Views module

The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:19:16 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 29 - January 4.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: January 15th deadline set for configuration metadata discussions

Great Posts and Tutorials

Whats Wrong with the Project Application Queue?

Looking at Drupal 8’s JavaScript Changes

How to: Use Mandrill to Get Drupal’s Messages Through

Interesting New Modules

Views Responsive Grid - Provides a views plugin for displaying content in a responsive(mobile friendly) grid layout.

Opengraph Filter - An input filter that adds an summary of a webpage, from the urls found in the text. Like Facebook does when you post a link.

File Entity Preview - Provides a widget for file fields which displays a preview of the uploaded file as configured with the File Entity module.

GlewTiles - A port of DropTiles code to Drupal 7 as a theme with active Modern UI tiles similar to Windows 8.

MD WordCloud - Creates a block and page for each taxonomy vocabulary and shows it as wordcloud.

Wayne EakerJanuary 4, 2013

The Week in Drupal: December 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:51:37 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 21 - 29, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Overview of the Drupal Fivestar Module

Adding a class to nodes based on their view mode

Setup Markdown Filter with Syntax Highlighting in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Batch add terms - A simple module for batch/mass adding taxonomy terms.

Registration Restriction - Allows site admins to restrict user registration by email domain.

OG Node Access Per OG Role - Provide a view permission for group content per OG role.

Views OG cache - Add Views time based cache per group.

Bootstrap menu - Represent Drupal’s multi-level menus in Twitter bootstrap markup.

Google Content Experiments - Enable the usage of Googles Content Experiments.

Backstretch Formatter - Provides a field formatter for jQuery Backstretch - A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element.

The following two modules are entries for the current challenge at ModuleOff.com.

Date link - Gives you a link on the display of most entities (nodes, users, taxonomy terms, and field collections) which lets you update the value of associated date fields to the current time.

Mark Complete - Enables you to click a link on a node display page that will update a date field to the current date. This is done via AJAX so there is no page refresh needed.

Wayne EakerDecember 29, 2012

Date module Drupal Fivestar module Organic Groups module Security Taxonomy module Theming Views module

The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:11:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 14 - 21, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.18 and 6.27 released - Security update: SA-CORE-2012-004 - Drupal core - Multiple vulnerabilities

DrupalCon Portland 2013: Call for Papers is now Open!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Implementing a donation system with Drupal Commerce

Skipping a Commerce Checkout page in the checkout workflow

Module Monday: Backup and Migrate

Screencast: Drupal 7 Automated Logout

Add custom Contextual Links to Drupal node teaser pages

Introducing Field formatter conditions for Drupal

Mistakes Agencies Make: A Story in Three Acts

Interesting New Modules

Node Field Privacy - Allows you to have an optional “private” status attached to fields. When the private box is checked, only the node author and site admins can see the value of the field.

Views fieldset style plugin - Adds the ability to show views rows as fieldset.

Content Create Access - Allows you to specify for each user which node types they may create. (without using roles)

Apachesolr Link - Enables the indexing of the target of a Link field along with the entity it is attached to in the Apache Solr search index.

Bibliography ISBN - A Bibliography dependent module that will create Biblio nodes based on ISBNs.

Advanced Poll Field Image - Sub-module for Advanced Poll to add Image in Choices.

Crossdomain - Creates a crossdomain.xml file for Flash files. Allows you to use a configuration screen to add additional domains.

Domain Language - Adds a new detection/selection method on the language selection and it allow to set the default language for a specific domain.

Event Confirm - Make the user confirm their action before executing it, with a popup. For example, “This will delete everything, OK?”

Pathauto for RDF - Creates readable paths for RDF versions of nodes.

