Workbench module

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 14 - 21.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Update Election 2013

New Case studies section on Drupal.org

Drupal core announcements: Feedback needed on how themes should declare their layouts

Great Posts and Tutorials

Symfony and Drupal 8: The lowdown from Symfony Live London

Drupal Commerce - Different prices for different customer groups

Module Monday: Clientside Validation

Drush Tip: Quickly Sync Files Between Your Environments With Rsync

Taming FacetAPI paths

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 1

Interesting New Modules

Composite Views Filter - Allows you to create one filter condition that enables several filter conditions.

Leafbean - Leaflet + Bean for a simple map block - Using an addressfield, the user can enter an address that will be geocoded into a rendered leaflet map.

Open Badge-It - This module allows you to create badges, award them to users and allow users to issue their badges to an obi compliant backpack like Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure.

Image or Video field formatter - Adds a field formatter for a media field that can either be an image or a video.

Worbench Moderation OG - This module allows integration between workbench moderation and organic groups. Organic group roles can be defined to be responsible to perform different transitions that will move content from the different stages.

Workbench Email - Provides a way for administrators to define email transitions and configurable email subject / messages between those transitions.

Feeds Readability Parser - A Feeds parser plugin that extracts the title and content of a webpage using a PHP port of Readability.

Raptorize - This module will enable frontend, inline editting using the HTML5 Raptor editor. Raptor is a HTML5, JQuery UI enabled editor with a GPL licens. See https://www.raptor-editor.com for details

Shiny (Administration theme) - The admin theme used in Commerce Kickstart v2.

Druplippy - This appears to be a very serious port of MS Clippy to Drupal.

Slides - Allows the easy creation of slides to create HTML presentations for display using reveal.js.

views_timelinr - Integrate jQuery Timelinr-Plugin as a Views Plugin.

Menu Listchildren - Allows the creation of parent menu items which simply point to a page listing the child items.

Responsify - Allows you to set up devices which have FROM and TO pixel breakpoints. You can use these devices in drupal_add_js calls to load in different JavaScript depending on whether the user is in the device bounds you specified.

Wayne EakerSeptember 21, 2012

Analtyics Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Maps Menus Solr Symfony Theming Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: June 8, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:46:08 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 8, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 1 - 8, 2012.

Drupal News

The Kernel has landed

Angie Byron: One Drupal 8 Slide Deck To Rule Them All - Please give this at your local event!

DrupalCon Code of Conduct (Revised Draft)

Drupal Security Team update - June 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Watchdog: Workbench: Content Management with a Short Learning Curve

Palantir: An All-New Zen with the Same Guiding Principles

Modules Unraveled Podcast: Earl Miles and Getting Views In Drupal 8 Core

Importing WordPress blogs into Drupal

Interesting New Modules

Microsites - Provides a site-within-a-site capability. Microsites are individual nodes which are specially enabled to provide their own context, menu, breadcrumb and other settings.

Entity Reference Or Create - Provides an alternative input method for Entity Reference that allows users to either select an entity or create a new one.

Field option values - Provides a UI for setting the values function callback that overrides the list of allowed values in an Options field.

Menu Badges and Link Badges - Provides a method for adding iOS-style badges to menu items and links rendered by theme(‘link’) and l().

Quiz Dependency - An addon to the Quiz module which adds the concept of dependency to quizzes, so that the availability of one quiz can depend on the outcome (completed, passed, failed) of a another quiz.

jQuery File Upload - Enables the jQuery File Upload plugin for use with Drupal 7’s core File Field module.

Search API Statistics - integrates with Search and Facet APIs. It logs search queries (keywords and facets) and provides site maintainers with a visual representation of the collected data, which can be shown as a simple list in a block or as a chart. It integrates here with the Views module.

Views Filter Display Results - Adds a ‘default value’ for contextual filters which can be set with a view, which allows you to do things like exclude results in a view based on results from another display in that view.

Commerce Services resources - Integrates Drupal Commerce with the Services module’s REST server.

Organic Groups support for the User Import Framework - Add all users in the CSV file to a set of groups by default, or add a new “groups” column to your CSV file, to add specific users to specific groups

LDAP extras - Extensions to the LDAP module that allows changing the LDAP user password and creating LDAP users directly from Drupal.

Drush Developer - This module extends drush with several commands that aid in developing a Drupal site.

