UMass Drupal User's Group meeting - Thu, Nov 7

Posted by druderman on October 10, 2013 at 12:28pm

Start:

2013-11-07 14:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

limako

druderman

Event type:

User group meeting

This Users Group meeting is Thursday, November 7 at 2pm in ISB 145.

Meetings are open to anyone interested in Drupal and not limited to the UMass community. Bring problems, questions and ideas. Offers to make presentations are welcome.

The meeting is at the UMass Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) (See map here.
Room 145 is a meeting room near the elevators on the first floor.

Regular meetings for the UMass Amherst Drupal Users Group are the first Thursday of the month and usually run around 90 minutes.

Agenda:
- Introductions
- Open topics: discussion, problems, show and tell, best practices, etc.

Please post here if you wish to make a brief presentation at the meeting so we can add it to the agenda.

Please use the 'Signup' feature on this events page for a reminder.

Comments

I can't make this meeting but am looking for a local developer..

Posted by bramface on November 4, 2013 at 12:57am

To any Drupal module developers reading this (and I'll email you separately, shevy24@gmail.com):

I have created Drupal sites since 2006, but not modules. I have a site that needs 2-3 custom modules to do the following:

1) All Contracts (Books) have a Datasheet (Basic Page) and bundles of Service Items (separate books added to it). The Data Sheet contains a variable called "Seats". Each of the Service Items has a "multiplier" - so that if the client has 500 seats, the Service Item would cost 500 * its multiplier. I need a module (or php for a computed field) that will do two things:

a. reference "field_seats in node in this book of type Datasheet" and perform the calculation on the service item as "field_item_cost".

b. in the datasheet, embed a view that references all service items within the book the datasheet belongs to, and lists their names and "field_item_cost" fields, providing a sum total.

2) A contract request begins with creation of a Datasheet, which is the top level Book page for that contract. Other books (which are bundles of service items) need to be copied and added to this contract. Module should place a button on the cover page to any service item bundles that says "Add to Contract". Clicking this button creates a radio button list of contracts authored by global user, and by selecting one and pressing "Add", the book should be added to the contract.

Anybody reading this have the chops to do this work? Please contact me by November 9th. Feel free to discuss strategies during the November 7th Meetup!

Thank you,
Bram Moreinis
bram@gamefacewebdesign.com

http://gamefacewebdesign.com

I'd like to add local

Posted by gp177 on November 5, 2013 at 2:49pm

I'd like to add local development as a possible agenda item.

If people are interested I'd like to continue the excellent discussion that Kelly started and try to determine if there is anything OIT to can do to aid in development.

Minutes

Posted by limako on November 7, 2013 at 8:32pm

Here are the minutes from the meeting:

UMass Drupal Users Nov 7,2013

Attendance
Kelly Albrecht
Steven Brewer
Dave Ruderman
Nate Develder
Gary Parker
Nick Wojik
Andy Slocombe
Cheryl Kiras
Bill Leahy
Sarah Harvey
Dan Harper
Joanne Patalano

Topics

local development, version control, workflow: resources at OIT
  Kelly's workflow/best-practices presented last time
    completely local development to staging to developments
    checkpoints and qa
  Kelly's priorities for OIT
    git -- Sourcetree as client?
    backpublishing databases: backup and migrate modules
    files not being version controlled
    mamp replacement: vagrant
    features

Solr
  who wants?
  Andy Slocombe will organize effort
  
ecommerce
  stringent campus policies
  Patty Roeper contact in A&F
  Cybersource one sanctioned processor on campus
  used a "hosted order" page (will be something else with a new api soon)
  modules: 
    developers don't have file-system action to production
  commerce kickstart: some don't place nice with drush

ssl, 
  securepages,
  surfertickets, 
  varnish, 
  SNI, 
  subject alt: alternate hostname
  
hosting services?
  dreamhost
  hostgator
  linode
  rackspace

Next Wednesday: Hampshire College
  Western Mass Drupal Group 6pm
  NERDS 7ish
    Mentoring program
    
  computer Science education week: Dec 9-15
    csedweek.org
    
  WTP: Alexis Ohanian
    Feb 23