Posted by dudenhofer on August 21, 2009 at 12:37pm
Hey Guys!
I've been getting used to the Open Atrium install profile lately and found a lot of things I really like about it. Also, as I've been getting more into Spaces, Features, and Contexts, this install profile has been a great working example of these modules. There have been some questions in my mind about how others are using this install profile and shaping it to fit their needs. I couldn't believe that there wasn't a group for this yet, so I thought I'd start one.
So what's your thoughts about the install profile? Found anything that would be useful to share with others learning the system?
Comments
Good idea!
hia, I'm also using Open Atrium mostly as an example of how I can build my own site up with the use of Spaces, Features and Context. These modules solves a long standing issue we've had with being able to easy create groups and configure them with different tools (features, now).
I'm now trying to rebuild our site so everything (in our case, all sections) is a feature. The main reason for doing this is to have our primary navigation change, so it shows one set of links when at a site space, and another set when in a group space.
My main issue so far with this has been with menus. We are accustomed to setting primary links as source for secondary links, and using menutrails to create sensible visual highlighting of the menus. The thing with features is that they cannot have secondary links (or more levels of links) as we are used to.
I wrote about it in the issue que, but after that I found that I needed to abandon the idea of secondary links, and build the links into the views (as tabs). Then replacing the print statement for my earlier secondary links with the tabs:
<?phpif ($tabs) print $tabs
?>
..with this I got two levels of links in a feature (with views), and it looks good. But now I struggle with keeping the tabs menu highlighted when I go further down (say, I go to one of the nodes linked to in the view, and wish to highlight both the main feature link (this works) and the parent view link (disappears). Better explained with an image I guess: http://skitch.com/vegardjo/b7mq4/links
...anyhoo, that's something that might be interesting for others struggling with the same issue in features. And also an invitation to help if you have an idea on how to solve this :)