Welcome to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Drupal Group. This is the place to get involved with the Drupal community in the Twin Cities. Whether you're not even sure how to pronounce the word "Drupal", you're a core contributor to the Drupal project or you're somewhere in between, there's something happening locally for you.
We have several regular meetings each month:
- The main Twin Cities Drupal User Group (TCDUG) meeting is conducted in a presenter or roundtable format, and is sponsored by Advantage Labs. TCDUG meetings are held the 4th Wednesday of every month at 7 PM.
- One hour before the TCDUG meeting -- 4th Wednesday of every month at 6PM -- join the Twin Cities Drupal Commerce and Ubercart group to discuss Drupal e-commerce best-practices.
Both meetings take place at:
Advantage Labs @ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
mapThis is near the corner of Lake and Lyndale. There is parking in the lot to the right of the building (north side).
- If you'd prefer a more casual meetup, we have a longstanding Drupal Happy Hour on the 1st Thursday of the month starting at 5:30PM. We typically meet at The Blue Nile on East Franklin in Minneapolis. Look for the specific event announcement closer to the actual date each month for up to date details.
Catch us on IRC in #drupal-twin-cities on irc.freenode.net. Join us there to ask questions, propose ideas, socialize. Check out Drupal.org for more info about IRC and Drupal including how to start an account and connect. Or come to the next local meetup and someone can help you get started.
Community Lab Hours
Join us for Community Lab Hours Wednesday May 29th from 5-7PM at Intermedia Arts -- right before the TC Drupal meetup at 7PM.
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Theme trouble after Drupal 7 update
Hi all,
I'm updating a site from 6.23 to 7.22 for the first time in a while. Now that I've run the update, none of the 'out-of-the-box' themes seem to work. All the content is there, but none of the color, graphics, or correct fonts are used. (See attachment.)
I'm pretty sure I've run into this before, but I'm blanking on the resolution. Can someone jog my memory?
TIA!
May TC Drupal meetup May 29th -- 1-week later than usual
The Twin Cities Drupal April meetup will take place on May 29th -- 1 week later than usual. DrupalCon Portland is taking place the week of May 20th and many regular Twin City Drupalers will be participating. So, join us on May 29th for a DrupalCon wrap-up, lightning talks (yours?) and whatever you wish to ask or discuss. Oh, and don't forget there will be pizza. Feel free to bring enough of your favorite beverage to share and we'll see you then!
Read moreLooking for a Module or ideas for...
I run a local soccer club website: http://www.minneapolisunited.org/. Uses Drupal 6, but hope to switch it over soon to D7.
I have a little Playing Field notice in the upper right, a View with attachments displays a series of Playing Field Notice content type. These have radio buttons to select a status.
A View on the Front has attachments and rewrites some Fields using Replacement patterns, etc, to display the notice.
So when the games or whatever are rained-out, the Site editor would go in and edit the particular node and change the Radio selection to "Canceled".
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Drupal 6 Site Experiencing Extreme SPAM problems
On Friday I got a call from a local non-profit whose Drupal 6 site had suddenly crashed. I volunteered to try and help bring them online.
The site was generating an error that suggested a permissions problem with the database. The database for the site was also a bit larger than the allocated space provided by the ISP.
Read moreJune free Introduction to Drupal workshop
New to Drupal? Looking for a great way to prepare to get the most out of DrupalCamp Twin Cities coming up in July? Join us on Friday June 7, 2013 from 2-4PM for a free overview of the Drupal CMS and an introduction to best-practices strategies for using and developing Drupal sites.
Introduction to Drupal is a stand-alone, in-person workshop meant for anyone curious about Drupal and interested in learning how to approach Drupal in a sensible way. If you don't want to wait until June, we'll be running this workshop on Monday May 13th as well -- check out the separate event post.
Read moreMay free Introduction to Drupal workshop
Join us for an introduction to the Drupal CMS and best-practices strategies for using and developing Drupal sites on Monday May 13, 2013 from 2-4PM. Introduction to Drupal is a stand-alone, in-person workshop meant for anyone curious about Drupal and interested in learning how to approach Drupal in a sensible way. This is a great way to prepare to get the most out of DrupalCamp Twin Cities coming up in July. If you cannot make this date, we'll be running this workshop on June 7th as well -- check out the separate event post.
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May Drupal Happy Hour
Let's spend another month indoors, away from the weather and dream of summer and Drupal! Let's plan our travels to DrupalCon, that happens THIS MONTH. And Keri will tell us all about Twin Cities DrupalCamp.
The Blue Nile
2027 Franklin Ave. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
So much good stuff, how can you stay away? Great beer and ethnic food too!
No need to sign up, just show up!
Co-Working Friday
We're kicking off a new experiment of having a Co-working day on Fridays. Come join the Drupal community in a Google+ hangout of up to 10 people. We're mostly going to be working on our projects but can tolerate a distraction to "look over someone shoulder" to help someone out every now and then.
Come to work alongside other developers, but please don't be offended if folks leave to focus on getting their work done for the day.
Here's the link to join: (Google+ account required)
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/d788f46ae84f49051c0466ea31719ab75774d...
April 2013 Monthly TC Drupal Commerce Meeting
oops! Barry commented on the fact that I sent out a discussion post versus and event -- I was wondering why it did not ask me for the date?
So below is the notice again - as a good reminder to join us tomorrow evening, 6-7, before the regular user group meeting and during the last part of the new community labs
You have all seen Barry's note and know that this is the 4th week of the month which means User Group meetings on Wednesday.
