Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that TODAY (Wednesday, Sept. 8) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
Here is what's on the agenda:
1. "Understanding the Drupal 7 Database Abstraction Layer and Field API" presented by Todd Tomlinson
Two of the biggest and most important changes in Drupal 7 are the new database abstraction layer and Field API (fields in core!). In this presentation, prolific Drupal author Todd Tomlinson will break down everything you need to know to take advantage of these exciting and powerful new D7 features. For those may not know, Todd is the author of two important Drupal books: 'Beginning Drupal 7' (released June 1, 2010) and 'Pro Drupal Development for Drupal 7' (due in October, previous editions of this book have been considered the "bible" for Drupal developers). After his presentation, he'll even be giving away free books and coupon codes!
2. "The Best of DrupalCon Copenhagen" presented by Jonathan Hedstrom
Were you not able to make it to DrupalCon Copenhagen last week? We've got the next best thing! Our very own Jonathan Hedstrom was in attendance and he'll offer his insights on the Core Developer Summit, the "State of Drupal" keynote address, and his favorite presentations and events. It's a terrific opportunity to stay up-to-date on the latest Drupal news and we'll also open up the discussion to others who were in attendance.
For full descriptions of each of the above presentations, you can check out the full meeting announcement here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/91174
Here are the meeting details:
Date: TODAY (Wednesday, Sept. 8)
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
See you there,
Ben
Comments
Module suggestion
During the meeting introductions, one attendee mentioned a module that will verify whether a Node Reference value is already in use by another node before allowing it's value to be set — useful in scenarios involving competing resources, like reserving meeting rooms and such.
Can someone remind me the name of said module?
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resource conflict module
Check it out at http://dgo.to/resource_conflict
Handbook pages and tutorial @ http://dgo.to/56582
You'll find this info on drupal.org, but the module itself requires you to have a nodreference and a date field on your node. Important - the field type in cck has to be 'date', note 'datetime' or 'datestamp', but 'date'. The date_api module is therefore a dependency.
With those two fields added to your content type, you can then check the 'Enable resource conflict checking for this content type' on your content type's edit tab...and that's about all you have to do. It's pretty simple to use - kind of nice, in the 'small is beautiful' category.
I'd be interested in your experience with it.
Thanks. I will let you know
Thanks.
I will let you know how it goes.
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