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.

Training: Layouts & Templates (Day 4)

Posted by jenlampton on March 16, 2011 at 11:00pm

Start:

2011-04-07 09:30 - 17:00 America/Los_Angeles

Event type:

Training (free or commercial)

Site Building with Drupal - Day 4: Drupal Layouts & Templates

New Panels module: Panels Extras

Posted by chriscalip on March 11, 2011 at 6:37am

Hello all,

I committed a new module called Panels Extras. It's a bunch of panels plugins that I use in my day-to-day job when building panels sites.

It gives four sub modules:

a. configurable_breadcrumbs : a configurable breadcrumb block available as a content type
b. emailpanels : integration between the cck email field module and panels
c. faqpanels : integration between the faq module and panels
d. menu_seo_title: a seo configurable menu block available in panels

kind regards,
Chris Calip

Panels and Search

Posted by aangel on March 10, 2011 at 6:36pm

I'm implementing many landing pages in Panels that each have unique content that I'd like to be indexed and available via Drupal's built-in search. A quick search for "update_index" in panels came up empty so I'm assuming that Panels does not update the search index.

I have found just the following guidance so far: Custom Content and Search Index, which is rather old. In it Sam says:

Considerations when selecting a theme to use with panels

Posted by j. ayen green on February 27, 2011 at 8:18am

I was looking at the Omega 960gs theme, and came across the assertion that using it would preclude any need for using panels. After looking deeper into what the theme does, I'm fairly confident that while there is overlap, the theme doesn't do offer everything panels does. Not that it should...it -is- a theme.

Overriding node display and URL

Posted by edulterado on February 25, 2011 at 10:51am

Hi,

I would like to know whether it´s possible to use an URL like "/example/%arg/%node" in Panels for overriding nodes.

The thing is that I´d like to organize the pictures of a gallery as follows:
- the node "photo" has a reference to node "category" via node reference.
- I use "Custom Pagers" module to navigate within the "photo" nodes.
- I want the navigation to be organized in two ways:

1= navigation by category with the URL "/gallery/%category/%node-photo". In this case, the pager will hold the navigation through all the pictures included in the same category.

Unable to PDF print full variant content

Posted by windtrader on February 16, 2011 at 1:48am

I'm having trouble printing a panel variant composed of several rows, some with multiple regions. It displays properly on the website but when viewing the PDF version, some region data does not show. I would like to print all the components in the variant, including the multiple rows/regions in a single PDF file, not individual regions.

I am using the PDF option of print module, dompdf module, and dompdf lib. When I test on a simple view displaying a single node I see the PDF-version link and it displays the node content properly.

Panels with APK

Posted by djohns on February 4, 2011 at 6:41pm

Hi All,

I am building a site where we need advanced features on the profiles page so I used APK. Everything seems to be working fine with APK except the Panels variant has a 2 column layout, but it views only as one.

I'm a CSS guy and can hack it to look ok, but I think I did something goofy with Panels to make it one column and I want to get the use out of panels. I'm pretty good with Panels, but not great.

Has anyone encountered this with Advanced Profile Kit ? Or think maybe its a APK problem and not a Panels problem?

Any help would be awesome, thanks!

-djohns

Custom template for specific panes within a panel page

Posted by wonder95 on January 14, 2011 at 5:05pm

I have a front page with a custom panels layout, and I need to modify the layout of two of the panes (Our Expertise and Working With Our Communitym, http://dev.pnwsar.org/xhtml/index.xhtml is my design). All I need to do is switch the locations of the photo and the title so the title is below the photo. The template being used is panels-pane.tpl.php, so I need to create a custom template for just those two panes. How can I do that? I'm assuming there is a hook I can use to define custom templates or some way I can name the templates, but I don't know what they are.

Start your new year off right, with Drupal Training!

Posted by jenlampton on January 3, 2011 at 8:37pm

We're about to start a two week long Drupal Training session here in San Francisco, and we still have seat or two left in a few of our classes. Come top off your Drupal knowledge and set 2011 off with a bang!

Drupal in a Day
Drupal for site builders
Drupal Panels for site builders
Drupal Theme Development

New Panels module: Panels Regions

Posted by devkinetic on December 9, 2010 at 8:34pm

Hi Everyone,

I just committed a small helper module called Panels Regions. It allows you to selectively hide regions on a varient-by-variant basis.

Check it out!

