Drupal
Drupal Modules and Modifications
Submitted by dmt on Wed, 2008-08-20 13:27This page has a complete list of the CS Club's modifications to Drupal and its modules. [Read more...]
Drupal taxonomy changes and eye candy updates (update 1)
Submitted by dmt on Tue, 2008-08-12 17:59We have many new modules but before getting to that, I have added two new Taxonomy Vocabularies (sets of tags). [EDIT: I got rid of the new Section taxonomy because my ideas about it were just too complicated. Since it wasn't used for anything, it is being renamed and repurposed.]
The two new Vocabularies are:
- Event Type - To describe the type of event that an event is. Examples: meeting, table, speaker (it's easier to spell than colloquium), lan party, and so on. In the far, far future it might become possible to color-coordinate the calendar based on this information.
- Security - For creating pages that will not be visible to the average user, using the Taxonomy Access Control Module.
I also considered re-enabling the Book module to put Pages into Sections, but we can probably handle sectioning through the tags taxonomy.
The current Tags taxonomy will continue to be used for listing what a post is about. Go nuts with it. Now for the new modules: [Read more...]
Comments re-enabled
Submitted by dmt on Tue, 2008-08-05 12:46I knew something was missing after the upgrade (besides the users since it's summer), but I couldn't quite tell what it was. This was it: the "add a comment" links were not there because comments were disabled on new posts. Looking back, they were disabled on a lot of old posts, too. I have enabled comments by default for new blog entries so this should not be a problem now.
Settings set in comment settings of admin/content/node-type/ for all the node types
- Default comment setting to Read/Write instead of Read Only.
- Comment Controls display above the blog instead of "do not display"
- Comment submission form display below post or comments instead of separate page
- Display order: oldest first.
I also discovered the comments queue in admin/content/comment and approved a few comments that had been waiting for several months. [Read more...]

