March 2010

02
Mar
2010
Grayside

How to Reset MySQL Root Password

Resetting the mysql root password shouldn’t have to happen. But every time it does, I go insane. This page is a set of notes detailing methods that have proven to work.

Terms: 
mysql
password
06
Mar
2010
Grayside

OpenAtrium Empty Views: Gimme That Button!

Do you like the large gray “Add Blog entry” button when you first visit your blog space, and have yet to create anything? Creating views with similar buttons (or adding more) is really easy!

The key is to create Empty text in your view using the Full HTML Input Format. Then, drop some HTML in like this to make use of Atrium’s built-in theming.

Terms: 
openatrium
views
theming
snippets
06
Mar
2010
Grayside

Moving OpenAtrium Node Form Elements to the Right Column

Previously, I discussed how you could move CCK fields into the node form sidebar by careful fieldgroup naming.

If you are of a programmer’s bent, you might instead try the more flexible programmer’s solution–preprocessor function. I dug this out of the atrium_blog feature.

This code snippet isolates a nodereference field attached to blog content and pushes it into the sidebar. This should work to move entire fieldgroups of form elements too.

Terms: 
node-form
openatrium
07
Mar
2010
Grayside

Simple Spaces Recipe for a Static Welcome Widget

One of the little conundrums in OpenAtrium (and I imagine in Spaces) is building static content for the space. (Or in OpenAtrium terms, getting a nice dashboard box to stay put, yet be customizable by group.)

There are countless ways of doing this, but I opted to create a CCK Textarea field in my group content type (named field_group_welcome_message) and turn on the PHP filter.

Terms: 
openatrium
spaces
dashboard
boxes
27
Mar
2010
Grayside

Freelinking 1.9 Release Sighted

Freelinking 1.x was previously announced as feature-frozen, and the next thing to unsupported. Looking at the long development cycle for Freelinking 3 reaching stability, the issue queue was dusted off.

Freelinking 1.9 will fix a number of bugs in 1.8, and smooth out the transition to FL3. Please go on over to the Freelinking homepage and download the dev version to try it out.

Freelinking 1.9 will be released this week.

Terms: 
freelinking
modules
drupal6