Found: Breadcrumbs in Page Manager. Wanted: Another plugin level

Posted by Itangalo on December 6, 2010 at 11:45am

There are quite a few breadcrumb modules out there, so it is legitimate to wonder why on earth it would be a good idea to write a new module to handle breadcrumbs within Page Manager. This is why I eventually decided on doing just this in a project I'm working on:

The most flexible breadcrumbs modules (such as Custom Breadcrumbs 2) does not support configuration export, which was crucial for the project at hand.
The only exportable breadcrumbs modules I found supports breadcrumbs only for certain path types (such as for nodes).
I really like the concepts of Page Manager and Panels.

Ideally, I would like to have Page Manager have a section where you can enter plugin-enabled actions – but I have so far not found a way of adding a CTools plugin at that level (this being my first CTool plugin ever). Instead I have used the access rules to write an action that sets a breadcrumb without affecting the actual access outcome.

It would be much neater (and less of a hack) if this could be run as a clean action, not expected to change access/variant selection/visibility rules.
Does anyone know if it is possible to add plugins on this level? What I'm after is basically a new tab, like the access or menu, and also subtask like selection rule or context.

Create display of taxonomy terms with depth in Panels

Posted by plousia on November 23, 2010 at 7:56pm

Hi folks, I'm sure this is a newbie question with probably a simple answer, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

What I want to do is have a Panel display all of the nodes tagged with a particular taxonomy term OR its children. In the panel, I have a context which is the parent term. The view has a Taxonomy: Term ID with depth argument. In the panel it's converted to the Taxonomy: Term ID context.

Show/hide particular profile field depending on user relationship

Posted by Crom on November 10, 2010 at 12:37am

Would someone mind pointing me in the right direction on this, please as I have done loads of reading but can't seem to find a way to control the display of content with the level of granularity that I need.

Whilst doing some reading on customising profile displays and getting the same old pointers to user-profile.tpl.php I came across a post saying why not do it using panels? So I have done a load of reading on panels but not found enough information for me to have a eureka moment!

Webform components won't display as block.

Posted by ajdiva03 on November 7, 2010 at 12:53am

I've tried this a couple of ways but I cannot get the webform components to display as part of the block.

I've tried using the webform block (I'm still using webforms 2) and I've also tried creating a views block. From the views page I can see the webform but when I try to push it to the page I want it on I can only see the block title.

Can someone please provide some assistance as to how to get the webform to display as a block with all of its components.

Thanks!!!

Panel for "all other pages"

Posted by bensnyder on November 5, 2010 at 5:00pm

Quick question:
Does anyone know how I could apply a default Panel layout to all pages that do not already have a panel specified?

Or even better:
Is there a variable that would tell me in page.tpl.php if a Panel layout is being used?

Time taken to answer questions like these is always appreciated!!

Can anyone tell me how to do this with panels?

Posted by safwan on October 31, 2010 at 7:15pm

I read that http://www.whitehouse.gov/ uses drupal, i have attached a print screen image of the site below, can anyone tell how it was done?

Simplifying the "Add Content" Process for End Users

Posted by davidpurdy on October 30, 2010 at 2:35pm

Summary
I would really like to offer end users a quick "shortcut" to quickly add a few types of content to a panel, ideally with one or two clicks from the existing drop-down that contains the "Add Content" link.

Details

How to sort the results of 1 view into different panes/regions of a panel

Posted by held69 on October 29, 2010 at 11:03pm

Could someone tell me if it is possible to sort the results of 1 view (page display) into different panes/regions of a panel?

In my view-page-display i have a filter set on three content types.
In a panel-page i want to divide the results of that view over three different panels or regions.

The reason for doing so is that i want one exposed filter for all the regions/panes

After quite some hours of reading posts and trying configurations using a nodetype argument in my view,

Default content screen

Posted by chrisschaub on October 17, 2010 at 12:30pm

Is there a way to make selecting the "Add content"

/panels/ajax/editor/select-content/panels_mini ...

when the popup appears default to a left category selected? I'd like to present the most common options to the user as a default set. So, say I create a category called "Our Common Stuff" and our mini panels and views are all tagged for that. Could I have that be the default selection when the add content ctools popup appears? Thanks for any help.

Panels drop in custom teasers

Posted by chrisschaub on October 16, 2010 at 9:14am

I'd like to create a custom link in the panels content popup (add new pane), like the current "Existing node" link, that would be "Custom teaser". The panels interface would prompt for node title/id and you could upload a custom thumbnail. Upon save, a single teaser would be dropped into the specified region. This way, users could easily drop teasers panes into regions/columns without having to see all the options under "add existing node." Any suggestions are appreciated.

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