Posted by jhodgdon on February 20, 2014 at 11:37pm
Start:
2014-03-20 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, March 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
Meeting notes
We had a good meeting today (at least, I thought so)! Thanks to everyone who came!
a) We started out with a question from Jon on how to patch a module. He had found an issue on the "Track Da Files" module (https://drupal.org/project/track_da_files) about Views integration, and he wanted that feature. Someone had posted a "patch file", and Jon wanted to test it out.
So, we:
- Downloaded the module. We discussed how to use the "Repository viewer" to figure out how much had changed between the last numbered release and the most current "-dev" release. For this module, we decided the most current numbered release was OK to use.
- Downloaded the patch file. We also looked at it and discussed what the lines in the file meant.
- Used the "patch" command to "apply the patch" -- see https://drupal.org/patch/apply
- Tested it out -- the patch didn't work
- Commented on the issue with an explanation of what happened and why the patch was flawed (politely). We also discussed how to interact with Drupal module maintainers and the module development process.
b) The next question was from Lisa, and was about how to change the display of search results on her site so that the updated date of pages wasn't shown. So, we discussed how the search results page is generated, and in general how the Drupal theme system works. Then we created a 4-line function in her theme to fix the problem, deployed it, cleared the cache, and saw it take effect.
c) Then we did some things with Views Slideshow (https://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow): Discussed how to make a rotating slide show banner for a site home page, and also how to make an "image selector" that doesn't automatically rotate (click on thumbnails to get a larger image displayed in one place on a page).
I think that's about it... we spent a lot of time with each topic and went into depth... Did I forget anything?
Next meeting will be April 24 -- the 17th was booked -- I'll post a meeting announcement later today or tomorrow (have to run out now).
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