This group is for anyone who uses Drupal and lives in or near the State of Wisconsin, USA.
Let's get together and support each other's various efforts to use and improve this great content management and social networking system.
DrupalCorn Camp 2014 in Ankeny, Iowa on July 17-20
We are proud to announce DrupalCorn Camp 2014, to be held at the FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny, Iowa on July 17-20, 2014. If you are an open source enthusiast, Drupal designer, Drupal developer, UI expert, IT manager, or you just want to find out what this Drupal thing is, this conference is for you!
Organized by the Central Iowa, Eastern Iowa and the University of Iowa Drupal Users Groups.
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Diving into Views
Join us as we dive into Views! Views is an amazing module that allows you to build dynamic pages in Drupal. We'll demonstrate how to use Views to build a gallery of photo albums, an employee staff section, and more.
We meet in the multi-purpose room of the Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha at 1330 52nd Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140
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Drupal414: Sprint for Drupal Global Sprint Weekend
On January 25th and 26th, Drupal users all over the world are going to get together to participate in "sprints" as part of Drupal Global Sprint Weekend. Drupal414 will join in the fun by hosting our own on Sunday, January 26th!
A "sprint" is an event where a group of people get together to work on something for a few hours. So, normally we have presentations, hang out and talk - but this would be actually doing something together as a group!
Read moreDrupal414: How to collaborate on Drupal.org and write Drupal 7 modules (the basics)!
The real power of Drupal comes from the thousands of contrib modules on Drupal.org. However, what happens when a contrib module has a bug or is missing a feature that you need?
At this meetup David Snopek will cover the basics of collaboration on Drupal.org (for everyone) and getting started writing Drupal 7 contrib modules (for coders and the coder-curious).
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Breaking Down Drupal
Little late on it this time, but checkout Drupal 262's next user group meeting - we'll be breaking down Drupal to its basics and explaining how regions, blocks, nodes, and all that other lingo build into an awesome site.
Join us as we break down Drupal and dive into how Drupal works. Learn what regions, blocks, node, and taxonomies are, and how they interact together.
We'll be meeting again in one of the multi-purpose rooms inside the Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha building.
1330 52nd Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140
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Adding navigation links to a view
How do you add the list navigation links for 'first', 'last', 'previous', 'next', and the numbers in between to the top of a view? They appear at the bottom by default, but I'm not sure how to add them to the top.
Thanks in advance!
MIDCAMP - Midwest Drupal Camp
REGISTRATION IS OPEN... Have you signed up yet?
MIDCAMP
The Midwest Drupal Camp
March 28-30 2014
Training, Sessions, and Sprint
University Center Downtown Chicago, Illinois
- Awesome Trainings on Friday
- Lots of NEW Sessions
- Tremendous support from our Sponsors (more opportunities available)
- "Famous" or infamous Drupal Personalities will be there
- Wonderful opportunity to learn and have a great time
- Saturday evening outings
- Sunday Code Sprints
- THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Drupal414: How to create a responsive, mobile-first theme with Omega!
So, you've finished building your amazing Drupal site with all the features and functionality you want... BUT it doesn't look the way you want it visually!
To fix this you'll need to build a custom theme. Creating a Drupal theme from scratch can be a lot of work which involves CSS, Javascript, HTML and PHP, which is why most people start with a base theme instead.
Omega is a base theme that allows you to build a custom theme using entirely CSS (and some JavaScript if you want it) - no HTML or PHP required!
Read moreRe-using node content within another node
Seeking easiest/best way to re-use content weekly, and including new date.
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Problems with setting uploading for users
I'm perplexed. I am editing two different sites that both have ckeditor. Both are in D6. I have it set on both sites so that when the user clicks on the image icon in the Body, they are able to successfully upload the image using the box that comes up, and set the different image properties, click OK, and then the photo appears in the Body. No problem there.
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DrupalCamp Chicago 2013 - Sat Dec 7 @ One North Wacker
DrupalCamp Chicago 2013
https://2013.DrupalCampChicago.org
Date: Saturday, December 7th, 2013
Time: 9am-5pm (plus after party!)
