Welcome to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Drupal Group -- the place to get involved with the Twin Cities Drupal community whether you're new, a core contributor to the Drupal project or somewhere in between. Register for the group to get posting privileges and to be notified of what's going on.
Looking to connect with other local friendly Drupal people? Check out the Events tab for a rundown of our regular meetups and other upcoming Drupal-related events.
You can also join your Drupal peers and mentors in a couple of places:
- Slack tends to be more active these days. Join https://tcdrupal.slack.com. If you need an invite go here to get an automatic invite to the Slack team
- IRC -- #drupal-twin-cities on irc.freenode.net -- to ask questions, propose ideas, socialize. Check out Drupal.org for more info about IRC and Drupal including how to create a new account and connect. Or come to the next local meetup and someone will help you get started.
TC Drupal Happy Hour
Come out for another Drupal Happy Hour. Informal gathering to meet up with fellow Drupal enthusiasts, everyone is welcome!
Blue Nile
2027 Franklin Ave. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
http://bluenilempls.com
No need to RSVP, just show up, and bring a friend!
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June 2012 Monthy Twin Cities Commerce Group Meeting
Hi there! Some people did not receive this - so sending it again
It is TCDrupal meeting night this week! As always, our commerce meeting will be the hour before the TCDrupal group meeting, from 6 to 7 pm (regular TCDrupal meeting is 7-9)
For this month, Tim Erickson has volunteered to talk about the following:
Displaying Images of your Products with Drupal Commerce
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June Meeting: Mozilla Persona
The June meeting of the Twin Cities Drupal User Group is almost upon us, and with it, a presentation on Mozilla Persona, a brand new cross-browser login system that promises to get rid of per-site passwords and make logging in to websites quicker, safer, and easier.
Dan Callahan of Mozilla will explain the concepts behind Persona, discuss how you can implement it on your site, and he will take a few deep dives into the machinery behind the scenes.
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August free Introduction to Drupal workshop
Looking for a great introduction to the Drupal CMS and best-practices strategies for using and developing Drupal sites? We invite you to attend our free Introduction to Drupal workshop on Thursday August 2, 2012 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.
Introduction to Drupal takes place at:
Advantage Labs @ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
July free Introduction to Drupal workshop
Looking for a great introduction to the Drupal CMS and best-practices strategies for using and developing Drupal sites? We invite you to attend our free Introduction to Drupal workshop on Friday July 20, 2012 from 2-4PM. Introduction to Drupal is a stand-alone, in-person workshop designed for anyone curious about Drupal and interested in learning how to approach Drupal in a sensible way. Weren't able to make it to the recent DrupalCamp Twin Cities? No worries -- join us for our workshop and you'll leave with an understanding of what Drupal is all about and how to start using it.
Introduction to Drupal takes place at:
Advantage Labs @ Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Visit the Introduction to Drupal workshop page on our site for full details and to register. Click on the “Register online” title in the right sidebar to fill out the registration form.
At this two-hour workshop we'll discuss:
- Basic Drupal structure, terminology and features
- Defining Drupal development team roles and responsibilities
- Outlining a Drupal site development process
- Finding and vetting Drupal developers
- Connecting with the Drupal community
- Finding local resources
This workshop is limited to 12 attendees. There will be plenty of time for questions. This is not a hands-on workshop; no computer is required.
Read moreSite Building with Drupal 7 class -- August 7-8
Looking to ramp up your Drupal site building skills? In two days, you will be brought up to speed on configuring Drupal websites utilizing Drupal 7. We combine presentation, demonstration and hands-on exercises. This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills.
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How do you get the user picture out of private messages
I am finding that even reasonably-sized pictures on a user's profile, when included in private messages obscure the text of the messages. I cannot find any way (through the settings interfaces) to make it so the user profile pic is NOT included in the private messages they send.
Does anyone know how I could get the user pics OUT of private messages sent?
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Drupal 6: views_embed_view() doesn't appear to be rendering
I recently edited a template file (node-training_class.tpl.php) for training classes on one of my Drupal 6 websites (http://www.helpsystems.com/services/training/robotschedule-operations).
This template file needs to embed a Block(Next Instance (Webinar)) that is being configured by a View (view: Upcoming_Class_Instances).
Here is my code:
<?php foreach($node->taxonomy as $term) { $class_type = $term->name; }
if ($class_type == "Webinar" || $class_type == "Free Online Training") {
print views_embed_view('Upcoming_Class_Instances', $display_id = 'block_2');
}
Drupal Camp Postmortem Notes
Below is the rough outline of what was discussed during the Twin Cites Drupal Camp planning committee wrap up phone call on June 13th, 2012. We are putting this up as a wiki for two reasons. 1) so that we as transparent as possible and 2) so others may become interested in helping out with planning for next years camp.
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Bullhorn Web Services APIs
Hello,
One of my web clients running a Drupal 6 website is using a new jobs database software program with a company called Bullhorn. http://www.bullhorn.com.
Has anybody worked with Bullhorn's APIs to post jobs from their Bullhorn database to their Drupal site?
I would be willing to hire an API developer to help with this process if necessary. They have sample codes to work with and a developer center.
http://developer.bullhorn.com.
