Webform module

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:15:53 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 5 - 12, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Election Results

Drupal core announcements: Backbone or other JS MVC framework in core

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Do core security releases on different dates than bugfix releases

First mobile usability test of D8

Great Posts and Tutorials

Let’s Talk About PCI Compliance for Ubercart and Drupal Commerce

Views Quality Checklist

& Contrib Responsibly">Hacking Core & Contrib Responsibly

Content Syndication Using Services and Feeds

“Drupal distros sound great, but….”

Interesting New Modules

jQuery webks Responsive Tables - An adapter module to integrate jQuery Plugin webks: Responsive Tables into Drupal and make it fit the Drupal specific requirements (like table headers, form tables and others).

Field formatter conditions - Adds conditions to field formatters.

Apache Solr Parallel Indexing - Uses multiple threads to Index content 4 to 6 times faster than normal.

Google Civic - Uses the Google Civic API to provide a polling place locator block and polling place display page.

Webform Submission UUID - Provides a UUID integration for Webform Submissions allowing them to be integrated with external Services, such as with the Webform Service module.

LinkIt UUID - Allows LinkIt module targets to be stored by their UUID, which allows them to survive a migration or syndication to another site.

Node Display Field - Allows a node’s default display mode to be overridden by a field.

Field Collection Tab formatter - Provides a field formatter that allows you to output a multi value field collection field as a tabset, with one tab per field collection item.

ImageField EPS - enables Drupal to provide “pseudo-native” handling of the EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) vector format by providing a custom field to serve this purpose. EUploaded EPS files are converted to PNG for display and can be processed by Imagecache just as files uploaded using the regular image field.

Features AGHAH - Fixes the AJAX checkbox performance issues on Features for Drupal 6.

Wayne EakerOctober 12, 2012

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 21 - 28, 2012.

Drupal News

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Dries Buytaert: Views in Drupal 8 and Views in D8 Core Update from Earl

Feedback needed: Should .info files support arbitrary PHP constants?

DrupalPicchu 2014

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

Next Steps for Drupal Commerce

& Modules">Leveling Up Your Themer (lvl0): Contributed Themes & Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part II

Understanding Drupal 8’s plugin system

Interesting New Modules

Better Views Tables - Provides a style plugin for Views which extends the default tables integration and adds some new features: Improved markup for HTML5 sites Responsive table options.

Webform Feeds - adds the ability to use Webform submissions as a source for a Feeds importer.

Mobile Menu Toggle - Creates a block with a “Menu” link that, when clicked, initializes a jQuery slideToggle effect to hide or show the Menu Zone of the Omega Theme.

PDF Construction Kit - The purpose of this module is to create PDFs out of different nodes from the site. It allows you to select different nodes and render them as a single PDF out of those elements.

Render As - Adds the ability for elements to be rendered as a specific user and/or role(s), which can be used for the purposes of testing how content will be seen by another user or a user or a particular role without having to change users.

Mozilla Persona - This module adds Mozilla Persona functionality to your site. Users will be able to login and create an account using this system.

Views URL args - Use URL-provided arguments in views filter criteria, which is currently more flexible than Contextual Filters.

Two-Pass Tokens - “There are some contexts which are built up in the admin interface (Rules comes to mind), in which we want to pull in user-supplied content (in my case, the body of an email). A great feature would be to allow the user-generated content to support tokens in the same context in which it is used.”

Context Reaction: Main Menu - Allows the Context module to change the main menu of the site.

Wayne EakerSeptember 28, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:22:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 22 - 29, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 7 core release postponed; help still needed resolving release blockers

Transitions at the Drupal Association

Dries Buytaert: Drupal governance sprint

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: responsive layouts in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Base Theme Review

Drupal cron failing? Not sure why? here’s a handy drush command.

Module Monday: Custom Permissions

Scaling GRAMMY.com at the High Performance Drupal Meetup

Automatically increment Features version numbers using Drush

Bob Christenson and Making a living in Drupal - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Inheriting your Drupal profile from an existing distribution

E-Learning Institute at PSU: ELMS Beta released and beyond!

Interesting New Modules

Image Annotator - Allows you to annotate images. See this screenshot for what that means.

Panels edition - This module helps manage different “editions” of the front page of your website.

Flag Lists Popup - Provides a popup menu for Flag Lists module.

AJAXBlock - Provides a set of options for turning any normal blocks into AJAX blocks, which do not need a complete page reload when the content changes. Currently works with Webform.

Google Cloud Messaging - Implementation of Google Cloud Messaging for use with Drupal and Rules module.

Simple Views Field - Provides the ability to generate a views lists by choosing from a few simple choices.

