June 2010

03
Jun
2010
Grayside

Integrating the Features Server into OpenAtrium

Working on integrating the Features Server feature into OpenAtrium. My intention is to set it up as another Casetracker Project type.

OpenAtrium provides a solid case tracker and documentation system, and is a natural fit for the infrastructure of a Drupal.Org-style project ecosphere. Integrating them will allow me to post Features I’ve created to a place where I might actually have a means to get feedback on my work, let alone provide support.

Terms: 
drupal
openatrium
features-servers
09
Jun
2010
Grayside

Automatic Nodetitles is Usually Overkill

I’m not a huge fan of the Automatic Nodetitles module. It’s got a lot of user interface overhead, and yet I’ve never given a non-programmer access to that administration page. On top of that, someone gets a headache from it on one of the forum sites I frequent every few weeks.

For those with the programming chops to avoid it, why keep the overhead of an entire project, when a custom module snippet will probably be more than enough?

Terms: 
drupal
node title
09
Jun
2010
Grayside

Drush with Bash Aliases

I’ve been looking for some decent ways of managing the use of modules hosted in random Features Servers. Particularly, how do I use Drush as seamlessly with a Features Server as it works with Drupal.Org?

It turns out that Drush has a lot of special options buried in the pm-download (dl) command, the very Drush maneuver most helpful for my goal. Naturally, these options can be included in a Bash Alias for Drush.

Terms: 
drush
features-servers
15
Jun
2010
Grayside

Optional Spaces Integration for a View

If you want to make an exported [node-based] View smoothly integrate with Spaces, you can use the following code to modify the View structure with the “Content in current space” filter. This filter does nothing if the View is not itself in a Space, otherwise it restricts all results to content in the same space. Add any conditions you want to control whether the Spaces integration is applied.

Terms: 
drupal
views
spaces
15
Jun
2010
Grayside

Firefox's Custom Keywords and Drupal

If you’ve delved into some of the enhanced bookmarking magic in Firefox, you know that entering the world of the Organize Bookmarks tool provides some additional options in how you save your bookmarks.

Terms: 
drupal
firefox
bookmarks
21
Jun
2010
Grayside

Modifying Contexts the Old-Fashioned Way

There are two ways to change contexts. The new awesomeness is to use Features or other exportable techniques to create a new version of your modified contexts, and push the old ones out of the way.

However, when I avoid hacking [atrium] core, I prefer the old way–today that’s alter hooks.

Terms: 
drupal
context
don't-hack-core