GAPI - General Purpose Web Services Connector API

Wayne EakerDecember 21, 2012

Business Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Javascript Search Security Solr Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:50:08 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 26 - November 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 announcements: Proposal for RESTful entity API

Drupal 8 announcements: Don’t reimplement support for arbitrary tail paths

Great Posts and Tutorials

Talking to Drupal with Node.js

Creating a Drupal Slideshow with Views Slideshow

Moving Forward with Open Atrium 2.0

Making Drupal more User Friendly

Announcing PixGather - A mobile app to upload pictures to a Drupal site.

Corralling permissions into a grid

Memory usage revisited: when the Open Buffet is not to blame, rather Views

Message-subscribe — A New Subscription System

Interesting New Modules

Transclude - Defines an input filter that uses special tags to insert the contents of an external web page into text. For example, this can be useful is as a way of inserting the text of Wikipedia articles into nodes and having that text automatically updated whenever the Wikipedia article changes.

Word Link - Allows you to replace certain words with links.

Responsive Preview - View the site in different sizes easily with this module. A toolbar is displayed at the top with the configured resolutions. Click one and an iframe appears with the correct size applied. Great for developing responsive designs.

Apache Solr Document Links - Adds indexing of external links the Apache Solr Search Integration module.

Taxonomy Tree Block - Generates blocks of formatted taxonomy menu blocks (in a tree format) on a vocabulary basis.

Bulk User Delete - Allows you to bulk delete users through the admin interface. You provide a list of email addresses, one per line, and the users are deleted using the batch processing API.

Drifter - Allows any field to be floated left or right by providing a simple field formatter setting. A common use-case is floating images off to the side of a node.

Taxonomy Node Type - Automatically adds a taxonomy term to a node based on the node type.

Drupal Commerce MailChimp - This module integrates Drupal Commerce with the Mailchimp API’s ECommerce 360 feature for tracking store statistics for email campaigns sent via MailChimp.

Context Resolution - Extends the Context module with two additional conditions that enable developers to adapt to the users current screen resolution or browser width/height by using context reactions.

Date Facets - Provides date range facets similar to major search engines. (“Past hour”, “Past 24 hours”, “Past week”, etc.)

OG Invite People - Adds a missing invite functionality for OG 7.x-2.x.

Media OG Access - Allows limiting media browser list to media in current group or group subscriptions that the current user is a member of.

Wayne EakerNovember 2, 2012

The Week in Drupal: October 19, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:08:10 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 19, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 12 - 19, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.16 released

SA-CORE-2012-003 - Drupal core - Arbitrary PHP code execution and Information disclosure

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Unify anonymous and authenticated users by separating accounts from users

Drupal core announcements: WYSIWYG in core and consequent filter system changes

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Views Data Export

Angie Byron on Drupal core and Spark (Podcast)

Creating Specialized Layouts with Panelizer

Field API - Creating your own field formatters

How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views

What was that query?

Fast, Parallel MySQL Backups and Imports with Mydumper

Interesting New Modules

Standard Search Result Display - Overrides the core styles and templates for search so they closely match the UI of Google, Bing and Yahoo.

CkEditor Plugin: Google Doc embedded iframe

User Pic Kit - Allow users to choose a picture from multiple providers. Includes integration with Gravatar, Robohash, and Drupal core picture uploads.

Geckoboard Push - For developers who want to show custom statistics on a Geckoboard dashboard using the Geckoboard Push API.

Wayne EakerOctober 19, 2012

Drupal Drupal 7 Drupal 8 Drupal Community FieldAPI MySQL Panels module Search Security Theming Views module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:15:53 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 5 - 12, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Election Results

Drupal core announcements: Backbone or other JS MVC framework in core

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Do core security releases on different dates than bugfix releases

First mobile usability test of D8

Great Posts and Tutorials

Let’s Talk About PCI Compliance for Ubercart and Drupal Commerce

Views Quality Checklist

& Contrib Responsibly">Hacking Core & Contrib Responsibly

Content Syndication Using Services and Feeds

“Drupal distros sound great, but….”

