Zack WIP Journal

Notes on current projects that are in progress

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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

• 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?

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 are people located?
  • AM Module 1
• 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

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