Posted by ultimike on March 1, 2012 at 3:54pm
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2012-03-08 18:30 - 20:30 America/New_York Event type:
User group meeting
Join us on Thursday evening, March 8th at 6:30pm for the latest installment of the Brevard Drupal Meetup Series, 2nd Edition. The main topic for this meetup will be the second half of the "Top 25 modules" discussion we started at the February 16 meetup:
- Discussion of "Jay's Top 50 Drupal 7 Modules" (http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/jays-top-50-drupal-7-modules)
As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
The meetup will take place at The Porcher House in Cocoa Village. You're welcome to bring food and drink to the meetup, but please be respectful and leave the venue cleaner than we found it.
Please use the signup functionality below so we have an idea about how many people to expect.

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Finding Drupal Modules Made Easy!
Just letting everyone know that there's a better way to search for Drupal modules than by going to Drupal.org site and using the search window. I'm talking about the Drupal Modules site. Not only does it allow you to search, but has a more convenient way to search by categories, versions, titles; etc. Also, when you run a search, all of the listed modules will have a ratings list to them as to their Features, Reliability, Ease of Use, and Documentation.
For example, I wanted to search for date modules, so, in the image below, I brought up the Drupal Modules site and selected 7.x in the Version drop-down window and just entered the first two letters "da" in the Title window and the Date module is brought to the top, followed by Calendar, and so on. If I had finished typing "date", it would have still listed Date at the top (most relevant), but given me a completely different listing.
Once I clicked on Date, it gives me some great info of the module -- what the ratings are, an overview of the module, the latest downloads, and reviews of the module
The purpose of this post is to show you a great way to bring up the Top 50 modules we are reviewing, and to see how they rate, and the reviews written about them, so as to give you a better idea about them.
Thank god. Something besides
Thank god. Something besides that horrible Drupal.org modules search that doesn't even filter correctly.
D_Meetup Mar 8th
I plan to be there!
I'll be there.
I'll be there.
Memorial
Unfortunately, I will be attending a memorial for the passing of a friend and my former manager who hired me out at Kennedy Space Center, so won't be able to make it.
giveaway
I have a copy of Emma Jane's "Drupal User's Guide" (http://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Users-Guide-Drupal-Powered-ebook/dp/B005N8AGHG) to give away at this meetup (Thanks Don V!)
The first person to teach everyone (including Ben and I) a new Drupal tip or trick wins it...
-mike
Drupal Modules
Well, I can't make it to the meetup tonight due to the Memorial, but I would like to state that I had submitted Drupal Modules for this next meetup, so hope that counts as a new Drupal tip or trick!
DRUPAL TIP
I'd love to attend remotely. But, alas, no remote option for this meetup. But, here is my tip anyway!
DRUPAL TIP:
I add a Block to display only on the Available Updates page for notes about patches, module incompatabilities, or update warnings.
No file attach? Okay, no screenshot for you!
Tyme
Awesome Tip!
Greta, totally going to use this idea and even expand on it. Could add blocks to all kinds of admin pages for notes about settings, gotchas, etc. Almost self-documenting Drupal, love it!!
JCL
Yep, that is what I do. I
Yep, that is what I do. I work mostly with nonprofits, so they need to be able to manage their own sites.
Since you can enable blocks only for certain roles and/or content types, you can add these cheat-sheet blocks for all kinds of things just for staff! ...editorial workflow; How To WYSIWYG instructions -- like for the cumbersome embed image; etc. Great on sidebar, especially node edit form, where some prudent UI is lacking.
It sounds like the Sticky
It sounds like the Sticky Notes module would work well for this concept too.
Cool Aid
See also: Cool Aid - very similar to the "add a block to just this page" or the Annotations module from Pro Drupal Development.
http://drupal.org/project/coolaid
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
meetup
Sounds like a great topic/demonstration for a meetup... Where in Florida are you? You're welcome to present this in Brevard County, just make it known that you'd like to!
-mike
Sticky or Cool not for D7 :-(
Sticky or Cool not for D7 :-(
JCL
Yep. And why install and have
Yep. And why install and have to maintain yet another module when you got an easy core solution. grin