We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, May 13th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participants from farthest to closest (via Skype and Join.me):
Brevard - Dennis Solis @den_solis
Miami - Ron Norman @rnorman489
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Allan Reid, Luis Salazar @luispixelhead, Jay Epstein @jeppy64 and me @hectoriribarne
This month we covered several topics. We started out answering Ron's (@rnorman489 http://www.miamicomplaints.com/) question: How can one do taxonomy (i.e. categorization) without the taxonomy module? Jay explained to use a content type for each vocabulary and then to use an entity reference to the vocabulary from the content type where it can be selected. For example, Ron wanted to have City and State vocabularies that applied to a content type for local representatives. Jay recommended creating two content types (one for State and one for City) with just a title field. Taxonomy terms (i.e. categories) are added by creating state or city content with the name of the city or state as the title. Then, an entity reference field for each vocabulary is added the the local representative content type. As you add content to the City and State content types, the drop-downs for the entity reference fields on the local representative show the dynamically created values. Jay also recommended creating a URL alias for each of the vocabularies (i.e. City and State content types) in the patterns section (i.e. admin/config/search/path/patterns) of your Drupal site.
We then went on to talk about Florida DrupalCamp 2015. Everyone that attended shared which were their favorite sessions and why.
Hector (@hectoriribarne (http://iribarne.com) went on to talk about improvements made to the contentin and contentout modules since presenting "No Code Content Migration" at Florida DrupalCamp: http://www.slideshare.net/hectoriribarne/drupal-7-no-code-content-migration
Jay (@jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com) showed us a new way to encapsulate a view using display suite into a field. He blew our minds once again. You guys should have been there.
We had two remote participants via Skype/Join.me and four in the meeting room.
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