Posted by jhodgdon on December 19, 2016 at 2:59pm
Start:
2017-01-19 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 Drupal User Group!
- When
- Thursday, January 19, 2017, 10 AM to noon
We meet on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday of most months at this time/location. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month). - 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.
- To be reminded, sign up!
- To receive an email reminder closer to the date of the meeting, log in and click the "Sign up" button; log in and click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come. There's no obligation to come if you sign up (but we hope you will!). There's also no obligation to sign up in order to come (it's up to you if you want a reminder or not). However, the meeting could be canceled if the organizer isn't sure anyone is coming.
- What
- We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table and a laptop on a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), 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!
Comments
Rescheduled for the 19th
Hi folks! I need to reschedule the meeting for January to the 19th instead of the 12th. Sorry about that! I hope that doesn't throw people off too much.
Meanwhile, have a happy holiday season with friends and family, and I'll see you in 2017!
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No problem here....I will be
No problem here....I will be there!
Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/2017
https://www.drupal.org/project/webform - basic web form module. Current/latest versions have conditionals functionality built in!
https://www.drupal.org/project/webformblock - allows putting webforms into blocks
https://www.drupal.org/project/panels - basic panels module, including Mini Panels -- allows you to put various things into pages, like blocks for instance
https://www.drupal.org/project/panels_accordion - makes accordion-style panels on a page
Then when setting up the web form, you do the following:
- Content of this type is unpublished by default.
- Some users have permission to create (unpublished) content of this type.
- Set up the Rules module to notify the admin when an item is added. https://www.drupal.org/project/rules
- The admin reviews the content and edits/publishes it.
A more complicated way to do this is to use the Workflow module, which can have more states than just Published/Unpublished. https://www.drupal.org/project/workflow
Another approach: use iframes and embed the information from one site into the other site. Or if their site has a "widget" (like Twitter does), you could get that widget code and put it into a block, then display it anywhere on your site. And you'd use the non-Drupal site to be the official repository of the data.
- Make a good title, and a full description of how to reproduce the problem in the Issue Summary field.
- Use priority Normal unless it's really critical or totally minor
- Leave the status at Active (the other status values are for people fixing the issue and reviewing the fixes)
- Unless you personally plan to fix the issue, leave the Assigned field at Unassigned
- Do not add random issue tags
https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_gmap -- Jennifer's simple module that lets you format a text field containing an address, to show an embedded Google map
https://www.drupal.org/project/gmap -- more complicated module that lets you make views that display locations from location fields on users or nodes or etc. Then you can make it so that if someone clicks the marker on the map, it shows you the content title with a link that takes you to the page, etc.
And more... many many options
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon