Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - Small Conference Room (this site has two conference rooms - our conference room is on the left as you come in)
9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island)
Davie, FL 33324 USA
Phone: 954-533-5698
The reservation is under my name (Hector)
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request (my Skype user name if my first name concatenated with my last name - my first name is below and my last name is my drupal.org username). I will initiate the Skype call with the people that signed up for the event but are not present at the meetup shortly after 7pm.
We are having monthly meetups on the second Wednesday of the month, so it you can't make this one, then come to the next one.
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i'm skyping it...
an will probably be up north anyway.
Skyping it
Great. I am glad to hear that you will participate.
Hector
Gettin there
Hey Everyone,
I for sure have some theme issues to deal with like you all saw. Here's the odd part, on a pc with IE or Firefox, it all lays out nicely. On a pc in Chrome the button bar falls in the middle of the banner rotor block and can't be accessed. On a MAC is whacked BIG time... weird
I worked out a good solution for the inventory file deal. I have my Crystal Report server ftp'ing the inventory to a csv file stored on Bluehost file 4 times a day. I used Table Wizard and Migrate to get the node creation happening. Works GREAT! (Thanks Hector)... now the new challenge. How can I get the Table Wizard and Migrate modules working on an automated schedule to cover those 4 data dumps. Has anyone done something similar?
Jay
Automated schedule
Jay,
Have you looked at the Queue and Batch APIs? I attended a batch vs queue API session at DrupalCon San Francisco that may be of help:
http://www.archive.org/details/BatchVs.QueueAnApiSmackdown
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/batch-vs-queue-api-smackdown
--Hector
Jay, I thought the Migrate /
Jay, I thought the Migrate / Table Wizard had a checkbox that would automatically pull in any new data from the tables it is watching. Seems like it might have been removed from newer versions... Essentially, it would watch the tables you cared about, and add any content it had not processed on a cron run.
If Migrate has drush support, then you should be able to configure a cron job to run migrate via the UNIX command line.
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
Migrate module
Ryan, yes Mike told me about that checkbox to watch for new data, but we discovered it is gone from the latest version. I didn't want to wait for cron anyways, so just called the migrate_import function directly from my custom module and works great. Just took me several hours to get the parameters right for the function call.
JCL
sweet!
John,
You never got back to me about if it worked out or not - so glad it did! Nice work!
-mike