Posted by flavor on November 18, 2008 at 7:31pm
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2008-12-08 18:00 - 20:00 US/Pacific Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Ok this is the last SF Drupal users group meeting of the 2008! Cannot believe the year is already over.
I am looking for suggestions on this meetup. Send me email john.faber@af83.com if you have something you would like to discuss or present.
A suggestion I got from the last meet-up was Unbercart and Ecommerce on drupal. If someone has a good project they would like to present let me know.
We will meet here at ParisSoma 1436 Howard Street, which is 10th and Howard. We will provide beers, if anyone wants to bring some food for the group that would be more than welcome.
We could just make it a Lighting Talks Session - input on this is welcome.
Stay tuned as this meet-up topic develops.
Hope to see you there!
John
AF83
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Love to hear more about Ubercart.
Count me in and I can bring a few cheeseboard pizzas!
Thanks!
Joel
http://www.the-ma.com
Thanks!
Joel
http://www.archebyte.com
Our group is growing size
Our group is growing size and we are still looking for input on a good topic - if we do not get anything we will stick with our Lightning Talks format.
Go a head speak up!
Count me in, I need to mark my calendar
First timer, so not sure I want to set the tone of discussion. However, here is a list of things that I generally would enjoy discussing in case anyone is interested:
1) Document Management in Drupal
2) Project Management in Drupal
3) Worfklow
4) Display Name replacing User Name
5) Coding tips
I have coded a few modules, but am still waiting on CVS access due to my code having to be polished up, but I'm definitely up for sharing those if anyone needs a module for publishing nodes to an FTP server, for creating a diff token of the latest revision change in order to send out in messages, and for customizing the comment form.
Heres hoping I don't forget about this before the meetup,
Kevin
Drupal evangelist.
www.CoderintheRye.com
Newbie guidance required...
I am a first timer too and have been trying to gain coding experience with some projects of personal interest to me. I am interested in learning tips on how best to approach various issues, like when to know to modify a template, when to modify code, how to evalute whether Drupal 5 or 6 is the better version to recommend to someone looking to build a website, and so on. I don't know what the best way to structure an agenda for a newbie introduction might be, maybe that's something we can have a meta discussion about :)
I also find that there isn't a short tutorial like introduction on the Web to help someone visualize what all the pieces in Drupal look like and how to navigate around them. Pro Drupal Development seems like a good text book to start on, but it's also a little disjointed in its pedagogical style, I find, and more importantly, it's not collaborative, online and open sourced (in content, not code.) Is there such a document out there, or are there folks interested in helping me create one? I've started writing something I can share at the DUG.
Looking forward to it!
Sameer.
Let get some thoughts down
Let get some thoughts down on a topic or I will assume people are good with lightning talks about their drupal experience in 2008. These group meetings are what you make them.
Look forward to seeing you all!
This will be the first one I have come to
I am looking forward to it!
I have a bunch of questions on:
OG_panels- is there context?
ecommerce vs ubercart- how do I setup membership tiers and subscriptions
workflow-ng vs workflow + actions- how to use it and which will be in Drupal 6?
See you tonight!
Anietie Ekanem
Social Niche Guru Inc.
http://SocialNicheGuru.com
http://facebook.com/SocialNicheGuru
Rules module
In terms of Workflow-ng and workflow you might want to have a look at the successor to Workflow called Rules:
http://drupal.org/project/rules
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not a replacement for Workflow, I don't think.
My understanding is that the Workflow module people thought "workflow-ng" was a bad name, because it doesn't actually do the same things. Its more an improvement to triggers and actions, whereas workflow associates a state with each node (and can trigger things on state changes).
Correct me if I'm wrong, cause I haven't actually used workflow-ng or rules.
Yes, that correct. It should
Yes, that correct. It should have said "successor to Workflow-ng."
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Ubercart & QuickBooks
I'd be happy to talk some about Ubercart as well as QuickBooks integration. We done a few Ubercart integrations including http://fleurville.com and http://diadiwan.com and also setup integration with Quickbooks to sync orders up.
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Representing Deep Heirarchies and Complex Relationships
I'd love to hear about best practices in design considerations for data/object models with many levels of nested relationships.
For instance, say my primary content type is a "Proposal". It has a number of potential attributes that go beyond Title and Teaser, such as
Each of these attributes has some meta data such as "Published or not", Access rules,, %Complete.
Some of these attributes are complex, such as Inplementation Plan. It's comprised of Steps, each with content and meta attributes.
Some of these attributes don't really have content or metadata, but are collections, such as Potential Outcomes, which each do have content and meta-data.
Finally, we need to, say, store associations and activities between these Proposals and various actors such as Vendors, Sponsors, Whateverers.
Building a relational database that represents all of this and then building the SQL to make it all happen is pretty straightforward in that the main decisions are pure logical data modeling considerations and then performance constraints.
However, with nodes, and content types, and CCK, and views, and contributed modules, and taxonomy - the choices are almost overwhelming. How do y'all go through the process of architecting this in Drupal?
Thanks
Raj