There is now a thriving Drupal community in Bristol.
Freelancers and developers from the many Drupal shops are regularly meeting up and sharing Drupal knowledge and experiences.
We're now meeting once a month, on the third Wednesday of the month.
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If you haven't come along to one of the meetups yet, or haven't come along in a while please do - the more the merrier.
Twitter feed for events, news, jobs etc.: http://twitter.com/drupalbristol
Slack channel: drupalinbristol.slack.com
Drupal Somerset Meet Up 022
Do you use Drupal to build websites or do you want to learn more about it and live in Somerset (UK)?...then why not come and meet other Drupal people at this free meet up?
Hands ON
The topic for this meet up is Distributions. We'll compare, choose, install, test and if time permits find out how to make a distibution.
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A good solution for a document management system
I'm looking to build a document mangement system that will hold ~5000 files amounting to about 80GB of storage. Has anyone got any recommendations for a suitable approach using Drupal?
Currently I've tried a few things...
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The document module, https://drupal.org/project/document
This doesn't appear to offer you much more than doing it yourself -
Filedepot. https://drupal.org/project/filedepot
Test automation
Hi, I have been asked to look at test automation for our Drupal 7 projects. I seem to remember from discussions over beers at the few meetups I've been to that some of you in this group may know a lot more than me about this topic. I've used Simpletest and written tests for modules but our aim is to work towards having a full regression test suite.
Any pointers welcome.
Cheers, Alfred
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Return of SWDUG!
Precedent are planning the return of South Wales Drupal User Group (SWDUG) in July with a meetup at our offices in Cardiff Bay. Dates that we're thinking of:
- 2nd/4th/5th July
- A day between the 8th-12th July
Happy to go with the popular vote. :)
If anyone would be interested in doing a talk for the first meetup, that would be great. All levels of Drupaler are welcome, and drinks and snacks will be provided.
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June Meetup
So, it's time to start planning the June meetup. It'll be on June 5th, starting at 6PM for the first talk at 7PM. Probably at the Golden Guinea depending on if we can find a nicer venue. I'll update & post on here once we've got a location confirmed. Please sign up if you're coming, so we know how badly we need more space!
In the meantime, we need to sort out some talks. Anyone like to volunteer?
Read moreRaiser's Edge
Hello all,
Does anyone have any experience integrating with Raisers Edge and Drupal - with, or without the API?
Cheers,
Jon
Read moreMay Meetup
So, the April meetup went pretty well, I thought. Let's have another one!
Despite the "function room" at The Golden Guinea being more of a "function cellar", I thought it worked alright. Hopefully it'll be warmer by May ;)
I've still got Jamie lined up to talk about CI, but if there's someone else who'd like to step up and give a talk on another subject too, that'd be great - please volunteer in the comments.
Location: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=The+Golden+Guinea,+Guinea+Street,+Bristol
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April meetup with new location and talks :)
Hey All,
Posting an official event node for the April meetup based on the discussion here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/286923
Location this month (and potentially onwards?) by popular demand will be the Golden Guinea
http://www.thegoldenguinea.co.uk/
http://goo.gl/maps/uA2ML
Topics suggested so far are:
- Continuous Integration (Ru has a volunteer to talk about this)
- Content editor experience (Rich S can talk a little about)
- Drupal ladder(s)
- Symfony in Drupal 8
Environment Agency hack day
Just seen and registered to go to this which might be of interest to some in this group:
http://www.envhack.com/en/posts/
April meetup proposal
Hi all,
Last night was my first night back to the group for a while (after living in South Wales for a couple of years, I'm back living in Bristol now) - was good to catch up with some people I haven't seen in a while and meet some new ones.
I was wondering how people felt about changing the format of the meetups a bit, to have a couple of short talks (or maybe a longer one), and then a social bit after?
This might require a new venue, so we can have a room and a projector, but I'm hoping we can keep it in a pub still.
Read moreDrupal Somerset Meet up 014
Hi there,
For you all in Somerset and its surrounding counties we have a meet up coming up on Thursday Mar 7th.
