Spokane Day-time Learn/Co-Work Group Sept 10

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Posted by jhodgdon on August 14, 2015 at 11:02pm
Start: 
2015-09-10 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
jhodgdon
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 10, 2015, 10 AM to noon
Note: We often meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month; this time it's the 2nd Thursday of the month. Hope that's OK.
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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

Notes

Posted by dmsid on September 11, 2015 at 7:07pm
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I am so looking forward to the notes from the meeting. :)

Wink wink nod nod

Posted by dmsid on September 17, 2015 at 7:51pm
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I have a feeling that the meeting notes got to go on a trip to Hawaii and I did not. :(

Meeting notes

Posted by jhodgdon on September 25, 2015 at 10:11pm
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Actually, they went on a trip to Minnesota. Sorry I forgot to post them before I left... Anyway, here they are now:

  • Upcoming events:
    - http://2015.pnwdrupalsummit.org/2015 - Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, Oct
    10-11, Seattle
    - https://2015.badcamp.net/ - BADCamp, Oct 22-25, Berkeley CA
  • We talked about how to make a View that would show a random selection from the most recent 15 articles on the site. Jennifer said maybe use a Nodequeue - if you put the articles in the Nodequeue (maybe automatically, via Rules if possible?) you could then make a View that filtered by "in the queue" and sorted randomly and showing 1 article. This seemed like a fine idea, but although Nodequeue has some rules integration, for some reason they only have Events and Conditions, not an "Add this to a queue" action. So, not possible without writing some code.

    Alternatively, you could use a Slideshow: we tested this, and were able to do the following:
    - Set the display to be a Slideshow
    - Sort content by published or updated date (as desired), descending order.
    - In the Pager settings, display 15 items.
    - In the Slideshow settings, choose Random order. This is under "Advanced" in the slideshow settings.

    This made Views take the latest 15 items and display them in the slideshow in random order.

    Modules:
    https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
    https://www.drupal.org/project/nodequeue

  • Problem: A not-so-great URL on a site, with a -0 at the end. If you fix it, what will happen for bookmarks and outside links? Answer: Get the Redirect module, and make sure the setting for "When the URL alias changes, automatically make a redirect" is checked (which should be on by default when you install the module0.

    https://www.drupal.org/project/redirect

  • Making a multilingual site:
    https://www.drupal.org/documentation/multilingual
    This is complicated to get right.

    However, if what is needed is just the ability to translate individual content items, that is not so hard. To do that:
    - Enable the core Locale and Content Translation modules.
    - Go to Admin > Config > Regional and Language > Languages and add new language(s) to the site for each language you want content to be translatable to.
    - For each content type that you want to have translatable, edit the content type, and under Publishing options, find Multilingual Support, and set it to "Enabled, with translation".
    - For each item you want to translate, you'll need to change the language to English first (it will have been Language Neutral), and then along with View and Edit, you will have a Translate tab that will let you add a translation.
    - The translations will be linked to each other when you're viewing them.

  • Did some CSS tweaking on Lisa's site

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

Spokane, WA

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