Drupal 6

Ran into a problem with a migration. Found this thread useful: http://drupal.org/node/511690

Ended up getting a successful drush connection using, drush -u 1 cron, drush -u 1 updatedb, etc. The site is owned by raknight, so my usual credentials didn't work. 

Updated – 02-17-2010

The new beta of Managing News has some changes to channel tagging. In order to summarize the most relevant data across a number of feeds, a "tag" can be applied that allows for grouping of like items based on the tag. For any particular incident, we'd be able to develop a set of keywords for searching out sources (Google, local news, Twitter, etc.) and tags for organizing content in near real-time.

Project Idea

I've been working with Open Atrium (OA) for the past several months. I'm interested in collecting reference links from others about how they are using OA so we can learn how to better use this amazing set of tools.

For the Title and Pay Plan application, I had been using the standard views filtering to display a paginated result set of several hundred rows formatted as a table. As you know, the standard Views UI form uses a text field to accept user input. The clients didn't want to have users type, but rather select from a drop down menu.

For the Title and Pay Plan applicaiton, we are using a technique to display information that embeds a view into a node. You might wonder huh? I know nodes. I know views. Why combine them? Here's a picture of how it is being used.

For the Title and Pay Plan project, I made extensive use of the node_import module. Here are a few of the challenges I had with getting data imported.

Background

I've been following the developments at Development Seed regarding their work in Open Atrium. Development Seed has also been working on another project entitled Aegir. From the project page: "Aegir is a set of Drupal modules that help you maintain your Drupal sites."

I've been collecting ideas to blog about. I'll give each of these its own post over the next couple of days.

As I migrated my old site off Joomla and into Drupal, I noticed it was about a year ago that I first dove into Drupal. It all began with some Lullabot training. We had hired Lullabot to provide 3 days of in-house training to about 20 staff. I find CMS's and development frameworks interesting and had been working on learning CakePHP well enough to migrate some of my custom apps from Fusebox v3 to Cake; sweet.

In August 2009, I started moving an old version of my site that had been in Joomla into Drupal. I began by migrating the articles written in Joomla (and prior to that PHP and prior to that HTML) to become pages in Drupal. Since a page typically is static content, I'll probably do some theming to mark this content as older via taxonomy settings. Some of it is ancient and isn't useful to anyone but me as I recollect decisions made about PHP programs, libraries and logic.