Posted by jhodgdon on August 8, 2014 at 4:29pm
Start:
2014-09-11 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, September 11, 2014, 10 AM to noon
- Sign up!
- Log in and click the "Sign up" button, if you think you will be coming. You will be reminded 2 days before. The meeting will be canceled if not enough people sign up by the end of the day the Monday before the meeting. You can always click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come.
- 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, or watch on the projector screen. Come with a project you're working on, a desire 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 usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!
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.
Sign up now! Log in and click the "Sign up" button if you plan to come, or probably will come, to ensure the meeting actually takes place. It will be canceled if not enough people sign up to make it a good meeting.
Comments
Looking for Associates in Spokane
I have a favorite client that has relocated to Spokane Valley. I cannot service them like I used to. I would be very interested in getting acquainted with Drupal providers locally.
Tom/* Ogden
We look forward to meeting
We look forward to meeting you at our next get together!
Can't Make it on the 11th
I'm happy to have found this group. I'm helping put on the Inland Northwest Permaculture Convergence in Tumtum which starts on Sept. 11, but I'm looking forward to meeting with other Drupal users as I have lots of questions.
Chrys
Hopefully you can make it to
Hopefully you can make it to one of these, it is a great time and a great resource.
Meeting Notes
Here is what we discussed at today's meeting:
Sessions, session cookies, and login/logout in Drupal (kind of technical but still interesting)
Shawn wants to put up alerts/popups to new people who come to the site, with an offer or something like that, which will go away and not come back if they've already dismissed it. It would ask them to sign up for something, get a free something, etc.
Looks like the following modules would be useful, which Shawn had found:
https://www.drupal.org/project/popup_onload
https://www.drupal.org/project/webform_ajax (wants to pop up a web form)
https://www.drupal.org/project/colorbox_node
https://www.drupal.org/project/colorbox
What we tried:
a) Download and enable all of these modules.
b) I already had an existing webform, so I didn't create a new one.
c) Went to Admin > Configuration > Popup on Load (admin/config/user-interface/popup_onload)... looks like the default settings are probably fine if you want this popup on every page, or you could restrict to certain pages.
d) Went to Admin > Structure > Popup on Load (admin/structure/popup_onload/manage)... No way to add a new popup here.
e) Went to the Project page and clicked the Documentation link (doh!). It looks like there is no link for adding popups without the Admin Menu module, so installed that https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu (and disabled the core Toolbar module).
f) Now can go to Admin > Content > Popup on Load (admin/content/popup_onload) and click "Add new" to add a new one. This allowed me to make a simple text/html popup. Might want to adjust the delay on the Settings page! Default is 5 second delay.
Conclusion: The Popup on Load module does not integrate (apparently) with the Colorbox, Webform Ajax, etc. modules. So it only allows you to pop up text/HTML not webforms. Not useful for this application, and the Close/X button also hid part of my text, ugh.
g) So... We first needed to get a webform displaying in a colorbox. To do this, I made a block with the following content:
<a href="http://jay/~api7/node/60567?width=500&height=500" class="colorbox-node">This link should show the webform I hope</a>So you put in the URL to the webform, with a class of "colorbox-node" on the link, and when you click the link it pops up the form in a colorbox.
The next step would be to make this pop up without clicking the link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12165586/automatic-open-colorbox-moda...
But this will require looking at the Colorbox Node javascript code, because it magically takes care of links with class "colorbox-node" and the code on Stackoverflow is not using links. Looks like you need to look at calling the .colorboxNode() function from the colorbox_node.js file. Good luck Shawn!
Shawn wants to use Drupal as the back end for some on-line gaming (logging in, keeping track of stuff in the database, etc.) ==> web services!
==> Jennifer suggests learning about REST, XML-PRC, and SOAP...
Portland! http://2014.pnwdrupalsummit.org/ -- be there! It is usually a very high quality conference. Jennifer and Shawn plan to go; anyone else? Jennifer already has plane tickets and accommodations; Shawn will probably bring his wife, could possibly carpool.
Coffee! Shawn has a coffee roasting business http://LaVentaCoffee.com -- you missed out if you weren't here!
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