Drupal Configuration

Panels2 and Organic Groups

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panels2 panels 2 drupal organic groups og OG config configuration setup set up how to configure module
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So you want to use drupal's Organic Groups module and Panels2 because you've heard through the grapevine that really slick and useful things can be done with the combo..

Well, here's what one of the experts has to say about it --> http://www.tejasa.com/node/160

highly recommended and very useful...

do it!

Sidebar graphics with links ("promotional badges") the Agaric Drupal way

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show graphics in sidebar on certain pages linked to featured sections easily change graphics in specific sidebar block regions
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A note of warning about the length of notes to follow: This is site configuration at the point where it verges on developer documentation, such is the power of Drupal, and there's some outright theming in here too. This article is a reaction to doing sidebar graphics the painfully non-Drupal way.

Administration menu initial settings

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Administration menu
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For the necessary admin_menu module, I prefer the initial settings to not collapse fields on the modules page

With current initial settings this means unchecking "Apply margin-top to page body" and "Collapse fieldsets on modules page." Instead of going through this step every time this should be rolled into Agaric's basic/base installation profile.

Ask Agaric: More contact page options for redirecting and spam protection

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contact form send message control spam
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Holger Zimmermann sent a message using the contact form at
http://agaricdesign.com/contact-us

Hey,
i found your page by google. Maybe you are kind and wanna help me about my
question. I set up a homepage with drupal. using the contact-formular for
anybody who is visting the site. two problems. 1) if i'm pressing "send"

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Sat, 2008-08-02 14:52
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Ways to share private or pre-publication content with Drupal

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show unpublished node hidden content
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Public Preview
http://drupal.org/project/public_preview

This module allows public access to unpublished content on a per-content-type basis.

http://atendesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2008/06/taming-the-drupal-5-per...
"allowing various roles to view unpublished content without having the ‘administer nodes’ permission in Drupal 5" follow-up

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Wed, 2008-07-16 00:28
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Use "edit" in CiviCRM URL to edit a new contact

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Here's a sample path to create a CiviCRM signup form in Drupal:

civicrm/profile/edit&reset=1&id=1&gid=1

The documentation has "create" instead of "edit". It's not clear whether the problem is that I'm already logged in to Drupal.

by Alan Frankel
Posted on Mon, 2008-07-14 19:08
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Why not WYSIWYG: Style and Markup for Content Management System web sites

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richtext semantic markup CSS WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get BUeditor better than TinyMCE or FCKEditor rte - rich text editor reasons not to use tinymce aside from too complicated drupal jquery rich text editor old editor problems look stupid add / edit text
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The below is the why that goes with this how: Style content in Drupal using standard HTML tags (and have it match your custom site perfectly and meet your styling needs!)

Gus:

Reasons for using semantic tags, with style defined by Cascading Style Sheets, rather than inline as many web rich text editors tend to do their markup:

  • Importance of consistency and not letting people randomly change font size and color.

Node relativity display: do not show children

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can you help me make node relativity not show the children list below the node like that?

Go to administer settings or whatever Node Relativity and click on the Display Settings tab, and change the section from a number (weight) to zero - 0 - which means don't display.

Agaric asks itself: help. views arguments? Taxonomy, nodes, and context

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views arguments taxonomy terms show other content type nodes with term do not show term on node auto term content type Drupal view add taxonomy term as argument
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The Question: How to use arguments to make a block view show content associated with pages

ok

The views argument is set to Taxonomy term ID.

This is pasted into the Argument Handling Code textbox (without the wrapping php tags)

<?php
if ((arg(0) == 'node') && (is_numeric(arg(1)))) {
$industry_node = node_load(arg(1));
$tids = array_keys($industry_node->taxonomy);
// this will only work correctly when the single term associated with an industry node is its industry term
$args[0] = $tids[0];
}
?>

Steps to Follow on All Agaric Sites (default configuration destined for an installation profile)

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standard steps to incorporate into an installation profile Drupal configuration for all sites install checklist
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This document is a part (soon to be an automated part) of Agaric's ultimate site deployment checklist.)

Make automatic with a custom Agaric installation profile