Entityreference Bulk - This module offers an entityreference field widget that allows to create referenced entities while creating the referencing (“parent”) entity.

Feeds: Facebook events - Import event data via graph api from facebook.

Login Ticket - Allows for the generation of login-tickets. (a special link that logs in a user when he/she clicks on it) Each link can have 3 parameters: How long is the ticket valid? How often can this link be used? Where is the user redirected after the login?

Wayne EakerJune 29, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:46:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 15 - 22, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Global Training Days This Friday, June 22

Drupal core announcements: Help needed resolving Drupal 7.15 release blockers

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Security Questions

Building a mobile app API using Drupal, Node.js and MongoDB

Extending Drupal Commons with Feature Alter Hooks

Understanding MapReduce in MongoDB, with Node.js, PHP (and Drupal)

Views Without Views… Introducing “Relevant Content Bean”

Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann and The Open Outreach Distribution - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Automatically backport commits using git

Interesting New Modules

Webform view - Allows you to embed a view as part of a webform. Form elements (checkboxes, quantity selectors) are inserted into each result row.

Dynamic Views Columns - Provides an additional table-like style to views that allows administrators to indicate that only some fields (columns) should be rendered by default but the user should have the ability to add/remove additional fields (columns) through drop-downs below the header and above the filters.

Retina JS image style - Use RetinaJS with drupal core image style.

Select2 - Select2 module adds integration with the Select2 Javascript plugin.

FileField Target - adds a display formatter for field field that allows you to set the target attribute.

IP Subscription - Grant anonymous and authenticated users access to content, based on the users IP address.

Solr Best Bets - Apache Solr provides a feature that goes by the name of “bets bets”, “sponsored searches”, or “editorial boosting” depending on the technology you are used to using. Simply put, administrators can configure which documents are explicitly promoted to the top of the search results or excluded from the result set based on the keywords entered by the user.

Multiple Select Resize - Multiple Select Resize allows the admin user to set the size of a select field by visiting the admin/config/content/multi-select admin page.

STOMP | drupal.org - The Stomp module implements an alternative Drupal Queue backend for queues supporting the STOMP protocol - such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ.

OG access byRole - Control access to OG content by OG role.

Autocomplete FAPI element - Allows you to do autocomplete without including the ID in the text of the autocomplete

Wayne EakerJune 22, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: May 18, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:30 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 18, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 11 - 18, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal.org Website Is Stepping Up To Drupal 7

Application Process Opens Today For Drupal Community Cultivation Grants

Great Posts and Tutorials

Impending Drupal Site Launch? Use the List

Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way: Part 1 and Part 2

How to Conditionally Display a Value from Two Fields in Views

Measuring Community Participation in Open Source Projects: Data from Drupal.org

Modules Unraveled Podcast: Steven Jones and The Aegir Project

Filter/Search on multiple fields with Views 3.x

File import improvements for Migrate 2.4

Drupal 7.14 API Compatibility Breaking Change

Drupal with Twig templates

Interesting New Modules

Auto Upload - Removes the need for users to press the 'Upload' button for AJAX file uploads. After selecting a file, it will be uploaded automatically instead.

Detector - Build your own device database for detecting mobile devices so you can serve custom themes, etc.

Hook Priority - Allow prioritization of the Drupal's hooks.

Drummm - DRUpal Much More Monitored - This looks interesting. Like Munin or Cacti, but completely Drupal.

Apache Solr Select Sort - Displays the sort block as a form with select lists as opposed to links.

Amazon Web Services - CloudSearch Integration - Use AWS CloudSearch with Drupal

Webform External - Allows you to store the data for specific webforms in an external datasource that is defined in the settings.php file. Useful for HIPAA data that requires special handling and security.

Entity Reference Count - A field type that will count the number of entityreferences to a particular entity.

Node View Permissions - Enables permissions "View own content" and "View any content".

Permalinks to Nodepath - Switch comment permalinks from node/123/comment/456 to node/123#comment-456.

Quiz Marking - Adds scoring options for the Quiz module.

Wookmark Views - Allows the use of Wookmark's jQuery plugin with Views. This creates a a tiled effect from the items in the view.

Wayne EakerMay 18, 2012

Aegir Drupal Drupal Community Facebook Migration Mobile Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:14:57 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 11, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 4 - 11, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Four Kitchens: Migrating old HTML files into Drupal

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce extra panes

Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x

There is a module for that!: Mediatheque, a Drupal media organizer

A Look at Georgia.gov and “Why Big Sites Run Drupal”

Getting Meta Tags on Views in Drupal 7

Károly Négyesi: Progress on Entity Field Query Views Backend module

Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function

NodeOne: Features Pipexplosion - a great addition

Best Practices for Reporting Bugs

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Tickets - Allows the site admin to create a ticket purchase system.

