Berkeley Drupal Users Group
WHEN: 12-1:30pm
WHERE: UC Berkeley Campus: Barrows Hall 60 (basement room)
MAP: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley/map
Our last two meetings have focused on more technical Drupal topics
(Debugging with Eclipse and using CAS and LDAP). This month we're
breaking it down to some powerful Drupal basics: The Views module
(http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/views). Michelle Ziegmann
gives a great presentation on views, which will be of interest to both
new Drupal users and people who have created a few views in Drupal but
want to go deeper.
From Michelle:
Views is one of the most powerful modules for building a Drupal site,
and once you tackle the basics, the applications are limited only by
your imagination. I will show several use cases where Views was used to
create a customized display of site content, users or other activity,
and cover step by step how to build each View.
The Feeds module is the emerging standard for importing content or users
into your site. Whether importing from an uploaded spreadsheet, or from
an RSS, XML or JSON feed, Feeds is the module of choice. I will cover a
few scenarios, including importing from a CSV, RSS feed, and XML feed,
demonstrating step by step how to build the importer.
Upcoming Meeting:
8/23: Andre Angelantoni on Apache Solr, a powerful replacement for
Drupal's out-of-the-box search functionality
-- Brian Wood Applications Programmer UC Berkeley IST Application Services
Comments
Videos of events
Hi Brian. Thanks for this! Unfortunately, I cannot attend at that time. I'm wondering if you all post videos or screencasts of your events?
--Tim
Sorry we don't have the
Sorry we don't have the resources to do video for these meetings.
suggestions
Hi guys,
Thanks again for organizing such amazing and informative meeting. Along the line of talking about View module and Feeds module, is it possible to cover the argument and relationship in the View module. Excuse me for my ignorance, but I have no idea how they work. As for the Feeds module, if the feed contains an article and an image, is there way to import both in a standardized manner so all feeds imported look the same.
I would really appreciate it if the speaker can go over these topics.
Thanks a ton
Byron
Yes and yes
I'll definitely be covering relationships and arguments. Relationships I've mastered pretty well, so should be able to give a few examples of this. For arguments, I get the concept and can pull it off in most circumstances, but they have a tendency to give me a harder time, especially when it comes to taxonomy terms. But I can plan to show some examples of using views with term and date arguments.
Regards importing images with Feeds, in my experience this won't work for RSS feeds. I'm not the most knowledgeable about RSS feeds, but I don't believe image is an element that can be defined separately from the body of the article. Instead, it's usually just embedded in the html in the . In this case Feeds will import the html as it appears in the feed and the image will appear as the author created it (the image isn't actually imported either, it just references the image from it's source).
But if the image is a separate element in the feed (like can be done with XML or JSON feeds), Feeds will import the image into a custom image field in your own content type, and then you can render it however you want to.
There are probably others on this list who know more about this than I, so feel free to offer your ideas!
Michelle