Portland (Oregon)

Welcome to the Portland, Oregon Drupal Users Group. We have an official meetup once every month.

1. Meetings take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm-8pm US/Pacific.

Join this group to receive updates. Keep an eye on Slack for information between meetings.

No need to RSVP; meetings are open to all.

Join the online community on Drupal Slack in the #drupal-pdx channel.

You can support our group at OpenCollective.com/portland-drupal.
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Reminder to vote for DrupalCon Paris Session Proposals

Posted by effulgentsia on July 10, 2009 at 6:30pm

According to http://groups.drupal.org/node/24060, the deadline is this Sunday, July 12. If you're attending, please take advantage of the opportunity to vote. It helps ensure that the sessions you're interested in get a timeslot. And it helps the event organizers plan which sessions to put in which rooms.

File Management - Drupal 6

Posted by abelb on July 9, 2009 at 4:56pm

I am looking for a good module or group of modules that work well for file management.
I want for it to be super easy to use, somewhat like browser view of ftp, easy to upload files, rename, drag/drop into directories, create directories, etc.
I also want to be able to assign terms to / tag file uploads.

I found this post comparing a bunch of different solutions:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/20291

Just curious what people have used and/or what you can suggest.

thanks!
andrea

DrupalCamp Venue

Posted by eliza411 on July 9, 2009 at 3:51pm

As Amye noted on the wiki, we're in search of a new venue for DrupalCamp. Anyone pursuing a venue for the camp, please tell us about it here.

I thought it might be a little easier than trying to track the Wiki page. I also added the ability to tag discussions, polls, etc. with topics to help us in organizing. I'm still exploring what I can do with this site, but using the topics should let us subscribe to feeds in the areas we're helping with. People should be able to subscribe or unsubscribe for e-mail notifications, too. Note the DrupalCamp tab at the top of the page so we won't have to scroll and search for all things DrupalCamp planning related.

Drupal jobs on the rise

Posted by grantkruger on July 7, 2009 at 6:34pm

As posted by Dries today, indeed.com tell us that Drupal jobs are on the rise and are outpacing Joomla and Wordpress by a massive margin. Yes, you are indeed in the right user group. This highlights why a DrupalCamp is so badly needed. Remember that we will be discussing holding a future DrupalCamp tomorrow night at the monthly DUG meet-up.

July Meeting: Q & A solutions using Drupal

Posted by jhedstrom on July 7, 2009 at 6:06pm

Start:

2009-07-08 18:00 - 20:00 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

eliza411

jhedstrom

Event type:

User group meeting

As previously announced this month's meeting will focus on various solutions to the idea of a Questions and Answers site using Drupal.

If you plan on presenting a solution, and haven't yet responded to the original announcement, please post back here.

Logistics

Two nodes at the same time - need creative suggestion

Posted by drm on July 6, 2009 at 8:30pm

Hi all,

I've got a situation with nodes (ubercart products) and I need to connect them to manufacturer information. Since one mfr could apply to many products, the normal answer would be a different CCK content type and a node reference field in the product node. But my client prefers to see both the product and mfr info on the same edit form, with the ability to search existing mfr info during node creation, and then fill those fields with the found info. Which means editing two nodes of different content types on the same node edit page!

If you want to learn more about the Open Media Project...

Posted by dennetmint-gdo on June 27, 2009 at 12:27am

Pete P-O presented on the Open Media toolset during the last meet-up, and we've finally settled on a date for a meet-and-greet for anyone who wants to learn more about the project or get involved. The Open Media Project partners and raSANTIAGO are hosting the social at 3:30 p.m.

Open Media Toolset Mixer--Come learn about the Open Media Project!

Posted by dennetmint-gdo on June 27, 2009 at 12:11am

Start:

2009-07-16 16:00 - 19:00 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

dennetmint-gdo

PetePO

johnthatcherjr

Event type:

User group meeting

We've finally settled on a date for a meet-and-greet for anyone who wants to learn more about the Open Media Project or get involved. The Open Media Project partners and raSANTIAGO are hosting the social at 3:30 p.m.

DrupalCamp 2009... maybe 2010

Posted by grantkruger on June 26, 2009 at 11:54pm

So, as many of you know, we had a plan for an August DrupalCamp at CubeSpace. CubeSpace was an ideal setting, in terms of locality, parking, space, flexibility, catering and more. Sadly, CubeSpace is no more, having recently gone out of business. They will really be missed by the Portland open source community. It also means out plans are totally scuppered.

Theming with 960 Grid - Banner Ads

Posted by PortlandWeb on June 25, 2009 at 11:45pm

There seems to be a trend towards using 960 systems grid when theming. I've been designing a site using this system. One concern I have is that most standard banner ad sizes do not fit elegantly within this grid. Has anyone built a commercial site with the system and added banners in sizes like 728x90, 120 x 240, 300 x 250, etc. Is there another grid system that works better? Thanks.

