Zack WIP Journal

Notes on current projects that are in progress

Wiki Pages

• Drupal Announcements
• Drupal Calendar
• Drupal Wiki

ERI Migration to D7

Unavailable modules for D7

• BlogAPI
• ImageFUpload
• Image Module (different image module in core)
• ImageAPI (in dev)
• ImageCache
• URLAlter
• Trigger (user rules)
• Views Exporter?
• Sub-path URL Aliasing

Pages needed in new site

• Events/News (which should also contain seminars)
• Anual Reports
• Research (Connected to people?)
  • ->SpotData?
  • What do we do with Awards?
• People
• Outreach?
  • Links broken
  • Should some of it become a 'links' page?
  • No need for Lesson Plans Dropdown
• Administrative
  • Do we need ERI Graphics?
• Contact
  • Can pretty much get rid of submenus
  • Mission is on front page already
• External Links

Front Page

Made from Two Column Panel

• Where are people located?
  • AM Module 1
  • Not really able to edit anything
• Aaron's test module
  • Location: http://eri.ucsb.edu/admin/settings/mission_block
  • Could just export module
  • Rename, or do we want to do it with panels and a module?
• Image Gallery is View Template from Image module?

Paths

• Must export paths from URL aliases module
  • Might have to set them manually
  • In future,

Content Types

Note: Can't currently import content types on some installations. Need to figure out which module adds this option.

News ('news')

• Doesn't seem like we need "news:" field.
• Elements
  • Title
  • Date ('field_news_date')
  • PI ('field_news_pi')
  • URL ('field_news_url')
  • Body (doesn't seem to be a field)

People

• Current "People" view is Aarons test module
  • People aren't in content type, so cant be exported
• Need fields:
  • Name
  • Title
  • Department
  • Image
  • Office
  • Phone
  • Fax
  • Email
• Integration of People and Research
  • Quicktabs
    • Compute
      • Person
      • Address
      • Sites
    • Admin
      • Person
      • Address
    • Researchers
      • Person
      • Department
        • Main
        • Sub
      • Address
      • Research
        • Research Page
          • Link to dept
          • Link to Research tagged with taxonomy person
            • Use "Custom Text" field, and add var to address of view module
        • Dept. Funding Page
  • Research Page
    • View automatically generates table of content type research

Export/Import Workflow

• It seems like this process can be automated using "Features"
  • Still must test

1. Export Content Type on Old Installation
2. Import Content Type on Upgraded Installation
3. Export View on Old Installation
4. Import View on Upgraded Installation
5. Export Content of Content Type on Old Installation
6. import Content of Content Type on Upgraded Installation

Ask Aaron

• Install Features on eri
• Where is the panel on the home page?
  • Or is that its own module?
• Computer Account Request Form was never used -- still form from old icess website
• Reason we can't just upgrade directly
• What is the difference between current eri-dev and live eri site? Which came first?

Theming

• Added bg.jpg, wrapper_bg.jpg, and transparent_header.png to /var/www/vhosts/www.eri.ucsb.edu/sites/all/themes/eriomega/images/
  • For header images and background
  • Wrapper background was uploaded through eriomega theme settings
• Hid site title slogan in "eriomega/css/global.css"
  • Unchecked site name and site slogan in eriomega -> Toggle Libraries
  • Unchecked Menu and Secondary menu also
• moved id zone-menu-wrapper up in global.css
  • using margins
  • otherwise, header image pushes everything down
• Had to make padding-left on #zone-content 30px to push it inside wrapper located in global.css
• Set width and height of background in global.css to make it match up with wrapper background
  • In body
• Disabled page title

Structure

Home is content type Basic Page with alias "home" Mini panel on front page that displays two columns Text content below that that displays links to previous site

Organic Groups

Uses and Advantages

• For creating sort of mini private Drupals within a Drupal site
  • Could be used instead of our quasi-wiki platform.
  • Might be more advanced than we need
    • Researchers could have groups?
• Can be used to control what and where each user posts
• Can be viewable by anyone or members only
• Can have mailing lists
• OGUR allows special user roles within the group

Setup

Must be setup as a Group Type, not Group Content Type (unless for subgroup)

Helpful Links

Forum thread on using arguments in Views: http://drupal.org/node/357082

• Most recent patch can be downloaded here: http://drupal.org/files/views-357082-132.patch
  • Aaron said Chris figured out a way to do this with built in feature.