Posted by yoroy on September 18, 2008 at 10:51am
We're gathering people and resources to work on a better user experience for Drupal 7 in a more structured process
For that we'd like to see a couple of things happen;
- Can we have book nodes? we need to collect/group multiple posts into 1 topic. wikis are not really working for us there.
- a full html input format so we can embed flash, videos, presentations etc directly into a post instead of linking to it. Probably needs some restrictions, maybe only for the book nodes?
- Please remove the 'jobs' nodetype. We'd like this to be a working group only.
Hope to hear what's possible or if more info is needed. Thank you!
Comments
I'd like for you to use
I'd like for you to use the group specific vocabularies feature instead. An admin can create vocabs at http://groups.drupal.org/node/417/og/vocab. Then populate those with terms and tag your content accordingly. Then you can make topic specific views and blocks. See tghe 'group categories' block in this maintainence group for a simple example.
Yeah, I've been wanting this for all groups. What about using embedded media field? Or Jquery media if we are willing to host the media right on these servers - we need to ask infra team if that is OK.
I have to make a proper solution for this in OG. It is on the short term todo list.
Ah, that makes sense, will
Thanks for the quick response!
Can this play a role
RE: 3, which seems to imply different content types used in different types of groups -- if this patch can be of use, let us know -- we'd be glad to continue our work on this: http://drupal.org/node/192933
Cheers,
Bill
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Tools for Teachers
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Ah, thats an oldie but
Ah, thats an oldie but goodie. As you can see, I'm still quite conflicted on how to deal with these sorts of preferences. I need some therapy or something.
Yeah --
That patch is like fine wine -- it gets better with age.
All kidding aside, if you want to move in this direction, we're glad to put some hours into it -- we've also done some work on customizing group blocks to make them customizable -- this doesn't require the patch in the queue, but with that patch in place we could go even further with customizing these blocks -- right now, we have it set to be pretty granular based on group type, with the ability to customize items in group blocks using the menu system, and output those menus as drop-downs using the Jump module.
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Tools for Teachers
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Node Type for posting images?
The usability group could use a way of posting images/mock ups without every mockup entering into the river of news.
I'm thinking of every post in that node type allowing only an image in the post with commenting used for describing the image/mockup/illustration. This could allow for that node type to have an RSS feed of only images since the first post is strictly an image.
The node type would not publish onto the river of news but instead update itself on a mini-panel dedicated to pulling in that node type's RSS Feed.
A taxonomy only solution could be used for separating posts with images but I'm not certain how it would work in an RSS Feed that's fed into a mini panel and how newer images in the thread would automatically float to the top of the RSS feed. Keeping the node type out of the normal river of news would also allows for authors to more frequently post new images as new posts (instead of using comments to update the mockup) as the river of news would stay unaffected and mock ups would not drown out other posts in the usual river of news.
I'm pretty sure you can
I'm pretty sure you can control the contents of the river of news and additional lists using the OG Panels features. if you are an admin of a group, click on the Pages tab in the group ... Let me know if tweaks are needed.
emfield is really needed on G.D.O/usability
I've got a screencast I need to upload, but can't. Any chance we can get that mod?
Agreed
Moshe, I forgot about this request, but the need for embedding mediafiles is still there. Can we haz emfield please?
How about Embed filter?
How about Embed filter? I avoid input filters when I can but I recommend this one (again). While being written with security in mind, Embed filter actually works the way end users expect when embedding media.
Great - except it is
Great - except it is abandoned. No commits since 2007. If anyone will port it to d6 and commit that, i'll feel better running it here. An input filter can't easily be removed from a site once you start using it.
Video filter
http://drupal.org/project/video_filter
Does anyone want to revisit
Does anyone want to revisit this? I realize this is an old discussion, but Embed filter has KarenS as its new maintainer and there is now a D6 version.