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Posted by kristen pol on February 28, 2011 at 7:55am

Hi all,

I'm signed up for talking about Features and Panels this Tuesday. Unfortunately I won't have time to "prepare" so it will be by the seat of my pants. If you prefer a more prepared presentation, I could present these at the April meeting instead, but then someone would need to step in for this Tuesday's meeting and present something. Anyone interested? Thoughts?

Kristen

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Panel Discussion

Posted by dropmaker (not verified) on March 1, 2011 at 3:57pm
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I'm interested. Looking forward to it, even if it is more free flowing . . .

Tom

Followup

Posted by kristen pol on March 2, 2011 at 6:32pm
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Just an fyi to those who came last night...

I showed you in panels that I had set up several variants where each variant was just one particular node view page (e.g. the FAQ page or the Speakers page). That is one way to handle it. Instead, I could have done the following:

  • added one variant to handle several pages
  • in the variant added in all the page-specific content/block/etc in the panel (e.g. the FAQs view for the FAQ page, the Speakers view for the Speaker page)
  • for each of those panes, use the visibility rules so that the pane only shows up for the page I want it to show up on (e.g. FAQ view pane only shows up on FAQ page, etc.)

So, you don't have to have a ton of variants, you can have just one variant with lots of visibility rules set. It's possible that has better performance. I don't know. I had split mine out to be per page or per similar pages for clarity but I will probably research that a bit to decide if I should collapse down some of the variants and use the pane visibility rules instead.

Cheers!
Kristen

Thanks Kristen! The way you

Posted by juliavdw on March 3, 2011 at 3:06am
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Thanks Kristen! The way you had your site set up and the suggestions you make here I think are superior to the method I used when I used Panels in sites two years ago. Now after having given it some time off, I am inspired to use it again. Fun! :)

-- Julia v.

http://www.pfvdw.com

Cool

Posted by kristen pol on March 3, 2011 at 9:37pm
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I would definitely use it again ;)

Kristen

Especially interested in

Posted by juliavdw on March 1, 2011 at 8:19pm
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Especially interested in Features! :)

-- Julia v.

http://www.pfvdw.com

Thanks!

Posted by darrylri on March 2, 2011 at 2:03pm
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I very much appreciate your taking the time to educate us!

--Darryl Richman
http://darryl.crafty-fox.com

And, thanks again!

Posted by darrylri on March 11, 2011 at 3:09pm
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Kristen, your talk on how to use Panel variants has just helped me out, so I wanted to thank you again for presenting.

My club (the Vintage BMW Motorcycle Owners, www.vintagebmw.org) is going to be putting their quarterly magazine online, but we only want to make it available to members. We would like to display a sample magazine to everyone else. Building the page as a panel, I was able to create a variant with access by the current member role to display the full, current magazine. The default variant displays the sample instead, with some exhorting to join the club to see the full magazine.

This was an easy and flexible solution!

--Darryl Richman
http://darryl.crafty-fox.com

Excellent!

Posted by kristen pol on March 11, 2011 at 7:33pm
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Glad it helped... :)

Kristen

Santa Cruz

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