Let me know if you have any experience with this or would be willing to freelance on this project.
Thank You,
Corey
Corey Gasman
Read moreDrupal Happy Hour
Time for another installment of the Twin Cities Drupal User Group Happy Hour! Come on down to the Blue Nile and talk Drupal with folks who understand what you are talking about. If you say nodes or entities, we will not make funny faces!
Blue Nile
2027 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
(612) 338-3000 · http://bluenilempls.com
No signups, just show-ups!
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Drupal Code Meetup - New Day
First let me apologize to anyone who's wondered what happened to the code meetups. I was traveling heavily march and april and was out of town about half the time. Then in May we had the TC Drupal Camp and I just wasn't able to organize one before the camp.
Now that things have calmed down, its time to code! I'm also changing the day to better suit my schedule, I selfish I know :)
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Bilingual English/Spanish Volunteers for Drupal online training project
We are preparing an English version of our Drupal training program and we are looking for bilingual English/Spanish people interested in translating (from Spanish to English) part of the materials, at the same time they get advanced Drupal training for free.
If you are interested or know somebody that could be, please fill in or share the form to contact us. More information at this URL:
http://www.forcontu.com/bilingual-volunteers
Read moreIf you want to make charts automatically from a Table in a Drupal page...
IF YOU LIKE the following auto-charting program: Shown working on:
http://mynichecomputing.org/drupal6/content/demo-auto-table-graphs-funct... and
the screen shoot of a similar auto-graphing page (this one with the Pie chart),
http://mynichecomputing.org/visualize/imageView.html
and if http://mynichecomputing.org/autoChartsDir.html and
http://mynichecomputing.org/autoChartsDir2.html make sense to you.
THEN
To make the program work on YOUR pages:
Download: http://mynichecomputing.org/shared/visualize.zip
and unzip it. Upload the resulting visualize folder to your
Want to add Easy pop-up 'tooltips' on Any Page?
Easiest way to have pop-up "tooltips" ANYWHERE.
Procedure to do it:
- Find the Drupal folder with your theme's .info file and
add stylesheets[all][] = mytooltip.css (under other similar lines) -
In Notepad (or any raw text editor) make the following file :
span.tooltip span {display:none;
}
span.tooltip:hover span
{
display:inline;
position:absolute;
background:#FFFF99;
border:1px solid silver;
color:maroon;
width:200px;
margin-top:20px;
margin-left:-5px;
font-size:smaller;
line-height:1em;
Planning post for attending Midwest Developer Summit
Last updated by cosmicdreams on Fri, 2012-05-25 14:21
On July 26-27 a bunch of Drupal developers are gathering next door in Wisconsin to sprint on Drupal 8 and it would be awesome to come and help out. That begs the question, how best to get there?
Carpool? Caravan? Teleport?
Well Teleporting isn't available yet (my spell-checker didn't even think it was a real word) so let's explore some options and find out what will work best.
Read moreMay TCDUG meetup: Getting Started with Drupal 8 Development
Still juiced from DrupalCamp and want to keep the momentum rolling? Or, miss DrupalCamp and want to get some of that Drupal energy flowing? Well, the TC Drupal Users Group meetup just happens to be taking place this Wednesday May 23rd at 7PM at Intermedia Arts.
Chris Weber of the Nerdery has generously volunteered to present this month. He will be reprising the topic of his 2012 DrupalCamp Twin Cities talk but, he says, with "improvements and fixes." It's an important topic and timely. Check out the full description on the 'camp site, but here's an enticing summary:
"Find out how easy it is to take part in the making of Drupal 8. Find the issues that interest you the most. Help review, write, and contribute patches. And most importantly help make Drupal awesome."
Of course there'll be refreshments -- hint: we have lots of leftovers from the 2012 TCDrupal opening night bash -- and plenty of time to network, socialize and get questions answered.
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Omega shop/individual to build edu homepage theme
The University of Northern Iowa will be looking for a Drupal shop/individual to build out an Omega theme for the homepage website in collaboration with another firm who has done user research and is contracted to do design work. This is probably going to be an RFP - if you're interested please contact me to be put on the list to be sent more details in the future: http://drupal.org/user/586386/contact
The institution is planning to use Omega for all Drupal 7 sites and most will be designed based upon this work for the homepage site.
Read moreAccessing View's field's content?
I have a Press Release content type setup. And now I'm working on creating a view to easily list out all press releases in one spot with the Title (linked to the article) and a Teaser. Here is the tricky part:
The Press Release content type has a field called press_type. Allowed values are "Internal" or "External" (required field).
If Internal is selected I want the title on the views page linked to the corresponding node/article.
Read moreMay 2012 TC Drupal Ecommerce & Ubercart Meeting
Yes, it's time once again for the Twin Cities Drupal Commerce and Ubercart meeting. For this month's topic, we will be setting up the checkout cart -- So read up on this and come prepared to participate!
http://www.drupalcommerce.org/node/356
http://commerceguys.com/blog/commerce-module-tuesday-commerce-checkout-p...
These meetings take place at
Advantage Labs at Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Please let us know if you plan on attending --
Look forward to seeing you there!
thanks!
