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SiteMaster.ServeLime.com's picture

Cross-post from Workflow Group - Setting up Round-robin work assignment

Hi SA

Anybody familiar with NodeQueue + Actions/Workflow/Workflow_NG that can help with this one?

The original is posted here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/17053

The Scenario:
a. Queue containing current list of target workers (UserNode + NodeQueue ?)

b. On submission of a new Target Node, assign the next worker from the queue (Action / workflow_ng ?)
The worker goes back into the queue (round-robin)
*** This bit seems to require a custom-action using PHP (workflwo_ng?) - this is where I'm stuck ***

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Max_Headroom's picture

Meet ups 2009

I have a suggestion for meet ups in 2009
Why don't we just set dates and places in each city that's interested in having a meet.
My suggestion for instance is that we meet every 1st Saturday of every 3rd month at 1PM.
We put those dates on the event calendar and send out reminders. Even if just two people meet up on that day, it is better than nothing.
Then we don't have to run around figuring out who can come or not and when.

And:

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Max_Headroom's picture

Recieving international payments for contract work

Since Paypal is a no-go here in SA, what is the best alternative receive international payments for freelance and contract work?
Something that is acceptable to my client as well.

I'm about to put myself out there....

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Sigal's picture

Jcarousel help needed

Hello,

I want to display a slideshow of thumbnails with different widths on the bottom of my page.

I want the thumbnails to scroll automatically and have prev and next buttons.

When the user clicks on the thumbnail, it should open a bigger image with lightbox.

I played around with jcarousel_block and with viewscarousel but had lots of problems styling the slide because of the different widths of the thumbnails.

Some problems I have:

  • The next arrow disappears when I change the slideshow width.
  • I don't know how to set the thumbnails width dynamically.
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loopy.dloupe's picture

Disappearing images

Hi all
Please help!

User uploaded images (using TinyMCE/IMCE) keeps disappearing from the files/u.. folder as created by Drupal. The photo gallery appears to be fine, even though the photos are no longer present in the users folder, presumably the page is displayed from cache (mode normal).

Once another update is made to the site, as I did today, the photo gallery is totally broken, all images gone, presumably cache gets cleared due to the updating that was done.

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ae@uberellis.com's picture

Theme (PHP Template): Display author userpic from Page template

I need help with the logic to:

  1. Detect whether page.tpl.php is displaying a full node (one only, not listed)
  2. Detect if the author has uploaded a userpic, and if yes, display the userpic. If no, display the default userpic
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theamoeba's picture

DrupalCon South Africa

Very interested in hosting DrupalCon in South Africa
93% (14 votes)
Wouldnt mind
7% (1 vote)
Dont Care
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 15
Sigal's picture

How to call a block view from a page view and give it an argument

Hello,

Now I have a new brain teaser.

I have a page view that should call a block view.

The block view should get the node id from the page view as an argument.

In my page view, I have this code:

$block = module_invoke('views', 'block', 'view', 'availtext-block_1');
print $block['content'];

How can I send the node id from the page view to the block view?

I see I can put php code in the arguments section of the block view, but I couldn't find any help on what php code I should put there.

Can anyone point me to a help file or a web page where I can get help for this?

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Sigal's picture

Customizing a View

Hello,

I'm trying for 2 days now to customize a view to look like I want it to look with no success.

I have a view of node type that has 3 fields:

Title
Image
Link

I want the view to look like a table, where each field is in a column, and each field type is in a row.

For example, the table should look like this:

Title A Title B Title C

Image A Image B Image C

Link A Link B Link C

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theamoeba's picture

Drupalcon 2009 in Cape Town

I would like to find out how many people would be interested in hosting a Drupalcon 2009 in Cape Town. I think that it would be cool to have one here because there are a lot of Drupal developers in South Africa and Wordpress just had their Wordcamp in Cape Town as well.

So what do you think? I am very interested to hear what you have to say.

J

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Sigal's picture

Open uploaded pdf files in a new window

Hello, hello,

Ts' me again.

