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Needs Improvement

Workable solution needs improvement

Sites-available configuration and symlinking best practices

beats by goose is in D5.1 so Agaric needs to get it to point to a directory specifically so the default can be made 5.2

This is the model it's currently following, below, for the general redirection:

But the one working to send Agaric to the drupal 5.2 directory isn't using NameVirtualHost, so I'm getting rid of it. I'm also putting in the options follow symlinks etc directory four line set.

And of course I add in the ServerName and ServerAlias lines for djgoose.net etc.

Putting apache config files under version control

Is there anything wrong with putting apache.pem in version control? I hope not.

I had to make it chmod 644 instead of something like chmod 600.

The symlinks in sites-enabled did not survive being put in version control-- they turned into physical files.

Resolution

Error on comment submission caused by casetracker mail (not yet set up)

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /var/www/drupal-5_2-live/modules/contributed/casetracker-5.x-1.1.tar/casetracker/casetracker_mail.module on line 115

This error came on submitting a comment.

Resolution

Dan disabled CT Mail until Agaric labs gets around to debugging it, configuring it, or at least trying to use it.

Nesting nodes, nodes connected to sections depending where in the site they are created

For WSF2008, we may want to create content to be connected with the city or country portal.

Possibility:
http://drupal.org/project/og_subgroups

but no, not for WSF, because we need major panels action.

organic groups panels drupal
organic groups panels integration

A possible alternative to panels would be theming content type templates to include all the views and calls we want.

Find a term ID (working around the category module) to have a node behave differently

find out what category vocabulary id drupal

probably easiest just to look in the database-- the vocabulary table lists names with vids, you can then go to the term_data table and sort by vocabulary if necessary, and look up your category by name.

Other option is to print_r everything about the category node.

For more, see:
http://drupal.org/node/113651

Resolution

We did it our way. Here's the messy, just-got-it-working

Stopping pathauto from attempting to use special characters that end up encoding uglily

When a pattern includes certain characters (such as those with accents) should Pathauto attempt to transliterate them into the ASCII-96 alphabet? Transliteration is determined by the i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory. This option is disabled on your site because you do not have an i18n-ascii.txt file in the Pathauto directory.

Resolution

cp i18n-ascii.example.txt i18n-ascii.txt

Just to give the option. we don't have to use it.

This has to be repeated every time we update the pathauto module.

Assigning geographical coordinates to Drupal content and using it to select or sort nearby content: brainstorm

location (API, module)
http://drupal.org/project/location

location.module supports proximity searches for content. Content (i.e., 'nodes') can be tagged with a physical snail mail location (whether full or partial). What number of location fields (e.g., 'street', 'city', 'postal code', 'country', 'province') are collected for each node type (and whether they are required or optional) is configurable in the default workflow for each node type.

Clean up an XHTML OpenOffice document for web publishing using RegEx

Preparing a document saved as XHTML from Open Office (StarOffice/OpenOffice format) for Drupal or other web site or wiki content management system.

Resolution

Using SubEthaEdit in this case, but TextWrangler and any regular expression text editor aught to work (open source free software text editors recommended for Mac would be great to know, if you care to tell us).

Removing all the junk with extremely rudimentary regex skills:

Organization affiliation profile field that helps list users of one organization together

Pierre George described it best:

there is a list of self declared organisation represetnative which is highlighted , anyway the organisation is not a structural object in this site ( contrary to wsfprocess.net ) - organisation are just mentions that people declare when they sign

Resolution

This will be implemented with an autocomplete taxonomy.

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