Spokane Day-time Learn/Co-Work Group July 16

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Posted by jhodgdon on June 22, 2015 at 5:46pm
Start: 
2015-07-16 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
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jhodgdon
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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, July 16, 2015, 10 AM to noon
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Where
Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library. From the hallway, go into the library proper, past the checkout/information desk, take a right and you'll see the room on the right.
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.

Comments

Learn How at meeting

Posted by dmsid on July 15, 2015 at 8:30pm
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I would like to make a view that will go through the user records and print out a count of users based on the field of their main domain.

Domain Breakdown
India 1,231
Main 4,201

Meeting notes

Posted by jhodgdon on July 16, 2015 at 8:26pm
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What we discussed at the meeting:

  • Jose showed us a draft of an RFQ for the MAC web site. Group critiqued the RFQ - needs more detail!
  • Jose asked about how to build an event site where people could register and pay for events. Jennifer suggested using EventBrite to manage the event registration, and then build a calendar in the Drupal site that would just list the events with links to the URLs on EventBrite. It is responsive and well-designed. Works great. The one that MAC is using right now (rezclick) is not responsive.
  • Jon wants to make a view that counts stuff. Like in SQL, it would be a query like SELECT COUNT(*) from something GROUP BY something. But in Views.

    We managed to do this with some trial and error. Here are the steps, in order -- note: we are making a view that counts the number of content items in each content type, in this example:
    - Make a view that shows Fields.
    - Under Advanced, turn on Aggregation.
    - Remove the default field that is added (Title in this case)
    - Add a Content Type field, twice:
    - First time - aggregate by "Group results together"
    - Second time - aggregate by "Count"
    - Remove any existing sorts, and sort instead by Content Type (aggregation: group results together)
    - Under the Fields settings, set the two fields to be "inline".
    - Probably also want to make sure there is no pagination - that you show all results (Pager: Display all items).

  • Jennifer showed off the new User Guide project -- writing a user guide for Drupal 8. See https://www.drupal.org/project/user_guide to get involved.

    Also, to try out Drupal 8 while you are writing a topic, go to
    https://simplytest.me/
    choose project "Drupal Core", and the latest Beta version, and install. It will give you 24 hours to use it.

  • Jose showed us a custom PHP site that was working on one host but the links were not working on the other site. We figured out that problem is probably that the .htaccess file was missing. This lets the server make "fake" URLs (so it will take a URL like example.com/foo be processed by the index.php script). Drupal relies on this too.
  • Jose asked about relative vs. absolute links in HTML. We discussed
    this... suggest doing a web search for "relative links" and reading some of the top results there.
  • Shawn told us about Odoo - which has project management, accounting, content management, purchasing management, bread slicing and eating too! It has a community edition that you can use for free; or you can subscribe if you have big bucks.
  • Jon had a Node Reference field that he needed to limit. He told us about using Views to limit the choices (making an "Entity Reference" view).
  • Shawn talked to us about Amazon Web Services. Jon asked if Shawn could tell us about how to use AWS next meeting.

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Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Spokane, WA

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