MySite

Our university has been using Mysite for a while in a development instance of Drupal that we were hoping to roll out once we upgraded to Drupal 6. However, we had made some significant changes to the way MySite worked: we removed a lot of the pages features, limited people to a single layout and style, added on a feature to restrict applications and droplets to specific roles, and built a public/private interface for our users.

Hi Ken --

I know you've deployed MySite on some large sites, and was wondering if you have any specific comments on the scalability aspects of MySite. Caching of data that gets pulled per user necessary? Fine out of the box because each user has a custom page (assume private)?

Feedback and techniques appreciated.

It's that time. Time to start porting MySite to Drupal 6. It will take some effort, since I will be refactoring some code and doing an API cleanup to more closely integrate with Panels.

One of the coolest features in MySite is the ability to drag-and-drop elements around the page. Problem is, the feature is a little buggy and relies on the jQuery Interface project. Based on some recent discussion, I think a Drupal-specific solution might be best.

Question: How does content locking work in MySite?

When the administrator sets up Default Content for all MySite collections, each individual content element can be 'locked.'

An element is locked by:

-- Adding the element (say, all posts tagged 'foo') to the default collection.
-- Configuring the element (click the configure link) for the default collection.
-- Checking the 'Lock item' box, labeled 'Check this option to display this content to all users at all times.'

Doing so has the following effects.

The first beta for the 5.x.3 release is out. It is likely buggy and needs tester love.

In good news, I did all the testing against pgSQL, so there should not be any database issues.

5.x.3 adds multiple page support and will also include a number of community-driven features. It will also be the version ported to Drupal 6.

http://drupal.org/node/204753

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.

Merry Christmas!

Multiple page support has been committed to HEAD.

It still needs lots of tester love. And, apologies to translators, there will be some necessary string changes in 5.x.3.

While Drupal already has many of the tools necessary to implement social networking techniques on a community site, I haven't found anything that works like the personalized central "News Feed" system in Facebook or Twitter.

I'm curious whether anyone has done any development work, planning or merely thinking about how this might be done in Drupal, and about the implications.

A few technical notes for developers concerning how MySite interacts with non-Drupal data and application sources.

First, a little history. The core goal of the MySite module is to abstract content published to a Drupal site. So the MySie distribution supports content types native to Drupal. The reason for this is scope: I don't have time to solve every problem, so I focus on those.

hi

I think this module will almost fit my needs, but I'm interested in creating 2-3 different mysite templates (let's call it profiles, ok?). For example: I want to create one mysite profile to display owners blog posts for user type - bloggers and second mysite profile to display owners photos for user type - photographer. This is just an example.

I don't want users to create their mysite instances from scratch, but I want to create certain types of predefined mysite profiles users should be able to choose from.