Our mission is to connect Drupal users in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and surrounding areas. We get together monthly for presentations, site demonstrations, and hack nights. Our goal is to help new Drupal users get up to speed, foster the development of existing Drupal designers and Developers, and contribute to the larger Drupal community. The Research Triangle has a big concentration of technical folks, universities, and start-ups and we want to expose as many people as possible to Drupal and all that it offers.
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Find us on IRC at #drupal-nc and on Twitter at TriDUG
Is it too early?
After some very generous help from a fellow triDUGer, I found that the site I want to build is much less complicated than I had envisioned. Thank you Allen! The one question I forgot to ask was D6 or D7?
Read morehow to change the nightly backup location .
nightly backup script (aegir_backup.sh ) works and stores backups in the /aegir/backups directory but i would like to change the backup directory to different place as i run another cron job which deletes backups which are older then one week .As it also deletes all backups which are done by users through normal site backup through aegir front end. i would like to change the nightly backup location so that the backups created by users wont get deleted.
can any one help me to do this.
thanks
Read morebanner question
I have successfully enabled a banner which currently runs on my home page. Ideally what I would like to do is have a fixed image on my home page and have the banner which consists of a number of different photos run on a smaller scale below the main photo. Any input on how this may be accomplished would be appreciated.
Regards,
Mark
Programatically adding taxonomy term to node
I'm trying to programatically create, and add a term to a node. Here's what I've got so far:
function mymodule_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $teaser, $page) {
if($node->type == 'robot_club') {
switch ($op) {
case 'insert':
// create new taxonomy term
$termname = $node->title;
$term = array(
'vid' => 6, // Voacabulary ID - robot_clubs
'name' => $termname // Term Name
);
if (taxonomy_save_term($term)) {
$newterm = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($termname);
$node->taxonomy = $newterm;
} else {
Read more Need a ride to Drupalcamp Boone
Hi, there
I just arrived Durham for two weeks and have no car yet.
I plain to attend the Drupalcamp Boone at 28/8 and wondering if there any ride could be taken.
I can share the fee of gas and hotel.
Anyone who near by duke uni. or Durham and would willing t pick me up, please contact with me: trftky@gmail.com
Thanks a lot
Kevin
Read moreUpcoming Drupal events in the region
A friendly reminder for those interested, Drupal Camp Boone is being held on the campus of Appalachian this Saturday. Directions and information on presentations are available on the event website: http://www.drupalcampboone.com/
There is also a camp in Asheville on September 18th and the big regional camp in Atlanta on October 2nd.
Read moreAssociating taxonomy with a user
After some great help by @afreeman on Friday, I've got a solid plan for implementing a lightweight user grouping function on my website. In a nutshell, I have "Club" nodes, that users can associate with. A taxonomy links the two. First problem: it doesn't seem possible to link a taxonomy term with a user. So, I'm using Content Profile, which turns user profiles into Nodes. Using this I can associate the user's profile node with a taxonomy term.
Read moreDrupal Coder Lounge Sept. 9th @ DesignHammer
Calling all Drupal developers! DesignHammer has volunteered to host a coder lounge on Thursday, September 9th. No presentations, no group discussion: the group will be focusing on the contributed module codebase.
Possible activities include:
* Patching existing contributed modules (Drupal 6 or 7)
* Porting modules to Drupal 7
* Adding tests
Read more Any Thoughts on Acquia Network Drupal Support
Does anyone have any experience with the Acquia Network Drupal support? I'd be looking at the base package - http://acquia.com/product-matrix - $350/year for 10 search slices and access to the support forum. The forum is most interesting to me. Has anyone used this? Was/is it worth it? How's the response on the forums?
Read moreWill you be attending DrupalCamp Boone?
Bring back hack night?
Great turnout at the meetup, perhaps a sign of things to come?
Wow, what a turnout! Excellent discussions all around and a lot of new faces in the crowd. Thanks to the experienced members of the group for helping with breakout groups.
We're looking for a topic for next month (exact date to be announced). One suggestion was discussing Drupal for small business concerns. If anyone in the group has a topic they'd like to see covered please let me know. Also, if anyone has presentations they'd like to give on a topic as usual contact me so I can add you to the calendar.
Read moreDrupalcamp Atlanta 2010 Registration is Open!
Drupalcamp Atlanta 2010 (www.drupalcampatlanta.com) is now open for registration, and will be held on Saturday, October 2nd from 8am – 5pm at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Our mission and purpose is twofold: (1.) we want to educate people about Drupal and (2.) further evangelize Drupal within our geographic region. The 2nd annual Drupalcamp Atlanta is an attendee driven, completely volunteer initiative modeled after the open, participatory nature of barcamps.
Read moreUsing a CCK text field to relate pages to images for a Nivo slide show
Using Drupal 6.19, Views 2.11, Views Nivo Slider 6.x-2.0
The Nivo slide show works wonderfully; now I wish to associate specific slides to pages.
Qualifiers:
I have a CCK text field, "show on page" ('show_on_page')
I have a nodetype "Slideshow image"
A page node can only have one "show on page" field selection
A SlideShow Image, however, many have multiple "show on page" field selections
My search "yielded no results"
In the past few days I've upgraded from 6.16 to 6.17 and installed CiviCRM.
Since I didn't use the search function during that span, nor in a while, I don't know why or when it broke.
So, it's a church website, I searched my name, "church", "foc", "bible", all came back with: You must include at least one positive keyword with 3 characters or more.
Read morecurious about a slideshow
I'm not sure if this is an easy task or something monumental. What I'm thinking of is a module or some way to use views to have a series of photographs randomly cycle through on a page. Ideally somehow in the background, if that makes sense. I was just thinking about this today and am looking for a starting point. Thanks in advance.
Read moreWrite in campagin for Raleigh, NC for DrupalCon 2012
I just want to put this out there to all of you and ask for your support. I think we should push for the Triangle to be the host for 2012 DrupalCon. I've posted a comment on the following thread and I think we should get as many people as possible to comment there in support of it, but also take the survey linked to in that discussion and write in Raleigh, NC as an alternative city. Lets get our city some Drupal love.
Read moreHow to implement CCK on Views pages
I use a CCK field to attach a specific image type on PAGE and STORY content types.
I have a few nodes on the menu that are "pages" created by Views.
I now see I would like to add that CCK field to these pages, how would one go about adding CCK to a view?
Read moreCommunity Building with Drupal Workshop August 17th @ Duke Corporate Education
At this last meeting Jason and Alice gave some excellent presentations on the strategy behind community building. At the August meeting we're going to look at ways to put these strategies to work!
We will be discussing (as a group, no presentations this month) the pros and cons of various community modules and fielding questions on how to implement specific community-oriented features.
Some possible topics of discussion include:
- Organic Groups VS forum module
- Polls, ratings & reviews
- Events calendars
- Managing subscriptions
- Handling content moderation
Feeds, Aggregators, and such things
I've asked for help on drupal.org, none received. So, reaching out to my North Cack peeps.
I have a site (church site). A member (pastor) has a blog. I want to feature the blog.
Attempt 1: Using core module Aggregator, publish box that has blog title and recent posts. This works, kinda. I get the titles of individual entries, but the url is the same for each one.
Article 1 (links to Article 3)
Article 2 (links to article 3)
Article 3 (links to Article 3)







