of the development team for front-end activities for multiple projects.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and tasks effectively.
• Development using PHP (PHP5 preferred) on LAMP stack.

I have a field definition in a pattern:

- tag: field
type: event
field_name: location
label: Location
option: text
widget_type: text_textfield

It fails to import and returns with this error:

* Add new field: you need to select a field type.
* Add new field: you need to select a widget.
* Above error(s) occured while executing action #1 (CCK: Add Field or Group) in Events pattern. Error location(s) are: _add_new_field->type, _add_new_field->widget_type

I have tried with name rather than field_name and widget rather than widget_type too.

We are trying to integrate Patterns execution in our change management system based on Liquibase. It seems like the Patterns module only supports execution in GUI mode. Is there any way to execute them from command line or any API we can use to create a Drush extension?

Does the Configuration Framework try to cover these use cases? If so, what's its current development status and where should we start looking for more information?

Thanks a lot!

Esteban

Hopefully starting a discussion on modifying the patterns and/or patterns install profile to support installation via Aegir.

I spent quite a bit of time getting it almost working but have run into a few issues. Bringing it up so hopefully we can work through issues that I weren't clear to me.

1. Aegir runs install profiles without user input. So my plan was to add a "patterns"

I just downloaded a snapshot of the d6 devel code. The code for importing patterns seems to be there but I don't see a way to create patterns. There's not README file or any kind of documentation. hook_menu has a bunch of code commented out.

So unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a way to create patterns. Am I wrong on this? If I'm not wrong, do we have an idea of when this needed feature will be ready to use? I'd love to help test this module.

For today's BDUG (Berkeley Drupal User Group) meetup we had an open discussion about project management methodologies and tools, and layed out a basic plan for what a full featured project management system might look like in Drupal. I know many Drupal development shops each have their own tools for this, many developed internally on Drupal for specific needs.

This document is an initial rough outline, so feel free to suggest changes or other ideas for it.

Here is the wiki page:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/17288

And the original google doc:

I'm just going to get the conversation started here...

What patterns (or repeated tasks) would people be interested in seeing for Drupal? Remember, these are [XML-based] instructions that fellow users/developers can share or include with their modules or install profiles.

Here's some quick ideas:

• Developer site patterns
• Quick blog site settings
• Super simple site that has some common pages made with URL aliases like Contact (form or no form), About Us, etc.
• Video module related configurations
• Complete dump of a current site (to make local copies of a site)?

Again, I'm just trying to spark the conversation and this group would like to hear what Pattern(s) you would like to see or make.