Commerce starts at 6 pm and lasts for one hour - it is right before the regular TC Drupal user group meeting.
Read moreCommunity Lab Hours
Join us for our first Community Lab Hours session this Wednesday from 5-7PM at Intermedia Arts -- right before the TC Drupal meetup at 7PM.
Advantage Labs customers have been attending Lab Hours to get the most out of Drupal by working on their sites together. It's a great place to get questions answered, but it's also a great way to collaborate and share best practices with your peers. Site builders learn which modules can best serve their needs, site managers learn how to work with views and content types to make progress without outsourcing, and content managers swap tips and tools for fundraising, content strategy, and community management.
We're pleased to announce that we're extending free participation at Lab Hours to the local community one day per month, before our TCDrupal meeting. Attendance is free, but space is limited. Please let us know you're coming by describing what you'll be working on at our Community Lab Hours pad. We'll post a new event and pad each month.
We look forward to seeing you this Wednesday and every month.
Community Lab Hours
Wednesday April 24th 5-7PM
Advantage Labs @ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Working with content field values in a block
I am trying to create a block in Drupal7 that is taking information from the page that the block is displayed on.
Something like this:
Please request more information <a href="/webform/info?line=<taxonomy value>&prod=<content field value>">here</a>.
Where the "taxonomy value" is set as a value on the content type that was created. And the same goes for "content field value".
This will allow me to help pre-populate some fields on the linked webform by passing values through the url.
Read moreApril 2013 Monthly TC Drupal Commerce Meeting
You have all seen Barry's note and know that this is the 4th week of the month which means User Group meetings on Wednesday.
Commerce starts at 6 pm and lasts for one hour - it is right before the regular TC Drupal user group meeting.
Read moreTC Drupal meetup this Wednesday April 24th
The Twin Cities Drupal April meetup is this Wednesday, April 24th from 7-9PM at Intermedia Arts. With more snow on the way, sunny July seems impossibly far away. But it's not too early to be thinking about DrupalCamp Twin Cities. The camp website will be launched soon and with it session submissions will be opened. Our mission this year is to encourage a wide variety of sessions from an even wider variety of presenters. This means you! For this first 30 minutes or so of this month's meetup, veteran camp and DrupalCon presenter Joe Shindelar will be sharing some myth and anxiety-busting info about presenting. Join us for Joe's tips and inspiration.
And that's not all -- after Joe we'll be opening the meeting for our new frighteningly popular regular feature: lightning talks. This month, there'll be a twist. You'll have to join us to find out what that's all about. Just show up with a burning question, a problem you've solved (or needs solving), a site or module you love (or hate), an issue you'd like to hear others weigh in on -- whatever. We'll give you a brief platform to share and receive feedback. The more sharing, the more learning and inspiration.
Oh, and don't forget there will be pizza. Bring a beverage to share and the socialization will be that much better.
Read moreLocal Drupal Introductions/Connections
I see that there are 450 people listed as "members" of this online group. Last I checked the turn-out at local meet-ups and happy hours is a bit smaller. :-)
As an experiment, I'm starting this discussion as an opportunity for all local Drupal folks (including those who can't make the meetings) to:
1) Introduce themselves
2) Share something about their involvement in Drupal
3) ALSO - indicate what they are looking for in the Drupal community at this time (a little matchmaking).
examples:
* Looking for projects
* Looking for internship
* Looking for job
launching 7 site in godaddy
I inherited an existing Drupal 7 site in godaddy in the following path:
root (html folder name)
index.html
/temp
/cc
/.hcc.thumbs
/test/all the drupal folders
client placed it there so it would be test.example.com
hired me to make finalize changes and design of site within what they had.
they now want it moved out of there to the root folder and launched.
I moved the folders from with test to the main folder
renamed existing temp folder and moved the drupal temp folder
Drupal Core Sprint / Drupal Camp Website
Sorry for the last minute announcement.
Tess and I are planning to meet again on Saturday (April 13th) from 11:00am - 3:00pm at I Am Coffee on Lyndale to do some more work on Drupal CORE.
I'm also working on the 2013 Drupal Camp website and may use this time for that purpose. If anyone wants to join us to work on the website, they are welcome. (Keri may also announce an alternative time/location for working on the Drupal Camp website).
In short, anyone interested in either working on Drupal Core issues or the Drupal Camp website are welcome.
Read moreDisplaying Node Titles Depending on Content Type Node
I have two content types (product and case study). On the case study content type I have an entity reference to the product content type (the idea being that you can associate a case study to one or multiple products). Now I'm trying to setup a view (block) that will be placed in the sidebar of the product nodes. This view block will need to list case study node titles that have a reference to that product node.
I think I need to use Contextual Filters - but I'm not sure what settings I need - or maybe I need a relationship (too)? Any advice?
Topic Suggestions for Future TCDrupal Meetup or Camp presentations
If anyone is looking for something to do a presentation or lightning talk on at a future TC Drupal group meeting (or Drupal Camp), here are some things I'm interested in learning more about:
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Best practices for SPAM control - I've done the basics and am amazed at what is still getting through. I have yet to find time to research what I'm forgetting.
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Distributions - I've overlooked the option of Drupal Distributions in the past. Starting to wonder if I should look closer at them. When do they make the most sense?
Drupal Happy Hour
Another month, another Drupal Usergroup Happy Hour! We continue to organize our upcoming DrupalCamp Twin Cities, with a concurrent meeting of the planning committee.
The Blue Nile
2027 Franklin Ave. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Come out and meet up with fellow Drupalistas in a very relaxed environment. Great beer and ethnic food.
No need to sign up, just show up!