What I'm trying to do (Using D6):

In my site I have cck type called: ketubah. Each ketubah should have a select list where each selection opens a pdf file in a new window.

Each ketubah can have a different list, but some of them share the same list.

e.g.

Ketubah: Golden City

Selection list should look like this:

View available text (When clicking on this the selection list should open):
Conservative with English
Reform with English
Interfaith with English
Blank for custom text

What I did:

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Sigal's picture

A problem with FckEditor?

Hello,

I am using fckEditor and creating a page with Full Html with this code:

but when I save the page and go back into edit mode, the line is changed to this:

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ul>

  •  
  • Any ideas why?

    Thanks,

    Sigal

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    Sigal's picture

    Update from 5.11 to 5.12 totally broke my site - please help

    Hello,

    First time I'm trying to do an update, and now the site is broken.

    I tried to undo and redo the update about 10 times.

    I can't restore the database because when I try to import the backup that I made with WAMP I get the error:

    No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration. See FAQ 1.16.

    Lucky for me, I have a working version on my laptop, but again, when I try to export the database from the laptop and import it to my pc, with WAMP, I get this error:

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    perceptum's picture

    Two step select

    hey everyone !

    I need to add a field to a node type that is a two step process. So for example, User selects "vehicle type" from a dropdown list of "BMW, MERC, AUDI". If user selects "BMW" a second list is populated with "740i","320d","640i" which they can then select.

    Does anyone know a way to do this with CCK ?

    Any pointers in the right direction would be rad as well ?

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    Sigal's picture

    How to quote a client?

    Hello all,

    Since I'm new to the freelancing field and to web designing, I need help with learning how to present quotes to clients, especially to clients that don't know yet what they want on their web sites...

    I had a meeting with someone, who needs 4 websites, but doesn't know yet what he wants on the sites.

    He has a general idea, that one of them will be a static site of home, about us, our services and contact us, but the other sites, he'll might want, forums, blogs, and who knows what.

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    Sigal's picture

    Problem with update from 5.11 to 5.12

    Hello, I'm trying to do an upgrade for the first time.

    I followed the steps in the upgrade file, but now when I go to the site I get this error:

    Call to undefined function module_load_include() in C:\wamp\www\westplex\sites\all\modules\cck\content.module on line 49

    Any idea what went wrong?

    Thank you,

    Sigal

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    Sigal's picture

    Design a custom frontpage

    Hello,

    I need to design a site that has a frontpage with buttons that send the user to different "sites", for example:

    1 button will go to Graphic Design and the other button will go to Judaic Art.

    These button should open different pages that look as it these are two different sites.

    I don't know how to create the different looks to all the pages.

    I've created a frontpage cck, but how do I make it that each "site" has a different look?

    For example, different picture in the header, different look to the menus etc.

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    Max_Headroom's picture

    Cape Town meet: When?

    This week of 06/10/08
    0% (0 votes)
    Next week of 13/10/08
    50% (2 votes)
    Week of 20/10/08
    0% (0 votes)
    Week of 27/10/08
    25% (1 vote)
    Week of 03/11/08
    25% (1 vote)
    Total votes: 4
    Undefined.za's picture

    Local Programming Community

    Hi All,

    Over the past few months I have been digressing new (coding) languages and Google has been my new best friend.
    I have stumbed across many international websites offering support and assistance to those who need it - many filled with South Africans. This made me wonder, are there any local programming communities that offer support and are active? Not many.

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    robin.prieschl's picture

    Portable web server

    Hi again..

    I have a scenario and i was wondering if anyone knows of a solution. ok...

    I have 2 machines, Mac at the office and windows on a laptop, I want to be able to develop the same drupal website on both machines, i.e. work on it at the office and when i go home carry on working on it using the laptop. So i thought of some sort of usb webserver of sorts so that it takes the website and database wherever i go so I can continue working on it seamlessly and I am not sure if i want to work on it from online. Quicker on local machine.

    Does anybody have any suggestions?

    Thanks

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