Panels

Panels 2 is a module that uses drag & drop to add content to layouts. It is designed as an API so that modules can use these displays to customize their own areas, and we're working toward fully integrating this solution into Drupal 7.

CCK Integration for Panels

Posted by gordon on April 10, 2008 at 1:23am

I have just posted a patch which allows people to add a single field into a pane for much greater control over content layout.

See http://drupal.org/node/97375 for the patch to CCK

Passing Arguments to views inside panel

Posted by avior on March 13, 2008 at 9:57pm

Hi There
I have been using panles 2 beta 2, with views 1.6

I want to be able to pass the panel page argument to the views inside the panel ,
I have read all the documentation here, but can't make this happen, any help will be appreciated.

I have a content type call event (with a date field called date_start)
I have set up a view called events that accept the date_start as an argument, (it's the second argument , the first is termid, and the third is RSS: RSS Feed Selector)
the view has argument code that set up the default value

using panels 2 everywhere

Posted by sime on March 10, 2008 at 3:27am

We're happily using Panels 2 in our latest site. We're using panels for all node types and suppressing everything else around the panel (ie. we're not using the block config page much at all).

We'd now like to create a default panel to use on every page that is not currently a panel - this will make theming totally consistent - no designing css for both html output scenarios.

Artist & Albums On The Same Page

Posted by yeeloon on February 26, 2008 at 11:00am

Hi all,

I'm very new on this applying Panels to the Drupal CMS.

So, right here, I'm trying to accomplish something like http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/artists/alicia-keys or http://popsugar.com/celebrity/Jessica_Alba. I'm sure Panels can do something similar, but I just don't know how exactly to achieve it.

To achieve a simpler version, I have created two different content types: Artist and Album.

I've also created a new category called Artist which points to the Artist and Album types. I've checked it as:
Hierarchy: Single
Related Terms
Free Tagging.

Then, I goto:

What are the main features of Panels that cannot be accomplished with Views and Blocks?

Posted by amatlis on February 18, 2008 at 9:36pm

Hi, I apologize in advance if this question is posted in the incorrect place. I am new to Drupal and facing a steep learning curve. I'm trying to focus my learning so that I can more quickly start implementing a social networking site for dancers (salsa, swing, ballroom, etc). I have read a lot of great things about Panels, and I am not sure whether to focus my limited free time on learning everything about Panels or just stick to learning Views.

What are the future plans for integration of Panels and MySite modules?

Posted by gustav on February 10, 2008 at 9:06am

Both the Panels and the MySite module provide a mechanism and an interface for creating pages with content blocks pulled from various sources. The main difference between the two is that Panels is aimed at the site administrator and MySite is aimed at the individual user. Compared to the complex functionality that both these modules provide, this distinction seems tiny.

Questions with contexts (node add form)

Posted by bobk on January 31, 2008 at 9:10am

For the life of me, I can't get the settings right for the node add form context setting for panels.
The tutorial for using the node edit form context is great, so thought it would be similar to set up the node add
context.

The closest I get is to having the pane return:

Form
Form goes here.

Looking through the panels/content_types/form.inc include, I found the following function (plus my var_dump)

function panels_content_form($conf, $panel_args, &$context) {
$block->module = 'form';
var_dump($context);
if (isset($context->form)) {

Having view pagers in a panel?

Posted by kirilius on January 27, 2008 at 2:57am

Hi there,

I am stuck on a seemingly no-brainer problem here. Yet I can't find a solution already half a day. In short I cannot get a view to show it's pager inside a Panel.

I have a view, which has the "Use pager" checked and "Items to display" set to 12. I have used the same settings under the Views Panels configuration (http://mysite/admin/panels/views). My "view type" is set to Page.
When the view is displayed alone, it shows its pager and I can browse through the pages if there are more than 12 nodes in the view.

How to set the panel's title dynamically?

Posted by kirilius on January 25, 2008 at 4:33pm

I need to display a panel in the context of a node and I need that panel to dynamically get its title from the node's context.

How can I do this?

How to display a Panel Page as a tab for a specific node type?

Posted by kirilius on January 20, 2008 at 1:44am

I posted this as a support request but this group may be a better place for it.

I have just installed a fresh Drupal 5.6 and Panels 2 beta 2.

