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What are Drupal Panels Contexts | Oct 23 2010 - 11:49am

There is a Drupal module called Panels. There is a Drupal module called Context. There is a feature in Panels called context. Panel's context and the Context module are not the same, not even close. According to Earl Miles, the developer of...

More Drupal Training Scheduled in November | Oct 5 2010 - 8:35am

Even if you aren't going to be the site builder, it is helpful to have some hands-on experience in Drupal so you can communicate productively with your Drupal planner, builders, themers, developers, etc. Drupal Hands-On Intro for Builders gives...

Image Gallery Tutorial: Images Belong to Multiple Galleries | Aug 18 2010 - 11:07am

I did a Google search recently to see how people were creating image galleries in Drupal. I found several options but none did what I needed. So I combined strategies offered by those who have shared before me and came up with a way to have two...

UX Design and Drupal Websites: A Planner's Guide | Jul 31 2010 - 10:10pm

In the past year, the letters UX have grown very popular in discussion posts, job ads, etc. UX design or user experience design can't be defined in a sentence. I found a definition of UX design on uxdesign.com @/a...

Pathauto and Multi-level Site Sections | Jun 14 2010 - 3:06pm

Have you ever needed to automatically create a URL with a structure like the one below?

http://mysite.com/site-section/sub-section/sub-sub-section/node-title

There are a couple ways to accomplish this. The first step is to...

No .htaccess, Not Found Error | Jun 10 2010 - 9:21am

This is just a short lesson's learned I want to share regarding the decoupling of a multi-site Drupal installation. Some of you know that there is a site called a href="http://groups.idcminnovations.com" title="http://groups.idcminnovations.com...

Drupal Websites: A Planner's Guide Site is Open | May 23 2010 - 4:18pm

It's been a long time coming. I have just launched http://planningdrupalsites.com. I have been working on this book between gigs and trying to decide if it...

Using OG Content Type Admin Module | Jan 29 2010 - 10:33pm

You can create more than one group node (the node that creates your groups), but why would you if you couldn’t control which content types are associated with the group node? The organic group content type administration (OG_CTA) module (http...

Drupal Views: Using Term Arguments | Nov 22 2009 - 7:25am

Have you ever wanted to land on a node and have a block appear showing another node(s) that shares the same vocabulary term? This is easy enough if you only have a small predictable number of nodes and terms. You could simply create a series of...

Exploring Node Access in Drupal | Jul 26 2009 - 5:03pm

Node access is not an uncommon topic in the Drupal community so why bother writing about it? Well, if you are new to Drupal or if you have been around it for awhile, unless you have had a need to manage content access, you probably haven't spent...

Managing Group Membership | Jul 16 2009 - 8:13pm

I have had a couple people ask how to manage group membership so here is a quick how-to on the subject.

Drupal Pages and Views: Insert View Module | Jul 16 2009 - 9:33am

This article considers the insert view module as a means of adding a view to a page. With this method, you don't need a unique content type, you just need to enable the insert_view filter. This is probably the easiest way to insert a view into...

Drupal Pages and Views: CCK View Reference Field | Jun 25 2009 - 12:44pm

In this short article, I am going to look at using the view reference module as a means of adding a view to a page. With this method, you can create a content type that has an option to display content from a view. You can use a view as is or...

Drupal Pages and Views: CCK Computed Field | Jun 13 2009 - 11:37am

In this short article, I am going to share with you what Jess Snyder is doing with her sites by using the CCK computed field module. With this method, you can create a content type...

Drupal Pages and Views | Jun 13 2009 - 11:30am

Have you ever wished that the data table you created in a view could be combined with the content of your Drupal page? Below are three ways that you might want to combine your node content and views results. There are more but you get the...

What is Information Architecture? | Jun 7 2009 - 6:32pm

Information architecture (IA) is an emerging practice being integrated into multiple disciplines so it is hard to find one definition that multiple disciplines share. Below are three definitions. What is consistent is the idea that IA is art...

Using OG for Project Management Support | May 30 2009 - 10:05am

Drupal's Organics Group module(s) enables more than community building. Check out Using OG for Project Management Support on IDCM Innovations' group site...

Using OG for Project Management Support | May 30 2009 - 9:56am

This article looks at Drupal's Organic Groups module configuration and access setting for a project management support scenario. I chose this scenario because it doesn’t naturally fall into the social media and networking conventions for...

Planning your OG Site | May 30 2009 - 8:12am

There are many configuration and access options available in OG, how do you decide what you need? Check out Planning your OG Site on IDCM Innovations Groups site.

Planning your OG Site | May 30 2009 - 7:52am

The first observation you probably made when installing and configuring organic groups is the site level or “master” controls versus the node level or “group” controls. The master controls configure the settings that...