Zack WIP Journal

Notes on current projects that are in progress

Wiki Pages

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

Export Content Type on Old Installation
Import Content Type on Upgraded Installation
Export View on Old Installation
Import View on Upgraded Installation
Export Content of Content Type on Old Installation
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

All CSS theming is fully commented in the global.css document in the eriomega theme

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
Footer block at bottom
- Pushed down 50px in CSS code
Title on front page hidden in global.css
- .front h1.title {}

People Quicktabs

Quicktabs of vocabulary "Employee Categorization"
- Administrative Staff=term ID 6
- Compute Staff====term ID 7
- Research Staff====term ID 8
Page View = 'people'
- Filtered by
  - Content type = Bio
- Contextual Filters
  - Content: Has taxonomy term ID ------> Specify validation criteria -------> Categories ---------> Employee Categorization
  - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>Filter Term Type ----> Term ID
- path = people/%
  - % shows that it is getting a variable passed from quicktabs equal to the term ID of the category of the employee

To Do

Fix titles so they are displayed on all pages other than home
Add gallery and upload image
Get migrate module and get Aaron to help migrate features
Full menu
Need calendar module

Activated Modules

Quicktabs ------------------------------Needed for People/Research
- Quicktabs Style module activated, but do we need it?
~~CKEditor~~---------------Couldn't figure out how to use it...leaving it out for now.
~~Admin----------------------------------Testing to see if it allows rearranging items~~
- You can rearrange by hiding 'weights'

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.

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