I have a custom node type called Destination. My goal is to add some content related to each Destination node as a separate tab in the main Destination node display.

Normally after viewing a node, I would see the two default tabs:
View | Edit
I just want to add another one, say called "Test Panel", so that when I am looking at a Destination node, I'll have 3 tabs:
View | Edit | Test Panel

Panels 2 Screencast

Posted by birdmanx35 on January 15, 2008 at 12:17pm

Hello, all. I've just created the node for a screencast that I was to do for a GHOP task. The link can be found at: http://drupal.org/node/210208.

Thanks very much!

Ability to Drag and Drop Blocks

Posted by metals83 on December 27, 2007 at 6:35pm

Hi,
I am trying to implement a feature for users to rearrange the existing blocks on the home page (netvibes way http://www.netvibes.com/ ).
Users with any role anonymous/authentic can rearrange the blocks to customize the home page but only authentic user's customization will be saved.

Overriding the node edit form

Posted by amitaibu on December 14, 2007 at 7:24am
Last updated by amitaibu on Fri, 2007-12-14 07:28

Panels 2 allows you to override the Edit form of a node. The advantage is clear for developers and non-developers as well, as placing difference blocks in different places is all made through an easy to use UI.

Let's override the Edit form of all the story nodes and divide it into two columns. On the left will place the content form, and on the right the node comments.

In the panel settings 'Add' a 'Two Column' panel.
Panel name = Override node edit
path = node/%/edit
Click 'next'

Panels 2 API Documentation

Posted by merlinofchaos on December 13, 2007 at 8:09pm
Last updated by joachim on Fri, 2008-11-21 10:40

This WIKI is currently a placeholder for Panels 2 API documentation.

proviso: schuyler1d is just putting some documentation here while I peruse the code. It could be all wrong.

Suggestions for Panels UI

Posted by yoroy on November 30, 2007 at 2:36am
Last updated by gaele on Mon, 2007-12-03 23:15

Attaching some thoughts on how to improve the organisation and layout of the panels administration pages. I started pasting this together before I coud see that the img tag is allowed in wiki pages. Let me know if you'd like a certain screenshot to be instantly visible here. I have an .ODT of this document as well but that's bigger than the 1MB limit for attachments here.

Panels 2 documentation

Posted by calebgilbert on November 28, 2007 at 11:03pm
Last updated by rfay on Wed, 2009-02-11 17:18

Help brainstorm and or volunteer to help out with Panels 2 documentation.

Below is in an initial outline that is based on looking at Views documentation as an example, talking to merlinofchaos, and pondering what might be helpful. Constructive comments, additions, offers to help do specific sections are welcome and encouraged.

I. Panels 2 documentation
+Top level: brief overview of Panels 2

Sub-sections

Panels basic options
Definitions
Panels displays
Panel pages
Panel nodes
Mini panels
Panels Plugins (See the demo module at Panels Plugin Example module

Argument Plugins
Context Plugins
Relationship Plugins
Content_type Plugins

II. Panels 2 Theming

III. Panels 2 tutorials

Node decorator functionality

Posted by amitaibu on November 19, 2007 at 4:31pm

I think the CCk Blocks module can provide a possible work around in order to get the Node decorator functionality.

Best way to display a node detail page with panels for my own content type?

Posted by olav on October 25, 2007 at 11:50am

In case I want my detail page ($page=1) at /node/123 of my own content type to display in a panel - how would I do this?

Question: Start embedded view at offset n

Posted by olav on September 24, 2007 at 9:39pm

Is there an easy way to start an embedded view in panels2 at a certain offset, other than writing my own module and setting $view->offset from the panel arguments in my implementation of hook_views_pre_query?

For a news site, I want the first article to look different and the layout prevents me from just formatting the first list item differently. Instead, I want to have two panes where the first one shows only the first item, the other pane shows items starting from the second one.

Cheers,
Olav

Content / Context API

Posted by agentrickard on August 27, 2007 at 6:11pm

I just proposed this session for Barcelona. Hope it makes sense.

Looking deeply at the MySite / Panels integration question, I think what we need is a unified abstraction API that lets modules find, collect, render, and display data in multiple contexts.

Working on a unified API might be the best direction. Take a look at the session proposal and this brief overview.

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