OpenScholar represents a paradigm shift in how the personal academic and research web sites are created and maintained. Built on the open-source framework Drupal, OpenScholar makes it possible to create academic web sites in a matter of seconds. Each web site comes with a suite of powerful tools from which users can facilitate the creation, distribution, and preservation of knowledge faster and more efficiently than ever before.
OpenScholar allows users to create genuine, feature-rich web sites on the fly in seconds and is designed to host an unlimited number of web sites in a single installation.
- Install profile project page: http://drupal.org/project/openscholar
- Project web site : http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Urgent! For the latest version of openScholar, Can followers of one blog page at openScholar post a comment on this blog page?
Re: Urgent! For the latest version of openScholar, Can followers of one blog page at openScholar post a comment on this blog page like here?
Hello,
We are now evaluating if openScholar latest version is suitable to be used privately only for the staff of our organization. We have searched all the app doc and the Web, we only found the following info about the above issue:
Blog feature
http://scholar.harvard.edu/help/vsitehelp/Blog-feature
If we have to add a module to the app for the above function, I hope this should not be a big job.
Read moreOpen Scholar "Get Your Site" Buttons
Hello again!
So we're trying to get the 'Get your website' / 'Go to your website' buttons to work on the /websites page. Currently, in the default theme, it does not appear.
However, we noticed that at http://scholar.harvard.edu/websites it does appear, and we'd like that ability too.
We were looking to see if the theme was available to download but we couldn't find it.I might be able to figure out what the options are if I could see the page.tpl.php of that particular theme.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-ln
Read moreRelative Links?
Hello!
We're trying to develop some new themes for openscholar, and we're having trouble embedding images in tpl.php files. It seems that relative pathing is not working, though static links do. We have to run openscholar on http and https, so static links aren't practical.
The links themselves, though coded correctly, return incorrect results. Is there something causing the links to be changed?
Read moreFailed opening taxonomy module using Dev Desktop
I am attempting to install OpenScholar under Dev Desktop for development purposes. I have updated MAX_EXECUTION_TIME to 300 and I get the following message:
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './sites/all/modules/contrib/context/plugins/context_condition_node_taxonomy.inc' (include_path='.;C:\Program Files\acquia-drupal\common\pear') in C:\Documents and Settings\penguino\Sites\openscholar_2.0-BETA13\sites\all\modules\contrib\ctools\includes\plugins.inc on line 759
Read moreMultilanguage Openscholar site
Dear all,
I am trying to build a multilanguage site in Openscholar. I would like to know if anybody was successful.
I try to make the language switcher appears on the Scholar site, but it does not work. It does appear in the administrator site. Also, I cannot make the translation tab work when entering a new page.
Any help appreciated.
I am using OpenScholar beta 13.
Michel
Read moreHow to upgrade OpenScholar to latest Drupal core (6.2.24) and other updated modules
Hello,
I've installed OpenScholar on my box but see from the /admin/reports/updates page that there are several Drupal updates that need to be installed. Updates such as
Drupal core 6.22
Recommended version: 6.24 (2012-Feb-01)
Bibliography Module 6.x-1.15
Recommended version: 6.x-1.17 (2012-Jan-23)
...etc, etc.
I have searched through the OpenScholar issues and I do not see any information there, or even on the O.S. website about how to EASILY and most USER-FRIEND(i)LY way to update all these Drupal modules.
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Old RSS Feed Post Not Importing Into OpenScholar Site
Hi All,
We are trying to import an RSS feed from the NY Times in to an OpenScholar site using the Feeds feature. The last post in this feed was made in 2009. When we try to import the feed, it says no new items to import and the where the last feeds should it is blank. How can we get OpenScholar to display the last few posts in the RSS feed even though they were made in 2009?
Thank you for all your help in advance.
Read morebest way to change the default features
Hi folks,
We're setting up a Scholars (personal sites) OpenScholar instance. We would like to have the Classes feature disabled by default. What's the best way to accomplish that? Looks like the os module is where the default is set to enable/public, but I don't want to just go edit the module files and have them overwritten when the next OpenScholar update is applied. Do I have to create a custom module just to default that feature to off? I couldn't find a place the Admin UI to default it to disabled for each new vsite.