Interesting New Modules

jQuery webks Responsive Tables - An adapter module to integrate jQuery Plugin webks: Responsive Tables into Drupal and make it fit the Drupal specific requirements (like table headers, form tables and others).

Field formatter conditions - Adds conditions to field formatters.

Apache Solr Parallel Indexing - Uses multiple threads to Index content 4 to 6 times faster than normal.

Google Civic - Uses the Google Civic API to provide a polling place locator block and polling place display page.

Webform Submission UUID - Provides a UUID integration for Webform Submissions allowing them to be integrated with external Services, such as with the Webform Service module.

LinkIt UUID - Allows LinkIt module targets to be stored by their UUID, which allows them to survive a migration or syndication to another site.

Node Display Field - Allows a node’s default display mode to be overridden by a field.

Field Collection Tab formatter - Provides a field formatter that allows you to output a multi value field collection field as a tabset, with one tab per field collection item.

ImageField EPS - enables Drupal to provide “pseudo-native” handling of the EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) vector format by providing a custom field to serve this purpose. EUploaded EPS files are converted to PNG for display and can be processed by Imagecache just as files uploaded using the regular image field.

Features AGHAH - Fixes the AJAX checkbox performance issues on Features for Drupal 6.

Wayne EakerOctober 12, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Community Features module Imagefield module Javascript Mobile Responsive Design Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 21 - 28, 2012.

Drupal News

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Dries Buytaert: Views in Drupal 8 and Views in D8 Core Update from Earl

Feedback needed: Should .info files support arbitrary PHP constants?

DrupalPicchu 2014

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

Next Steps for Drupal Commerce

& Modules">Leveling Up Your Themer (lvl0): Contributed Themes & Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part II

Understanding Drupal 8’s plugin system

Interesting New Modules

Better Views Tables - Provides a style plugin for Views which extends the default tables integration and adds some new features: Improved markup for HTML5 sites Responsive table options.

Webform Feeds - adds the ability to use Webform submissions as a source for a Feeds importer.

Mobile Menu Toggle - Creates a block with a “Menu” link that, when clicked, initializes a jQuery slideToggle effect to hide or show the Menu Zone of the Omega Theme.

PDF Construction Kit - The purpose of this module is to create PDFs out of different nodes from the site. It allows you to select different nodes and render them as a single PDF out of those elements.

Render As - Adds the ability for elements to be rendered as a specific user and/or role(s), which can be used for the purposes of testing how content will be seen by another user or a user or a particular role without having to change users.

Mozilla Persona - This module adds Mozilla Persona functionality to your site. Users will be able to login and create an account using this system.

Views URL args - Use URL-provided arguments in views filter criteria, which is currently more flexible than Contextual Filters.

Two-Pass Tokens - “There are some contexts which are built up in the admin interface (Rules comes to mind), in which we want to pull in user-supplied content (in my case, the body of an email). A great feature would be to allow the user-generated content to support tokens in the same context in which it is used.”

Context Reaction: Main Menu - Allows the Context module to change the main menu of the site.

Wayne EakerSeptember 28, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Menus Mobile Theming Token module Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 14 - 21.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Update Election 2013

New Case studies section on Drupal.org

Drupal core announcements: Feedback needed on how themes should declare their layouts

Great Posts and Tutorials

Symfony and Drupal 8: The lowdown from Symfony Live London

Drupal Commerce - Different prices for different customer groups

Module Monday: Clientside Validation

Drush Tip: Quickly Sync Files Between Your Environments With Rsync

Taming FacetAPI paths

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 1

Interesting New Modules

Composite Views Filter - Allows you to create one filter condition that enables several filter conditions.

Leafbean - Leaflet + Bean for a simple map block - Using an addressfield, the user can enter an address that will be geocoded into a rendered leaflet map.

Open Badge-It - This module allows you to create badges, award them to users and allow users to issue their badges to an obi compliant backpack like Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure.

Image or Video field formatter - Adds a field formatter for a media field that can either be an image or a video.

