Zack WIP Journal

Notes on current projects that are in progress

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
  • No need for Lesson Plans Dropdown
• Administrative
• Contact
  • Can pretty much get rid of submenus
  • Mission is on front page already
• External Links

Front Page

Made from Two Column Panel

Paths

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

Content Types

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

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