Wayne EakerJune 8, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 DrupalCon Munich Drush FieldAPI LDAP Menus Migration Organic Groups module Search Security Services module Theming Views module Wordpress Workbench module

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:20 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 25, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: May 18 - 25, 2012.

Drupal News

Earl Miles: Views in Core for D8

New Drupal 7 core co-maintainer: David Rothstein

Drupal Association Launches New Supporting Partner Program

Drupal core announcements: Selecting an Http Client

Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation and Beyond

merlinofchaos to keynote Drupaldelphia (Drupalcamp Philadelphia) June 22nd

Great Posts and Tutorials

Adding CSS Classes to Blocks in Drupal

Non-Blocking Loading Of 3rd Party Scripts In Drupal

The Drupal Mobile Process

Prototyping Responsive Websites - Part 1

How to use $form['#attached'] with a JavaScript setting in Drupal 7 Form API

Calling Views from a Custom Module

Interesting New Modules

TwitBot - This looks pretty awesome. It allows drupal to react to mentions on Twitter, using the Rules module.

Views Destination - Add a field handler to views so that you can set destination of any link after submit.

IMCE plupload - Uses the 'plupload integration' module to integrate plupload into the IMCE file browser.

Context Mobile Detect - Helps with detecting mobile devices.

Browser Tag - Integrates with Browscap to add a class to the body element of the page to denote which browser the page is being rendered in.

Popcorn.js - Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Think jQuery for video.

Usable Fields - A form widget for select (multiple) lists with 50+ options. No code yet, but excited to see this. OG with 15,000 groups can bring the node form to crawl.

Commerce Contributions - Provides a way where users can contribute/invest/support a specific Project/Organization/Cause with Drupal Commerce.

Commerce External Links - Displays a custom message to customers leaving the site with items in their shopping cart/basket.

CK Content Injector - Enables a developer to build there own custom content injector using the CK Editor.

Claim Node Author - Allows a privileged user to claim to be the author of a particular node.

Workbench Moderation Types - Allows different workbench moderation states and transitions per node type.

Premium Responsive - A nice looking responsive theme.

Wayne EakerMay 25, 2012

Context module Drupal Drupal Commerce Drupal Community FieldAPI FormAPI Javascript Mobile Responsive Design Theming Twitter Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: August 12, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:57:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: August 12, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 5 - 12, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver 2012 Call for Speakers

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Turning the CIA's Data into Pretty Pictures on Your Site Using Views - uses SPARQL and CIA Factbook data (Part 2 is here.)

Drupal 7 Tip: Adding Contextual Links to Anything

Debugging Email Messages in Drupal

Drupal's Increasing Complexity is Becoming a Turnoff for Developers

A Beginner's Guide to Caching Data in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Field Display Label - Have a different field label for display and editing.

Ultimate Cron - Includes parallel execution of cron jobs.

Entity Reference - A field type that can reference arbitrary entities.

Node Reference View Formatter - Adds field formatter to display referenced node's data.

WYSIWYG Codemagic - Nice editor for writing HTML source code.

Publish Date - For moderation, use the published date instead of created date in RSS or other node sorting views. Works with Workbench and modr8.

Media and Plupload Connection - Use Plupload multi-uploader with Media fields.

Video Embed Field - Embed Youtube videos by URL with this field.

Wayne EakerAugust 12, 2011

Caching Drupal DrupalCon Denver Email Views module Workbench module

The Week in Drupal: August 5, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:48:19 +0000

The Week in Drupal: August 5, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of July 30 - August 5, 2011.

Drupal News

Take the State of Drupal 2011 Survey

DrupalCamp Atlanta (October 1) Registration is Open

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Controlling Node Access in Drupal 7

20 Exercises for Drupal Site Builders

Workbench Suite Overview

Using Rules to Set Active Menu Items

Stella Power on the Coder Module (Podcast)

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Nodeview Limit - Redirect users after they view specific types of nodes a certain number of time. Allows you to create something like the New York Times paywall.

Context Inline Editor - Edit Contexts (block weights) without having to install the Admin module.

Menu Context - Set context based on the active menu item.

Facebook Events - Connect Facebook events to Drupal nodes.

Webform Table Element - Render multiple Webform elements in a table.

Webform AJAX Page - AJAX paging for Webform forms.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration and Highrise Webform Data Integration - Create new CRM contacts with Drupal.

Wayne EakerAugust 7, 2011

Context module Drupal Rules module Security Webform module Workbench module