Be Awesome. Be a Black Tonic Beta Tester.

Posted by wolv3rin3 on June 24, 2009 at 12:16am

We've been working on a new app and just opened up the process to beta testers. It's a real-time web presentation tool - allows a presenter to control display of images via URL. Really simple. Really effective.

And it's built with drupal.

Distinct Comment Permission Settings per Content Type - Anyone?

Posted by wolv3rin3 on June 23, 2009 at 7:30pm

Ah, comments module. How it keeps us up at night.

So we're trying to find a hack solution in order to:
1) Set Forum Topic create comments permissions to be "authenticated" user
2) Set all other create comments permissions to be "anonymous" user

Any suggestions? Priorities are speed and efficiency vs. "the right way". So maybe a good 'ol display:none ;)

Thanks,
David

Questions on Theming: Build your own or use an existing theme?

Posted by abelb on June 19, 2009 at 5:12pm

I have just finished my first drupal site and I just need some clarification and input about building themes.

In the site I just built, I used the Zen theme. It worked totally fine for me as far as i can tell. If anything, i feel like it included a lot i did not use and i deleted a lot of the code that i thought was extraneous.

At the DUG meeting last week, someone did a lighting round on building your own theme.

I am just curious, what do most people making professional sites for clients use? Do you use an existing theme or do you build your own?

Creating an Editable Allowed values list using CCK

Posted by abelb on June 18, 2009 at 4:30pm

Hi everyone,

i am looking for the best way to set up an editable amenities list using CCK.

i have a content type called Accommodations in which the admin will fill in a bunch of data to create hotel listings.

The client wants to have an amenities list that they can check the applicable amenities for the listing and then add notes to any individual amenity.

input filter for external a links

Posted by drm on June 15, 2009 at 7:38pm

I'm looking for a contrib module that lets users put a links to external URLs into a mode using some basic syntax such as [link:Url, text] or something like that. I've been searching the contrib nodules and am only finding such filters for nodes or img tags. I supposed I could write my own, but it seems hard to believe that such a module is not out there, but I'm not finding it.

Thanks

PDXPHP Kickoff Meeting for Open Source Bridge featuring Rasmus Lerdorf

Posted by skeen on June 15, 2009 at 3:53pm

Rasmus Lerdorf will be in town for Open Source Bridge and has graciously offered to lead a meeting for PDXPHP. So the Tuesday before the OSBridge festivities kick off, He (and possible a few other speakers in town), will lead a discussion on various PHP and web topics.
Rasmus is of course know for creating the PHP language but is also an expert in application security, and is currently employed with Yahoo as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, so there will be no shortage of interesting topics for this meeting.

Admin Login issues

Posted by ajkatz on June 14, 2009 at 11:38pm

Hi all,

I am experiencing some issues with a website I help maintain for a local non-profit based on version 5.7. When I try to login, not only can I not edit a page but I can't access Admin pages. After entering username/pw, from I get kicked back to the whatever page I was on, but still in non-edit and non-admin view. I am getting a url parameter that I have never seen before: http://www.sitename.org/?destination=admin

Any thoughts about why I would be getting this?

Thanks!

-- Jeff

Need assistance setting up Drupal Site

Posted by rkolinsky on June 13, 2009 at 9:52pm

I currently manage a website using FrontPage ( it was developed years ago) and I want to switch to Drupal.
I am looking for someone to do the setup...I can create/transfer the content.

Our organization can pay for your services....
Thanks...

Drupal Camp Wiki Page

Posted by eliza411 on June 12, 2009 at 4:58am
Last updated by amye on Sat, 2009-09-26 05:46

Updated: September 25, 2009

Basic Info

DrupalCamp Portland 2009 will be held at NedSpace Old Town on October 9th - 11th.
http://www.drupalpdx.org/camp09
The website is up, registration is open, and we're actively seeking sponsorship from the community to cover the basics: chair rental, coffee, and food.

Bring Your Own:
- Dongle - if you need/have one
- Power cords- if you've got one you can share, bring it.

Event Timeline

Friday:

6-7pm: Meet and Greet/Social Hour I
7-8pm Session planning
8ish- late: Social Hour II

July's Challenge

Posted by eliza411 on June 12, 2009 at 4:27am

We're going forward with a July challenge meeting, and either Jonathan or I will post the final challenge on Monday. A lot of incredibly fun solutions have been proposed to Michelle's suggestion, and unless something more compelling comes along:

"I like the idea of a challenge! If I can suggest one that might be fun, and that probably has many ways to accomplish it: how about a Question and Answer section? Something where a user can post a question, and either a moderator or a user can post answers - but possibly the moderator answer always shows above other user answers or is somehow distinguished."

A couple of requirements:

Presentations must be Internet-accessible so we can use just one laptop to keep things quick.
To be guaranteed a time to present, make your commitment on the meeting reminder by July 6th.

If anyone has other ideas, please post them in the comments here. I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

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