Spokane Daytime Drupal Group - April 16 - ONLINE!

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Posted by jhodgdon on April 2, 2020 at 7:07pm
Start: 
2020-04-16 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
jhodgdon
Event type: 
User group meeting

We hope you can join us for the next daytime meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group! We decided that during this time, meeting more often seemed like a good idea, so our next meeting is in 2 weeks.

When
Thursday, April 16, 2020, 10 AM to noon
Where
Due to the libraries being closed, this meeting will be held online in a Google Hangout (link will be posted 10-15 minutes before the meeting -- check back).
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What
We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants in Google Hangouts, where they can share their screens, talk, etc. 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!

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Hangouts link

Posted by jhodgdon on April 16, 2020 at 4:50pm
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Today's meeting will start in about 10 minutes on Google Hangouts. Here is the link:
https://hangouts.google.com/call/BjOlki9_2QNBk1eF7ZCQAEEE

See you all (hopefully) shortly!

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Meeting notes

Posted by jhodgdon on April 16, 2020 at 6:47pm
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Here are my notes from the meeting:

  • Next meeting in two weeks! I'll schedule it after I post this. We all agreed it seems like a good time to stay in touch more than usual.
  • If you have questions in between meetings, please post them on our group! Go to https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa (make sure you are logged in and have joined the group), and click "Create discussion" in the sidebar. Then be patient -- most of us in the group monitor the group, but in daily digest format, so we won't see your message immediately. Diane did one between our last meeting and today: https://groups.drupal.org/node/535850 -- so the ice has been broken!

    If you're having trouble or don't see the links, contact anyone else in the group... One thing that can cause problems is if you are not a "confirmed" user on drupal.org. If you can email someone else in the group a link to your user profile, any one of us should be able to "confirm" you, and that could fix your problems.

  • Events:
    - DrupalCon -- supposed to be in May but it will be postponed
    https://events.drupal.org/minneapolis2020/coronavirus-covid-19-disease-p...
    - PNW Drupal Summit -- https://pnwdrupalsummit.org/ -- postponed but we don't know when it will be rescheduled. Here's a post where you could probably suggest that it be held online:
    https://groups.drupal.org/node/535815
    - Other events may be happening online, so you could meet people from all over the world -- check https://groups.drupal.org/events?type%5B%5D=regional for events
  • Diane showed us a cool thing she did with CSS on an open/close link that changes text from "Read more" to "Read less" when you open it.
  • Jennifer shared a link to an interesting article on Google Analytics,
    reCAPTCHA, etc., and privacy:
    https://ten7.com/podcast/episode/privacy-implications-google-analytics-a...
  • Drupal Planet: An aggregator of Drupal-related blogs and information from around the world -- you can subscribe via an RSS reader, or you can visit the page whenever you want to read the news: https://www.drupal.org/planet
  • Matthew shared some problems he was having with Drupal 8's Quick Edit with Layout Builder. He found a Drupal issue about the problem, with a "patch" (fix) file. Jennifer encouraged Matthew to test the patch and post the results on the issue, along with as much information as possible. This kind of feedback really helps the Drupal project improve its software.
  • Matthew shared how he is using the Views Bulk Edit module to be able to edit field values in bulk on content items, such as changing field xyz on a bunch of content items all to have the same value like "pdq".
    https://www.drupal.org/project/views_bulk_edit
    He has a question about bulk editing an entity reference field that uses a View to determine the available values for editing. It is not working because determining the values depends on knowing what "Group" the content item(s) are in from the Group module:
    https://www.drupal.org/project/group
    So apparently the Group module doesn't have an easy way for Views to detect what group is currently being used. It should!

    Matthew may also be able to use some kind of a form alter to put the group ID into the URL so that his view can detect it. You can probably use the get_group() function in in the src/GroupMembership.php class in the module. Also see the tokens code in the tokens.inc file.

  • Diane made a view showing all the books for an author in a block, that she can display on an Author page for a publisher's web site. It uses a Contextual Filter to detect which Author page the block is on, and display only the books for that author.
  • Shawn had a question about Drupal forms in modules. Jennifer demonstrated how to navigate through the API documentation on https://api.drupal.org. Then she found a page that gives the default properties for form elements:
    https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21lib%21Drupal%21Core%21Render%21...
    and render elements (form elements are a subset of render elements):
    https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21lib%21Drupal%21Core%21Render%21...

    And in particular, there is a #states property for form elements that lets one form element react to something a user has edited or selected in another form element.

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Spokane, WA

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