triDUG

Our mission is to connect Drupal users in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and surrounding areas. We get together monthly for presentations, site demonstrations, and hack nights. Our goal is to help new Drupal users get up to speed, foster the development of existing Drupal designers and Developers, and contribute to the larger Drupal community. The Research Triangle has a big concentration of technical folks, universities, and start-ups and we want to expose as many people as possible to Drupal and all that it offers.

Propose a meeting topic here.
Find us on IRC at #drupal-nc and on Twitter at TriDUG

afreeman's picture

Getting help with Drupal

Sorry it took so long for me to post this up. Busy busy busy.

http://www.centurionwebdev.com/content/how-get-help-drupal

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Branjawn's picture

Anyone use Messaging and Notifications successfully?

So, I've given myself (and spared you) three days to try and get this to work. Didn't happen.

I created a Custom Subscription (Node Type: Announcement) and cannot get it to send email OR queue. I can subscribe to content types, like Page, Story, etc. I have a custom content type, Announcement, that I want people to be able to subscribe to. Any ideas of why this isn't working or what I can do to troubleshoot?

Like I said, I've spent three days reading threads, tinkering, checking this and unchecking that, nada. Oh, and this framework doesn't provide much in the way of log entries :\

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Hack Night Prep

For this Wednesday's Hack Night (18th), I'm going to demo my patch creation and review workflow, and there are some things you can bring or set up early to improve your experience. This should also apply to future hack nights as well.

At the start of the meeting (and later as needed), we can help people set up testing environments, but whatever you can do ahead of time will help.

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Branjawn's picture

Notifications / Newsletter / Non-users

I can't seem to think this thru all the way, so I'm looking for some input from the community.

Our church currently uses a raw email list to send emails (ranging from daily announcements, which i find very annoying, to monthly newsletter). How can I incorporate these emails, subscribe them to newsletters, announcements, etc, without them being active users? Many of them will never access the website.

The most dirty solution is to import the emails, create users, subscribe them en masse.

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List of Files page in Drupal

I'm working on relaunching a website in Drupal and want to get some feedback on the best way to handle something. The existing site has a Newsletters page listing PDFs of all newsletters we've sent out over the years (http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/newsletters.html). What's the best way to handle this in Drupal? I'm thinking of using the File Node module and creating a content type for the newsletters, then using a View to pull them all into a page.

Does that make sense? Is there a better way to handle this?

Thanks!
--[Lance]

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Kyle Skrinak's picture

Getting the Taxonomy Term as an argument for a view

Using Drupal 6.14; Views 2 6.x-2.7

I have defined documents that are related by taxonomy. For example there's a location hierarchy (with a doctype def at the root):

region-1
--Bladen
--Clinton
--Dunn
region-2
--Orange
--Chatham
Project-Description

So, a region's page will have a region assignment; i.e., "orange"
Meanwhile, the project description, which will apply to several regions, will have the following taxonomy:
Project-Description, Orange, Clinton

Finally, the overview page for that region will have one term, the region assignment, i.e., "Orange"

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Branjawn's picture

Something I learned today

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While theming and developing today I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and found that my site had no styles! Ahhh! To save you from possible headaches, here's my finding: IE limits Drupal to 31 stylesheets total. The work-around for the bug is to enable CSS aggregation.

Many modules have their own stylesheets, so when you get to a certain number of modules, plus have your own custom theme, you reach a point like I did today where you pass the threshold. Hope this helps someone!!

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kostajh's picture

Organizing and Scheduling Content

I maintain a Drupal newspaper website and we're looking to improve the process for soliciting and publishing articles. The goals are to consolidate the process and make things more efficient for editors and authors to collaborate, as well as to provide some organizational tools to map out when articles will be published over the coming weeks or month.

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mrconnerton's picture

Drive to drupal camp austin

I was curious if anyone from NC / SC / East coast was interested or heading out to Drupal Camp Austin? It's only $40 to attend 2 days next weekend, but the trip is about 19 hours for us.

Would anyone be interested in saving some money and car pooling down and back? I would love to go but don't have a reliable vehicle to make the trip. I live in Asheville, NC.

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JuliaKM's picture

Presentation Topics

Please propose presentation topics below.

Drupal Forums: How to implement non-standard functionality
Understanding and Using CTools
Drupal + Version Control: Setting up a development, stage, and live environment and a release process
Using the Features Module to Build Reusable Sites
Writing an external authentication module
Using Apache Solr
Creating a mobile version of your site
Setting up Aegir for a large Drupal installation
Using Drush to Update Modules and Other Cool Tricks
Drupal Debugging - How to use XDebug

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Charlotte Resources?

Hello North Carolina!
I'm just getting into drupal development and I haven't found much in the way of local resources or meetups in my area (Charlotte NC).
Do I need to drive 2.5 hours to the triDUG users group in Cary to get myself started? They seem to be the most active group.
Would appreciate any leads you all might have. Also looking for training in NC or the South East, if you have suggestions. Thanks!

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gallamine's picture

Discussion regarding changes to Hack Nights

I think there should be a specific topic for discussing the changes to the hack nights. I understand the desire to contribute back to the Drupal project, and I think it's definitely worthwhile. But, I think there are plenty of people like me who really appreciated knowing that there was a place we could go to and get face-to-face help with problems. That seems to be the traditional view of "hack nights".

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Sheena Donnelly's picture

triDUG Hack Night

Start: 
2009-11-18 18:30 - 21:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 

Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Coalmarch Productions - Google Map

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Branjawn's picture

Need to Vent

Instead of actually accomplishing things the past week I've been trying to debug... Drupal, my install, MySQL. I literally spend ALL day working (not for pay) on this.

Cron will not run. It fails indefinitely.
I finally got one install (I duplicated my site on another server, with the same error) to work by uninstalling getID module. So I go to the other install and do the same thing, nothing.

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Sheena Donnelly's picture

Open Call for triDUG Volunteers

Hello triDUGgers!

This is an open recruitment call to everyone in the group. We are looking for some volunteers to become Moderators for the monthly triDUG Meetups and the bi-weekly Hack Nights.

General qualifications for being a Moderator are: Journeyman or higher Drupal skill level, experience with participating in the Drupal Community through IRC, g.d.o or Drupal.org Issue Queues, a desire to contribute back to the Drupal Project and previous attendance for at least one triDUG event.

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hallman's picture

Access problem with image gallery

Something is screwy with image gallery since I upgraded from Drupal 5 to 6. I only use image galleries on one site, huntresses.org, which is a family site. Anonymous users aren't supposed to see any content. I use front page to say that you have to register. When I upgraded from 5 to 6, the Images menu item started showing on huntresses.org for anonymous. It is the only item in the menu. Originally it let me click through the galleries and it would display the full images (the nodes). Now the images show in the galleries but the image nodes are no longer displayed. So I've made some progress.

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rubyji's picture

Help! How to stop "backlinkers?"

Hi folks, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions because we're at the end of our rope! The web site I manage has been hit with a flood of new user registrations that are NOT people authentically trying to join our community. Since this started on October 1st, we have been getting approximately 10 new users per hour, 24-7. The IP addresses are almost always unique and the profile information is different each time, sometimes with spammy links, sometimes not.

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hallman's picture

How to set notifications for new users

I'm trying to switch from the notify module to notifications. I would like new users to have as default settings to receive notifications of creation, update, and comments for content types events, forums, and book pages (I call book pages "resource items"). I don't see a way to do this. New users don't have any subscriptions. They have to set each one.

With the notify module, in notify.module, there's code for inserting a new user and I've been able to modify it to:


at case 'insert':
if (isset($edit['notify_decision']) && $edit['notify_decision'] == 1){

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gallamine's picture

Anyone have Drupal 6 SEO book?

Has anyone bought/read Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization, yet? (http://www.amazon.com/Drupal-6-Search-Engine-Optimization/dp/1847198228/...) I'd like to read it, but I didn't want to pay $40.

I can trade Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting for a bit if someone is willing to lend it.
Thanks.

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Best Drupal Book for Content Managers

Hello - I've seen a number of book reviews in various Drupal groups... most (if not all) focus on applicability for developers. Are there any books that would be most ideal for content managers of pre-existing Drupal sites? Basic how-to, navigation, terminology, etc? A supplemental training aid for those non-technical folks who manage the day-to-day content management.

Thanks for your input.

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