Posted by RockSoup on June 20, 2011 at 4:40pm
Start:
2011-07-21 18:00 - 20:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Amazon South Lake Union Campus 421 Boren Ave N Seattle, WA 98109
421 Boren Ave N/426 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
Learn about Drupal and meet local Drupal enthusiasts. We meet from 6 pm until 7:30 pm. After the regular meeting, many of us walk together or drive to a local pub for socializing, snacking and further discussion.
Coworking will be a block away at Moka Coffee around 3:30pm.
Agenda
- Brief One Breath introductions
- Drupal Barn Raising Update
- PNW Drupal Summit Update
- Call for Drupal Clinic Planning Committee
- Bug Squashing - We will spend time helping people with Drupal issues they are having. Please add a comment below if you would like to have your issue looked at. This can be anything from "my pages are really slow" to "how do you install a module". We will select a few issues form the comments and walk through solving them. Bring your problems and take advantage of the friendly Drupal help.
Comments
Bug squashing suggestions
How to make it easy to do the "minor" Drupal updates (like from 6.2 to 6.3). I just did one of these, and it was a pain in the neck, a bit scary, and I had to remember to write a lot of things down first (like which modules were installed.) I used FTP, and there's got to be a better way...
Quick overview of the best way to use a local development environment, and migrate that to a live server environment
What is drush, and why would I want to use it?
Best way to control who can access which content on a site. Is it content access module, and if so, a quick overview of how to use it.
Drupal Updates
Updating via ftp is pretty basic.
Just leave your "sites" folder and (if you're using windows) your web.config file in place.
Then remove all other files to a new folder for temporary safe keeping and replace them with the new updated files.
Then go back to your site and run update.php.
I've done this probably 75 to 80 times without problems.
I have not yet had the "privilege" of upgrading from D6 to D7 though. I did have one site where I just recreated the theme from D6 to D7 and just copied over the content and recreated the views and content types. I figured a couple days of this would be less of a headache than possibly butchering a live site.
As for migrating to a live server, the biggest mistake I see made is forgetting to make sure the file directories are either the same or at least changed to point to the right location and with the right privileges. This can be especially finicky when doing multisites.
Content Access is a great module. Content is controlled via a menu tab on the content type. You'll see a very self evident and well laid out administrative page. At the bottom, you'll see a check box that allows you to enable this configuration for each individual node. This is a great option if you want to create a view of the nodes but want to limit who sees which ones. I use this all the time for some of the insurance company sites I have built and maintain. I use an accordion list on one page that everyone can view but agents and staff will see more content where permissions have been elevated to them by role.
Here is the CivicActions
Here is the CivicActions recommended directory structure I mentioned
http://civicactions.com/blog/2009/may/21/civicactions_recommended_direct...
http://GregoryHeller.com
Tabs From Today
http://www.aegirproject.org/
http://drupal.org/project/simpletest
http://drupal.org/project/blockify
http://drupal.org/project/menu_position
http://drupal.org/project/menu_block
http://drupal.org/project/variablecheck
http://drush.ws/
Dont forget
http://drupal.org/project/advagg
for those interested in the after meeting discussions
Writing Custom Views Handlers
There's a lot of examples/posts on line about how to write custom views handlers, most of them make sense once you know what your doing, but can leave you scratching your head if you don't.
After struggling for a while to shine some light into the "deep dark hole" of writing/extending views handlers I recently "got it" and I'd be happy to spend some time discussing it if anyone is interested.
I also have some code from the project I just finished up that is pretty easy to understand so we could walk through that as well.
Writing Custom Views Handlers
Dave - I'd love to see your project and hear you talk about this. I've barely delved into writing/extending Views handlers, but it's obviously very powerful.
Drupal Issues - newbie questions...
Would appreciate if someone could help me understand how to use these two modules on a website - "pay-per-node" and "userpoints". The use case I am working on is to have authenticate users pre-purchase a content type that he/she can create. The number of nodes that an authenticated user can create is limited to the number of nodes purchased earlier and the ability to track how many nodes are utilized and how many remain.
How to create a content type with dates where the weeks of the month / the month itself is the key-value and the content in the associated field is an integer type. The use case is a content type that can help a list of people to track their medical parameters, such as blood sugar levels, each day or each week... and the content type is a key-value pair type of a content where the date or the week or the month is a the key and the readings are the values referred too.. and every time someone creates a new content type... the date automatically updates the to next time the readings are due...
Is it possible to have a view of folks and then also add an editable COMMENTS section on the final view... the alternative I was also thinking was to use the WEBFORMS module... where in people send in their submissions, say of their effort data - as in project mgmt, and then we add more fields to each line item, either to add more fields... or to write comments...
Thanks for the help...
Slideshow Thumbnails - Resizing - Etc
Good afternoon!
I am in the middle of a project building a tabletop gaming company website, and i have hit a roadblock. I am using Drupal 6, and a Symphony theme called Alphorn. This comes with several pre-installed themes and a working slideshow out of the box.
To assist visually, you can view the current website here: http://soda.p2webhost.com
What i am looking to accomplish, is to add thumbnails inside the slideshow, and lower the width of the images to be displayed. I would also like the images to link to other areas of the website "Featured item etc".
The other task is to move the slideshow to the primary content block of the page, and have either slideshow navigation or the ability to click the circles to move from image to image.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance, or pay "hopefully affordable" for a bit of phone assistance setting these up. Thanks a TON in advance! Please email asap.
Ryan
p2webhosting@gmail.com
Co-Working
show up for co working, things might happen ;)
Would love to! I wanted to
Would love to! I wanted to make tonight's meeting but i have a 1 year old teething son with a 103 temp! When do people meet up next?
Looks like the Views Slideshow module
http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
See if you can't figure out how to use the ThumbnailHover option in the module instead of the SingleFrame, you may (or may not) get Thumbnails depending on the theme.
Just a quick look/response for you
Helpful! Getting closer
i messed around with that, and so far i think i'm getting closer. How would i change an existing slideshow from what i have, with something containing thumbnails to the right of the image? perhaps i'm just not seeing the options for it.
There should already be a
There should already be a slideshow if I read the theme's readme correctly, so you will just need to find the existing view, and next to the "Style: Slideshow" option in the view, theres a little gear you click and change the display from singleframe to thumbnail. You'll need CSS to get the thumnails to the right because theres no default to the right option, but thats not too complicated.
Heres an example of a views slideshow with thumbs:
http://www.olympicpeninsula.org/
Getting warmer
I made a test site to change without fear of destroying my work. Here's what i have so far: http://drupaltest.p2computing.com
I have thumbnails which is GREAT, but i can't make the viewed image larger than the thumbs. Also, i'd like the thumbnails to be to the right of the image. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Ryan