boxes

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.

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