Read moreis it recommended to apply security updates or wait for openscholar update
On a normal Drupal installation, we would apply security updates for Core and modules as soon as possible. But, in the case of OpenScholar, is that the recommended practice? Or it is advisable to wait for the next release of OpenScholar. (Obviously a risk.)
I ask because OpenAtrium (another install profile) recommends waiting, but they publish updates more quickly it seems. https://community.openatrium.com/documentation-en/node/1985
I'm not sure if it is advisable to wait in general when using an installation profile or if that's just how OpenAtrium does it.
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Unpublishing a Scholar Site changes its theme to default
I was trying to customize the opensholar front page by selecting only few sites to be visible. For this I added a filter to the front page view to display only published Scholar Sites. When I unpublished a site from Content, my purpose was done, but I observed a side effect: the unpublished site loses its theme chosen by the user and goes back to default.
Read moreLeaving a required field empty in a form generates the usual error, but the popup dialog gets collapsed.
Leaving a required field empty and saving creates a collapsed and hence, unusable lightbox. See the screenshots.
On trying to copy paste the text, I could identify that the error "Description field is required" is generated in that lightbox, but not easy to see it. Solutions?
Read moreTrying to upload a profile pic of huge size gives a blank screen.
I am using the 2.0beta13 version of OpenScholar and facing the following problem:
When I try to upload a profile pic of huge size (2.8 MB in my test) OS gives a blank screen. Apache error log suggests PHP memory limit gets exhausted. Uploading smaller size profile pics seems to work as usual.
I have 128 MB as the set memory limit for PHP, and GD needs about perhaps max of 10 MB of memory for its resize/crop etc. operation. Then what could be the reason for this behavior?
Read moreInduvidual sites one level up
Hi, is there any possibility of creating the new sites a level up?
Eg: My open scholar beta13 is installed in http://www.example.edu/openscholar
I need people to create sites like : http://www.example.edu/newsite and not as http://www.example.edu/openscholar/newsite
The reason i did not install openscholar at http://www.example.edu/ is because i have a D7 site running there.
Custom Ajax Pagination
Hi..
I am working on a custom search module which gives the result in ajax. My return is " drupal_json(array('sample'=>$output)); ". $output contains my html with the search result along with my pagination function. My first page is loading in ajax which is fine for me. But when I click 2 page its redirecting to the ajax path along with the arguments " ?page=1&js=1" . I want this page also loads in the same page in ajax ( with out reloading ) . How can I bring pagination also in the ajax format?
Thanks for all helps...!
Read moreProblem after installation openscholarbeta13
After install openscholarBeta13 I get sometimes the message below.
user warning: Duplicate entry '' for key 'name' query: INSERT INTO users (created) VALUES (1321443132) in /openscholar2beta13/modules/user/user.module on line 328.
What could it be?
Read moreBroken Image on front page of personal sites
Hello
When a personal website is created an image is supposed to be displayed in the top left-hand corner inside a widget. In my case, no image appears. The path of the broken image is identified as
http://xyz.com/openscholar/sites/default/files/imagecache/vsite_design_l...
Read moreHow to change the default header in personal websites?
Hello
I confess ignorance of drupal although I am familiar with other systems. The learning curve is pretty big although the system is also very complex. So... sorry if this is simple or obvious.
When a personal website is created, the person's user name appears. I would like to replace it with the person's real name. How do I achieve this? I have tried clicking on the configuration dropdown inside the widget which displays the name but all it does is load a copy of the whole front page in a small text area.
Thank you for your help.
Andrew
Read moreIncorrect path generated by openscholar
Hello
I am very new to openscholar.
I installed the latest version of openscholar - apparently correctly. I installed it in a subdirectory of the root directory.
After entering information (e.g. a bibliographic ref.) the system tries to take me back to the homepage of my personal site.
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Invited New user has full permissions
Ran into a serious issue today.
Invited a new user to a site via Control Panel - Users - Manage Members. Filled out the form to add the new user. The new user has been assigned ALL roles in the system, including administrator (!).
When the user clicks the link in their email to complete the registration process, they go to their /user page and they are already logged in as Admin (!?!?!). They have full access to the admin ribbon and can self-select their roles. Obviously not a good thing.
My U create settings says that new users should be assigned the scholar user role.
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