Drupal Camp London review
The weekend of March 2-3 saw the first ever Drupal Camp in London. With about 350 attendees, 48 sessions, 2 keynotes and several BoF sessions it was a big success. We'll look back at the camp and find out how people experienced it.
Drupal World Sprint Weekend 9 & 10 March
Sprints to improve Drupal take place in different parts around the world during this weekend. Drupal Somerset is taking part in the World Drupal Sprint which means two days of Drupal goodness in good old Somerset. Read more here.
Special Guest
March Meetup
Apologies for the short notice but here's the event for our regular meetup @ the Llandoger.
There will be lots to talk about as a large number of us are attending DrupalCamp London this weekend and the sessions look pretty interesting: http://2013.drupalcamplondon.co.uk/program/session-schedule
See you there if not before.
P.S. We have just reached 200 members in this group :)
Read moreDrupal Somerset Meet up 012
Hi there,
For you all in Somerset and its surrounding counties we have a meet up coming up on Thursday Feb 7th. This meet up looks to be a good one with three special guests joining us via Google Hangout.
Special Guests
Drupal Somerset Sprint Weekend Sat 9th & Sun 10th March Langport, UK #SprintWeekend
Sprints to improve Drupal take place in different parts around the world during this weekend. Drupal Somerset is taking part in the World Drupal Sprint which means two days of Drupal goodness in good old Somerset.
-- What is a Sprint? --
A sprint is a gathering of Drupal users where you work on outstanding Drupal Core issues in order to improve the software.
Read moreFebruary Meetup
Hey all,
It's that regular beer and Drupal night, seems like the Llandoger is the favoured venue at the moment so let's stick with that unless anyone would like to suggest an alternative.
I'd be keen to hear what people would like to get out of these meetups (other than drinking beer and Drupal chat) and whether we could do some more learning/knowledge sharing type activities. We've attempted presentations and stuff before but maybe something easier and simple to prepare would be more suitable, perhaps a topic or theme for the night?
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searching on List (integer) field for values greater than selection (drupal 7)
i'm working on a site for a real estate company which involves a search form.
i've got a view set up called search results and have set an exposed form (form in block) with a field to search Number of Bedrooms.
Its set up in content type as Search Number of Bedrooms field_search_number_of_bedrooms List (integer) Check boxes/radio buttons
with the following content
Content: 1|1 Bedroom 2|2 Bedrooms 3|3 Bedrooms 4|4 Bedrooms 5|5 Bedrooms 6|More than 5 Bedrooms
in my search filter i get the following Is one of Is all of Is none of Is empty (NULL) Is not empty (NOT NULL)
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Anyone using Maestro for workflow applications?
I am looking at replacing some internal applications with Drupal and require workflow elements unrelated to publishing content. This seems to be what Maestro brings to the table but it is unclear whether to use a custom form, a content type or a Webform. Does anyone have any experience of this module they'd care to share?
Many thanks in advance - looking forward to introducing myself at the next meetup!
Read moreDrupal Somerset Hands On
Hi there,
It's the third Thursday of the month and that means we are getting Hands On with Drupal again.
During this meet up we will start climbing the Drupal ladder from the very bottom so if you are new to Drupal this is your time to get on board! (http://drupalladder.org). More advanced material will be covered during the "SASS 101" presentation/workshop by @dix_huit.
Never been to our meet ups?
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High traffic Drupal Forum example sites?
Anbody know of examples of sites hosting large Forums on Drupal especially Drupal 7?
Granted Drupal may not be the initial first choice for a Forum, but tightly integrated with other aspect of the CMS etc. there are potential advantages.
Besides I am currently looking at a very large forum implemented on a site in Drupal 6. It is struggling but for many reasons not directly related to what it set out to achieve (infrastructure a major culprit).
Read moreExposing field values from a content type into a search field
Hi
I'm working on a site in D7 for an estate agent which uses view with exposed filters to create a site wide search.
One of the fields in my search is for location, searching across the various town entered in each property.What I'm am trying to do is to automatically populate the location field in my search as a select list from the unique values entered in the property content type so that we only allow searching on locations that have properties within them.
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