OpenScholar

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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

How can I customize user's Control Panel?

Posted by rauf547 on September 1, 2011 at 6:14pm

Hi all,

I would like to know if there is a way to remove some itens from user's control panel.

For example I would like to remove "Manage Members" item founded in //cp/users

And I would like too that some features founded in //cp/features doesn't appear to the user.

Thanks!

Benchmarking Higher Ed Sites ...

Posted by matt_paz on August 31, 2011 at 7:39pm

I recently revisited an old pet project of mine looking at benchmarking and comparing higher education sites. It is obviously a work in progress, but it is shaping up fairly well at this stage and I'm getting to a point where I'd like to secure some feedback. If 'ya get a chance, please take a look and let me know what you think. It's based on D7, represents around 3,200 US higher ed sites, and has a range of data to sift through.

http://thesites.at/

subdomain rendering problem

Posted by crazyrohila on August 17, 2011 at 11:48am

hey first of all thanks for this awesome thing (openscholar).

I having a problem when click on shortcut icon.My main domain site is http://localhost/openscholar/ and a subdomain site is http://localhost/openscholar/itdept/. When i click on subdomain's site logo (or shortcut icon) it should be redirect on it's homepage (in my case http://localhost/openscholar/itdept) but it shows error 404 and redirecting on (http://localhost/itdept/). And this is happening every time when i click on shortcut icon and content editing or updating. so please help me and give a solution.

thanks

Please Help: after userlogin nearly no function is anymore available!

Posted by fahl5 on August 8, 2011 at 9:43pm

Since weeks I try in vane to setup OS. Here is how far I come. Frrom the moment a user is logged in all one can see is that.
Firefox after login: http://lp.d-gy.de/after-user-logiin-FF.jpg
Internet Explorer after login: http://lp.d-gy.de/after-user-logiin-IE.jpg
There is no chance to logout, no to create a new site, what makes OS unusable.
I have tried to activate the login modul for the OS-default-theme, but that has only impact on the frontsite before login. As you can see there is no possibility to create or administer anything meanwhile I have allowed authenticated users to do so.

Page Not Found After Deleting Content-How To Redirect To Previous Page

Posted by angelb on August 3, 2011 at 6:41pm

Hi All,

I was wondering how you can avoid getting the "Page Not Found" page after deleting content from a page when it reloads. Is there any way to bypass this page and redirect to the previous page? For example, I add a blog entry. I click on the blog entry and decide to delete it because I don't want it. After I delete it I get the Page Not Found page because it's trying to reload the content I just deleted and it does not exist. I would like for it to reload back into the main Blog page instead. Is this possible in Open Scholar?

Thank you in advance for your help.

How to create Static Home page for Open Scholar User's Site?

Posted by angelb on August 1, 2011 at 8:20pm

Hi All,

I was wondering if anybody out there knows how to set a static page (like Bio) as the default home page for an Open Scholar user site (instead of having the stream of items added to the site set as the default home page)? Where can that be edited for each user? (not site wide)

Thank you in advance for your help!

Forming a Drupal in Higher Edu Consortium

Posted by btopro on July 29, 2011 at 2:57pm

I've been having a conversation via email with a bunch of higher EDU drupal developers which I'm sick of just talking about so let's make it happen: A Drupal in Higher Education Consortium. The goal of this isn't some kind of bloated, formal relationship but instead a series of lightweight tools across different websites (this one included) in order to help each other through problems we face.

Code-based user registration -- VSITE

Posted by Grondhammar on July 27, 2011 at 6:57pm

Hi all,

We are working to automate the filling of course websites with auto-created users based on our campus centralised course roster info. So far, I've had good success creating users via Drupal's stock user_save, then adding them to sites via og_subscribe_user_action.

The problem comes when I try to get vsite profile information in (i.e. the user's first and last name).

upgrade from b10 to b11 fails for errors in update.php

Posted by Anonymous on July 17, 2011 at 9:40pm

I downloaded 2.0b11, unpacked it to a new directory as a test installation, copied over settings.php and changed it to use a copy of my b10 database, copied over a few custom modules, copied over my b10 users "files" directory, and attempted to run update.php using the update_free_access = TRUE option. It appeared to work, updating around 57 things until towards the end it reported the following errors:

warning: reset() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /DocumentRoot/eportfolio-b11/update.php on line 313.