User Access Control - Allows users to grant other users access to update their content.

User defined permissions - quickly define new permissions through the UI.

OPAC - Allows libraries to make Drupal their public catalogue.

Simplenews SMS - Adds SMS Functionality to Simplenews using Twilio.

WFCC - Copy Webform components from one form to another.

OG Extras - Ceated because the default views and blocks that come with Organic Groups only work in Panels. It restores some of the functionality of the D6 version of Organic Groups.

AMQP - Provides methods for publishing and consuming messages from an AMQP message queue (https://amqp.org/) compatible server, such as RabbitMQ (https://rabbitmq.org).

Wayne EakerMay 11, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:47:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 13, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 1 - 13, 2012.

Drupal News

The Future of Drupal Governance: Resources and Next Steps

Drupal core announcements: UI for hierarchical permissions, introducing permission rules

/drupalgive initiative

UX Team update Q1

Great Posts and Tutorials

Faster Mobile Sites

Using field_attach_load() to load one node field programmatically

Multi-headed Drupal

Module Monday: Flex Slider

Larry Garfield and the Symfony Integration in Drupal 8 (podcast)

OpenAid: A Drupal Distribution for NGOs and Non-Profits

Simple HTTP authentication for Drupal sites

Using Homebrew to Support Drupal on OS X

Using Drush to Mass Delete Comments

Do you want a PM day at Drupalcon? and 5 Ways to Get More Project Management Content into Drupalcon Sessions

Navigating your way in Drupal core development

Interesting New Modules

Geofield Proximity - Adds proximity fields and filters to Views.

Commerce Userpoints Grant - Allows you to sell a "points/credits" product and then grant users userpoints based on the quantity of the product within the order. Works with Rules and Drupal Commerce.

Mobile Switch - Provides a simple theme switch functionality for mobile devices, detected by browscap.

Webform CampaignMonitor - Provides a webform component in a checkbox format that lets you subscribe users to specific lists on Campaign Monitor

Path breadcrumbs - Path breadcrumbs allows site administrator to create a custom breadcrumbs for a custom page. For example, if you create a new page using Views module you may want to set custom breadcrumbs for it.

Wysiwyg TinyMCE Clear Buttons - Adds WYSIWYG buttons that allow you to insert a breaking element that will clear floated elements above it.

Mass Apply Filter - This module will run all nodes of a specified content type through a specified filter.

Nice groups - Provides a UI for picking OG audience that's similar to the Tagging module.

Taxonomy Hierarchy Views Argument - Provides a views contextual filter (argument) that takes a taxonomy term id and sorts (and optionally filters) the matching results in order of their taxonomical relevance (first direct matches, then parent terms, child terms, and finally sibling terms).

Wayne EakerApril 13, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: March 16, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:21:13 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 16, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of March 9 - 16, 2012.

Drupal News

Distribution packaging now fully supported on Drupal.org

Response to publicly posted CSRF concerns in Drupal 7.12

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 8 initiative happenings at DrupalCon!

Content staging in Drupal - let's make a plan

Great Posts and Tutorials

A First Timer's Guide to DrupalCon

Building a Multistep Registration Form in Drupal 7

Using hook_views_alter to Add a "GROUP BY" statement

Drupal's Experience Gap, Part 1 and Part 2

How do I show Apache Solr results in Panels?

Get the raw data from a View with views_get_view_result()

Better Workflows with State Machine 2.x

Greg Dunlap and the Configuration Management Initiative for Drupal 8 (Podcast)

Extending Form API #states with regular expressions

Module Monday: Edit Limit

Interesting New Modules

Recover - "Recover exists because full site backups suck for most day to day problems...select what you want to restore By item or By time." Sounds awesome!

Cross-Browser CSS - Cross-Browser CSS is a simple module that adds the user's OS, browser and browser's version into your body tag as classes.

Webform Calculator - Provides a formula webform component, where you can enter a mathematical calculation based on the other fields.

Referer Context - This module allows you to trigger contexts based on the referer(s) of the current session.

Secrets and File Key - API to store secret tokens/keys in the database and and implementation of the API to only allow file downloading of a file when the secret token in the URL matches.

Commerce reverse payments - Indicate that a refund was given on an order.

Bounce - "The Bounce module collects non-delivery reports generated by remote mail servers, parses these non-delivery reports for response codes, and blocks further emails from being sent to email addresses that have passed a score threshold."

File Filter - This module adds an input filter that allows content creators to add themed files to the body of a node

Dipity Timeline - This module provides a views style plugin to display arbitrary data in a Dipity timeline.

