November 2009

03
Nov
2009
Grayside

Prepopulating Casetracker

The Prepopulate module for Drupal is a nifty little tool that resets the default values of forms on their way to the browser. This is particularly useful for crafting links to create nodes with pre-set values. You can even prepopulate Case Tracker form values to help users create cases filled out as you would like.

Terms: 
drupal
casetracker
prepopulate
10
Nov
2009
Grayside

CCK Fields and the Open Atrium Node Form

OpenAtrium has some pretty slick styling of it’s node add/edit form. Unfortunately, when you add a CCK field to it, you get something comparatively under-styled and in the main column of the form.

If you want to get that slick styling and move the CCK fields to the right, try the following:

  1. Go to admin/build/modules and enable the Fieldgroup module under CCK.
  2. Go to the Manage Fields page for your content type. Create a new group, the machine name starting as group_sidebar.
Terms: 
drupal
cck
node-form
openatrium
12
Nov
2009
Grayside

Using Nano with Drupal

Janak Singh had a great introduction to tailoring Nano for use with Drupal. Here are the details of how I use Nano.

Terms: 
drupal
development
nano
12
Nov
2009
Grayside

Remove CCK Fields from the Node Form

There is a fine tutorial on drupal.org describing How to set the disabled attribute of a CCK field on your node add/edit form. All that does is deactivate the input widget without removing the clutter. Let’s get rid of the form elements entirely.

To actually remove the field from the input form, change the _mysnippet_fix_disabled() function to the following:

Terms: 
drupal
how-to
cck
node-form
16
Nov
2009
Grayside

The State of Drag-n-Drop File Upload in Drupal

This post briefly evaluates the available modules for Drag-n-Drop File Upload & Management in Drupal. Quick summary: It is a sad and sorry thing, with most of the long term solutions in an infant state, and the mature solutions declining or in need of a massive overhaul to stay relevant in Drupal 7.

Terms: 
drupal
file-upload
swish
modules
20
Nov
2009
Grayside

Freelinking 3: Forging Ahead

Since I have recently become a co-maintainer on Freelinking, and am now leading Freelinking 3 onward to the next Alpha release, I felt a need to philosophize about Freelinking and where it is going.

Terms: 
drupal
freelinking
FL3
30
Nov
2009
Grayside

Casetracker with Subtasks

The Case Tracker project provides a fairly straightforward issue tracker. In the future it will provide more functionality, but for now certain types of customizations are left to the end user. This post describes an attached module that provides a simple up/down relationship to Cases using CCK.

The previous code snippets have been removed because I packaged this up in a formal module. Download link at the bottom.

Terms: 
drupal
casetracker
subtask
customize