Worbench Moderation OG - This module allows integration between workbench moderation and organic groups. Organic group roles can be defined to be responsible to perform different transitions that will move content from the different stages.

Workbench Email - Provides a way for administrators to define email transitions and configurable email subject / messages between those transitions.

Feeds Readability Parser - A Feeds parser plugin that extracts the title and content of a webpage using a PHP port of Readability.

Raptorize - This module will enable frontend, inline editting using the HTML5 Raptor editor. Raptor is a HTML5, JQuery UI enabled editor with a GPL licens. See https://www.raptor-editor.com for details

Shiny (Administration theme) - The admin theme used in Commerce Kickstart v2.

Druplippy - This appears to be a very serious port of MS Clippy to Drupal.

Slides - Allows the easy creation of slides to create HTML presentations for display using reveal.js.

views_timelinr - Integrate jQuery Timelinr-Plugin as a Views Plugin.

Menu Listchildren - Allows the creation of parent menu items which simply point to a page listing the child items.

Responsify - Allows you to set up devices which have FROM and TO pixel breakpoints. You can use these devices in drupal_add_js calls to load in different JavaScript depending on whether the user is in the device bounds you specified.

Wayne EakerSeptember 21, 2012

Analtyics Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Maps Menus Solr Symfony Theming Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

Creating Custom Drupal Menu Notification Badges with the Menu Badges and Views Modules

Wayne Eaker — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:59:36 +0000

Creating Custom Drupal Menu Notification Badges with the Menu Badges and Views Modules

We’ve just released a new version of the Menu Badges module for Drupal that allows site administrators to create custom menu notification badges using Views. With this feature, admins can now alert users about new content, nodes pending moderation, or anything else that is important on their site. (provided it can be queried with Views) Below is a screencast demonstrating this feature.

Wayne EakerJuly 5, 2012

Drupal Menu Badges Menus Views module

The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:46:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 22, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 15 - 22, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Global Training Days This Friday, June 22

Drupal core announcements: Help needed resolving Drupal 7.15 release blockers

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Security Questions

Building a mobile app API using Drupal, Node.js and MongoDB

Extending Drupal Commons with Feature Alter Hooks

Understanding MapReduce in MongoDB, with Node.js, PHP (and Drupal)

Views Without Views… Introducing “Relevant Content Bean”

Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann and The Open Outreach Distribution - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Automatically backport commits using git

Interesting New Modules

Webform view - Allows you to embed a view as part of a webform. Form elements (checkboxes, quantity selectors) are inserted into each result row.

Dynamic Views Columns - Provides an additional table-like style to views that allows administrators to indicate that only some fields (columns) should be rendered by default but the user should have the ability to add/remove additional fields (columns) through drop-downs below the header and above the filters.

Retina JS image style - Use RetinaJS with drupal core image style.

Select2 - Select2 module adds integration with the Select2 Javascript plugin.

FileField Target - adds a display formatter for field field that allows you to set the target attribute.

IP Subscription - Grant anonymous and authenticated users access to content, based on the users IP address.

Solr Best Bets - Apache Solr provides a feature that goes by the name of “bets bets”, “sponsored searches”, or “editorial boosting” depending on the technology you are used to using. Simply put, administrators can configure which documents are explicitly promoted to the top of the search results or excluded from the result set based on the keywords entered by the user.

Multiple Select Resize - Multiple Select Resize allows the admin user to set the size of a select field by visiting the admin/config/content/multi-select admin page.

STOMP | drupal.org - The Stomp module implements an alternative Drupal Queue backend for queues supporting the STOMP protocol - such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ.

OG access byRole - Control access to OG content by OG role.

Autocomplete FAPI element - Allows you to do autocomplete without including the ID in the text of the autocomplete

Wayne EakerJune 22, 2012

Drupal Drupal Commons Features module FormAPI git Imagecache module Mobile MongoDB Node.js Organic Groups module Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module