Upgrade problem Module spaces

Posted by lucianoes on July 7, 2011 at 1:15pm

I'm having problems with the upgrade described here:

http://openscholar.harvard.edu/software/download-openscholar/2-0-beta11

But i had an error with module spaces after run update.php like this:

http://drupal.org/node/1203828

I'm running openscholar with PHP 5.2.

Any idea how can I fix that?

lucianoes

No OpenScholar working...

Posted by fahl5 on July 4, 2011 at 2:10pm

First I succesfully installed the beta 10 Version and was very pleased about the wonderful Application. On one server I get while trying to install either erroralerts or timeouts on another server, the pages lack nearly all necessary blocks and dont have even neither createsite, nor any logout function.
It is the same if I upgrade and if I do a new installation.
I saw that others to had some problems with the new, anyyone has an Idea what might be the Problem that keeps me from using the current OS-Version beta11, please let me know.

/cp/users page not found

Posted by astral-1 on June 12, 2011 at 8:05pm

Does anybody have a clue about why is that happening?

Support for javscript redirection?

Posted by rbuell on May 25, 2011 at 2:08pm

I just signed on last night and it will take me some time to transition all of my content from my current website onto the Open Scholar platform. In the meantime, I was hoping to setup a javascript redirection to my current website, so anyone who accesses my Open Scholar domain will be sent to my current site. It seems that the text fields in Open Scholar are designed to escape javascripts, which is understandable, but is there a workaround I can use until I'm ready to have my Open Scholar site go live?

Thanks!

Anyone have Custom Domains and Clean URL's working together?

Posted by rpoyner on May 23, 2011 at 9:10pm

I'm wondering if anyone has found the .htaccess magic to get both Clean URLs and Custom Domains working together.

In the control panel for my test prof (openscholar.dept.u.edu/testing/?q=professor/cp/settings/generic) I can put in a custom private domain, professor.dept.u.edu. I tell apache that professor.dept.u.edu has the same doc-root as openscholar and viola! professor.dept.u.edu takes me to professor's openscholar page.

If I turn on clean URLs in openscholar professor.dept.u.edu gives an Internal Server Error, 500.

Inventory of live OpenScholar implementations

Posted by bill.mclaughlin on May 5, 2011 at 2:14am
Last updated by niccolox on Thu, 2011-05-05 16:59

I have been unable to locate a list of live OpenScholar sites so I figured I would start one. Please feel free to add/edit the list below.

Merritt College

University of California, Merced Graduate Students

single site installation

Posted by montanap on May 3, 2011 at 1:31am

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering whether anyone could help me setting openscholar up as a single-site installation? This would include making the base URL the entry to my homepage.

Thanks,

Help on Individual pages

Posted by bremskraft on April 25, 2011 at 10:27pm

What permissions do I need to activate to provide the little "?" help button on certain pages?

Customizing the initial setup

Posted by montanap on April 7, 2011 at 10:53pm

Hi everyone,

I'm new to openscholar. I have a site setup with most of my content, but there are a few things that I don't seem to figure out:

(1) Can I hide the login button and only keep a deep URL to it?
(2) In the header is a link to contact the owner. Is it possible to remove this link?
(3) How can I change the browser icon?

Thanks a million for any pointers. I'm using openscholar 2.0 beta 10.

Lost primary menu and header content

Posted by rpoyner on April 7, 2011 at 3:49pm

I'm getting good at trashing my openscholar site :-(

Sequence of event so far:

Upgraded from stock openscholar 2.0 beta9 to openscholar 2.0 beta10 + pressflow 6.19.96.

Hosed prof site by adding inappropriate vsite domain

Fixed vsite problem by deleting entries from spaces_settings and purl tables using PMA.

Flushed the drupal caches

Have lost site content from the head and side bars of the site, including the primary menu, prof picture and info, etc.

Undo custom domain in vsite?

Posted by rpoyner on April 6, 2011 at 6:51pm

Hosed my openscholar site this morning and I'm wondering if there is a graceful way to back out.

I set a private domain: prof.dept.u.edu for a working site: openscholar.dept.u.edu/openscholar/prof

Stupidly I did not add the prof.dept.u.edu domain as a cname to the server. Not that it would matter much since I can't edit the apache config to point the prof.dept domain at the openscholar directory.

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