Posted by jhodgdon on January 10, 2014 at 1:05am
Start:
2014-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next meeting of the Spokane Day-Time Drupal Learning and Co-Working Group!
- When
- Thursday, February 20, 2014, 10 AM to noon
- Where
- Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We meet in the large meeting room - enter from the door out in the hallway before you go into the area with the books
- What
- Learning and "co-working" time - bring your laptop! Come with a project you're working on, a desire to volunteer to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), a question about Drupal you would like to get an answer to, or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is small and friendly, and consists mostly of people using Drupal in their work who prefer to meet during the workday to share knowledge about Drupal, and you're welcome to join us! Experience levels of attendees typically covers everything from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in.
Note: If you'd like to have a meeting at another time that is more convenient for you, please feel free to organize it! See http://groups.drupal.org/node/161584 for a Wiki where people have listed when would be convenient for them to have meetings.
Comments
New (used actually) projector!
I've been watching CraigsList for months, and I finally found a decent used projector for sale at an affordable price. It has a brand new bulb and both VGA and DVI inputs. So, Jon and whoever else -- you don't need to keep bringing your projectors to the meetings, and everyone else -- we'll have one for sure even if Jon doesn't show up -- no more huddling around laptops. :)
See everyone next Thursday, I hope!
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Cool beans!
Thanks for finding a projector!
Jose is not comming!
Good morning guys! I won't be able to make it this morning, the opening of our new exhibit have me very busy... I will be there next time! Thanks
If anyone can record the secession will be awesome!
JOSE
Notes from the meeting
Here are some notes about what we discussed at today's meeting. Sorry, no recordings -- I don't think they are very practical to make of a 2-hour meeting, unfortunately.
Webforms
https://drupal.org/project/webform
We went through a quick set-up of a web form, including setting it up to send email, and setting up a confirmation message. We learned that you cannot use tokens in the 7.x-3.x version of Webform, in composing your confirmation message. Use the 7.x-4.x version instead (that is NOT the default when you download it from the Webform module page, but it is available farther down the page).
Spam protection
There are several options for protecting your site from spam in user account registrations, webforms, and comments:
https://drupal.org/project/captcha - and add-on modules - be sure to choose a type of CAPTCHA that is accessible to, for example, people with low or no eyesight!
https://drupal.org/project/honeypot - adds invisible (to people) fields to forms and detects bots when they fill in the invisible fields. Does not protect against the low-paid workers overseas type of spam, only bots.
https://drupal.org/project/mollom - a third-party service for spam filtering
https://drupal.org/project/disqus - a third-party service for comment hosting (your comments go to their web site instead of being stored in Drupal)
Setting up breadcrumbs
https://drupal.org/project/custom_breadcrumbs - I have used this module in the past, but when I installed it today on a test site, it broke my admin toolbar and various other things on the site, and had lots of error messages. Seems broken. ?!?
https://drupal.org/project/rules - You can use Rules to set up custom breadcrumbs - much more flexible than the custom_breadcrumbs module! Steps:
- Set up a reaction rule for the "Content is being viewed" event
- Choose conditions such as content type, taxonomy term, etc.
- Use the action "Set breadcrumb"
Very complex logic is supported. It isn't too hard to set up, either.
https://drupal.org/project/menu_breadcrumb - This module we didn't try out today but I've used it in the past. It makes the breadcrumbs come from any Menus of your choice. So you could set up your own custom menu called "Breadcrumbs" (which you would not need to display as navigation on the site), and it could get the breadcrumb hierarchy from that menu.
Pages with Tabs and Accordions
We discussed possible ways to make a page with tabs or accordions, so you could have a lot of content but not have to scroll so much. We didn't have time to try these out, but here are some links:
https://drupal.org/project/panels - base Panels module
https://drupal.org/project/panels_tabs - Tabs add-on - I've used this one, and it's relatively easy.
And maybe these add-on modules would work -- they currently only have "development" versions for 7.x, so they may or may not be ready for a live site:
https://drupal.org/project/panels_accordion
https://drupal.org/project/panels_style_pack
Importing
I did a brief show-and-tell of importing from CSV files using the Feeds module:
https://drupal.org/project/feeds
For importing from WordPress, I just pointed out that this module exists -- I'll be trying it out later this week (last time I used it was years back, or I may have even used a different module at that time, not sure):
https://drupal.org/project/wordpress_migrate
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Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon