Posted by jhodgdon on October 23, 2017 at 5:03pm
Start:
2017-11-09 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group!
- When
- Thursday, November 9, 2017, 10 AM to noon
We meet on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday of most months at this time/location. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month). - Where
- Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library. From the hallway, go into the library proper, past the checkout/information desk, take a right and you'll see the room on the right.
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- What
- We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table and a laptop on a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!
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Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
There was a change to the Washington state web service URL for looking up sales tax. The 7.x module was updated; 6.x wasn't. You can see the changes here: http://cgit.drupalcode.org/uc_tax_wa/commit/?id=2e2814d
Issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/2908067
Modules:
https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce
https://www.drupal.org/project/ubercart
Shawn says the Commerce project is pretty comprehensive. It is based on Rules. It is newer and was developed knowing what the limitations with Ubercart were.
If you are going to use Commerce, Shawn recommends starting with the Commerce Kickstart distribution.
As a note:
- Ubercart has been ported to Backdrop (at least partially)
- Commerce has a Drupal 8 full release (but not necessarily all the sub-modules)
- Ubercart has a Drupal 8 alpha release
Drupal 6 is already obsolete, insecure, etc.
Drupal 7 will go away when Drupal 9 comes out. There are some prerequisites to that happening. One big one is that the Drupal 7 to 8 migration path has to be stable. So far, it isn't -- actually 6 to 8 isn't either. It's being worked on though.
Another alternative is to migrate 7 to Backdrop -- see https://backdropcms.org -- which is a stable fork of Drupal fairly similar to Drupal 7.
If you have a Drupal 6 site, you can probably move to 7 now. Moving to Backdrop would not be much more effort, so that would be a consideration. It won't go away, unlike Drupal 7.
Some information:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/accessibility/tools-and-best-practices
in Portland, OR -- Feb 3-4
https://www.drupal.org/project/scheduler
To make a blog: make a content type called Blog Item, and make a view that lists them. You can also use a Tag taxonomy to tag them (or categories), so people can find related articles.
https://www.drupal.org/project/pathologic
https://www.drupal.org/project/date
https://www.drupal.org/project/calendar
Might consider just making a list in Views instead of a Calendar per se, as calendar is maybe not so great on phones. Or look at the mini-calendar (part of Calendar views).
Add exposed filters based on taxonomy to your Calendar views.
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Nice meeting you all
I wish I would have came to a get together sooner! It was nice meeting you all, thanks for the advice and hospitality.
I can't remember who the girl was that was working with 'calendars', but let me know if you have any issues or questions, I am very comfortable working with that module and views (ran some site for night clubs and bars that needed total customization). If you get in a bind let me know (ryndog@me.com).
See you all in January.
RynDog (Kevin)
Cool and thanks!
Will do. :)
-Diane Van Etten (diane@vanettenstudios.com)
D7 Ubercart WA sales tax -- module
In case you were wondering, I was able to edit my D6 Ubercart WA sales tax module with the same new URL location patched for D7, and its working! Thanks!
Excellent
I'm glad that worked out for you! Hope to see you at the next meeting...
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