References Manager - Provides an optional page for each references field with a drag 'n drop UI for sorting items via a grid of teaser node displays, or other view mode.

Views RSS: Media (MRSS) Elements - Extension module for Views RSS 2.x, providing additional set of Media (MRSS) elements and field formatters.

Complete profile - Forces the user to complete their profile before they can continue using the site.

Wayne EakerMarch 16, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: March 9, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:41:59 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 9, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of March 2 - 9, 2012.

Drupal News

Configuration management system now in place for Drupal 8

Dries Buytaert: Layouts for Drupal 8

Kris Vanderwater: Drupal 8: Blocks & Layouts Everywhere

Drupalcon: Birds of a Feather (BoF) Scheduler Now Available!

Great Posts and Tutorials

When and how caching can save your Drupal site

Handling long-running background tasks in Drupal 7

Creating an Image Effect to put a play button on Video thumbnails

Module Monday: Rabbit Hole

Earl Miles: The Book of Druplicon

Interesting New Modules

Stripe Webform - Integrates the Stripe and Webform modules so you can accept payments during webform submissions.

ESPN API Integration - A rich integration with ESPN's public AP!s, providing sports headlines, scores, athlete profiles, and other information.

Galleria Commerce - provides a Galleria Node Reference gallery with Drupal Commerce integration, so that users can add gallery images to their shopping cart.

Commerce coupon batch - Create hundreds of coupon codes at once.

REL links - Inserts rel links pointing up, down and sideways to give semantic scrapers clues about the site structure.

RDFviz - Renders the RDFa that your Drupal7 site is outputting in a graphical form.

Apache Solr Field Search - Extends the Apache Solr module. It lets users limit their search to a specific field instead of searching the full node text.

SEO Stats - Search-related statistics including Google PageRank for your site, in your Drupal site.

Text & Integer Field - A compound field with a text field and paired integer field.

Views block area - Put blocks in Views headers and footers.

Views Fields Compare Filter - Adds an exposed filter that allows the user to choose a comparison operation between 2 of the fields selected for the view.

Block Views Visibility - Enables you to specify block visibility based on views pages.

Profile Fields Force Filling - Force users to fill any required profile fields at login.

Image Style Quality - Set an image quality per image style preset.

Wayne EakerMarch 9, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 17 - 24, 2012.

Drupal News

Create a Personalized Schedule for DrupalCon

Drupal in Education Unconference - The Monday before DrupalCon in Denver

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Report from the Budapest sprint on Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative issues

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Loosen rules regarding patches that may be backported during a stable release (7.x+)

Larry Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI

Great Posts and Tutorials

Using the Drupal Batch API - Also demostrates how to write your own Drush commands.

Case study: Big performance gains from small changes

Introducing the Backbone Module for Drupal

Quick Enhancements to Make Drupal Content Admin Dirt Simple

How to send HTML mail using SMTP authentication on Drupal

Understanding the Entity API Module

Programmatically Insert Local Files to Managed Files

Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal (Podcast)

How to split Drupal Commerce orders at checkout

A location based service example using IP Geolocation: map of buyer locations

Interesting New Modules

SimpleAds: A new advertisement module for Drupal 7

Nested Image Style - This module enables creating image styles which inherit image effects from other image styles.

Webform Chart - Displays webform results in a graphically using a charting library.

Path Redirect by Date - Allows you to specify start and end dates for redirects.

PDFThumb - Provides automatic creation of PDF thumbnails in filefields.

Ubercart Combine Shipping - Combine shipping costs for products that need to be shipped by different carriers into a single shipping cost.

Date Popup Restrictions - Restrict the selectable days on a date popup widget. Can be done with form settings or even by using the result of a view!

Report Builder - Report builder allows you to create a table or chart with each data point as the result of a view. Each view has its own set of exposed filters. This allows users to easily create graphs or tables that summarize drupal data, which they can reconfigure and play around with.

jQuery UI Multiselect - This module integrates the jQuery UI Multiselect plugin with existing list widgets. The jQuery plugin is demonstrated at https://www.quasipartikel.at/multiselect.

FileField Role Limit - An extension of FileField module that adds the ability to limit the max upload file size for each different role.

Weform Stepbar - Provides a "step bar" at the top of multiple page Webforms.

Feeds d.o Issue Parser - Feeds parser for drupal.org issue queue threads.

REST Auth - Allows users to login using an external REST service.

Urban Airship - Allows site administrators to use a Drupal site to send push notifications to the Urban Airship service.

Mirror Alert - Helps you determine if other websites are mirroring your site with DNS or using your static assets.

Wayne EakerFebruary 24, 2012

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