Cost: $30
Location:
UBS Tower Conference Center
One North Wacker Drive, Second Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/t5Uod
Directions: https://2013.DrupalCampChicago.org/about/directions
Best search for Drupal site
I am building a site for a friend's on-the-web radio programs, and would welcome recommendations for how to improve upon Drupal core's basic search function, which is too literal for my purposes.
Is it better to add a Google search box, or are there modules you recommend and use? The best I can find is Fuzzysearch, but for D7 it is still in development.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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November Meet Up
Hi everyone,
It's been too long since we met up during the day. Union South has a big tv that connects to a laptop where we can meet (unless someone else has another spot where we can meet and would be quieter).
Agenda Ideas:
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The first group meeting!
Location
1330 52nd Street Kenosha, WI 53140
(Multi purpose room at Boys & Girls Club facility)
- 15-30 minute Meet 'n' Greet to get to know one another.
- 45-60 minute session about the group, our plans and goals, and what exactly Drupal is.
- Remaining time: questions, planning future sessions and social time.
Idea is for meetings to last two hours, maybe a little bit longer.
Basically we would like the first meeting to ease into the group and have everyone become familiar with one another and ideas behind the group.
Read moreDrupal414: Introduction to Behat and automated functional testing
Have you ever ...
- Changed one part of your site and accidentally broken some other part but didn't notice until it was too late?
- Gotten an "unclear requirement" from a client, where you couldn't really tell if you've satisfied it or not?
- Asked non-developers to help with testing, but they missed things or didn't have the time?
If so, Behat might be able to help!
Read moreDrupal414: Let's build ... a Wordpress clone! (using Drupal!)
This is the first in a series of "Let's build ... X! (using Drupal)" presentations we hope to do at Drupal414.
To further feed the fires of competition between Drupal and Wordpress (in a friendly way!), Kevin Ciesielski is going to walk us through the major features of Wordpress and demonstrate how to clone each of them in Drupal.
Please bring your laptop with you so you can follow along!
We'll share news from Drupal Camp Fox Valley (Oct 5-6th)
Read moreDrupal Camp Fox Valley, October 4th, 5th & 6th, Aurora IL.
Far West Suburbs of Chicago
Business Social, October 4th 3pm-6pm, Ballydoyle's, Dowtown Aurora, Illinois
Sessions: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 8am-5pm
Waubonsee Community College Downtown Campus • Aurora, Illinois,
Contributor Sprint, Sunday October 6th 9am, Start Interaction Offices, St. Charles, Illinois
Sponsors have stepped up, Session Schedule is posted! Time to register!
more info at Drupal Camp Fox Valley
Follow @foxvalleydrupal on Twitter for announcements and use the hashtag #drupalcampfv on social networks to add your voice to the community.
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Drupal Association Board Candidates - including our very own Matthew Tift!
Drupal is a community project and has board members that are elected by the community. 13 candidates have put themselves forward for consideration of 2 slots, and it looks like our very own Matthew Tift has stepped forward.
The candidates are listed at https://association.drupal.org/election/3/candidates and there are times to meet all the candidates posted at https://association.drupal.org/node/18443. I was looking through them when I spotted our very own Matthew Tift as one of the candidates: https://association.drupal.org/election-candidate/68.
Read moreSeptember Meetup
Sara Kivolowitz has reserved space at Noodles & Company (3600 University) for the September MeetUp. I'm cross posting it here. See you there!
-Nate
Read moreCome meet fellow Drupal users and engage in discussion of current Drupal topics. Bring questions for discussion by the group. Noodles & Co does have free WiFi.
If you know of some questions you would like to discuss, please email the question.
Look forward to meeting you all!
Sara
Newbie question: creating a taxonomy item view with description at top
Hi,
I am new to Drupal, and am using the Open Outreach project to create a website for a local non-profit radio program. I have created a taxonomy with the name of each radio show (there are 3), and would like to somehow create a page that displays the description of the show (taxonomy term) at the top, followed by a list of all the programs.
Here is an example at the old website: http://www.northernspiritradio.org/index.asp?command=programInfo&id=1
Here is what I can get with the existing "Taxonomy term" view: http://northernspiritradio.net/?q=show-name/spirit-action
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