Our latest sprint, Cheerilee, brings about two new great features dedicated to our subscribers. We want to hear about what you'd like to see, and once we have the videos you're looking for we want to make it easier for you to find them, and walk through them in a logical order.
In this chapter we will cover a little hidden gem of the calendar module. We will show you how to place a link at the top of a calendar display to quickly jump into adding content to the calendar based on the content type used.
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In this chapter we will show you some configurations of the calendar that allow you to modify how it outputs things like Monday versus Mon. These configurations can be modified in each calendar display and blocks for what makes sense to the implementation used.
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In this chapter we will cover utilizing some built in blocks that come with the calendar module. We'll show you how to setup and configure a mini calendar block as well as an upcoming events block.
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In this chapter we will discuss how an administrator can change the look of a calendar display. Out of the box and using the views template, a calendar is ready to go, but sometimes you just want to change things up. This video will cover the basics of editing a views display to make the calendar week view a list of events instead of the standard calendar week display.
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We're very excited to announce that we now have closed-captioning enabled on our videos. In addition to the help it provides for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, many learners find that they understand new concepts better if they can read what the instructor is saying, as well as hear it. This is especially true for those for whom English is not their native language. This is something we've been wanting to do for a long time, and our subscribers have asked for it, so we're happy to be able to provide it.
New Series: Calendars with Drupal 7
Blog postThis release Wednesday sees us kicking off yet another new series! The Calendars with Drupal 7 series picks up after our Dates with Drupal 7 series and walks through everything you need to know about setting up, configuring and customizing the Calendar module.
We're starting off with the first three videos:
In this chapter we will get a calendar up and running on our demo site. We will cover the necessary modules, how to install them, as well as basic site configurations. We'll also show how simple it is to get a calendar on your site using a views template, and then give a tour of some calendar features.
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In this starting chapter, Karen is going to set up some basic things we'll need to start building calendars. We'll enable the modules we need, including Date and Views, and take care of some core configuration for our dates. Then we'll use Date Tools (which comes packaged with the Date module) to quickly create an Event content type with a date field, and use Devel to generate a bunch of dummy content so we can see how things are shaping up as we start building. If you would like to see more detail about creating Date fields you can review the Dates with Drupal 7 series.
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In this series, we give you step-by-step tutorials to get a calendar on your website.
We’ll create a field that will help you get data into your calendar, go over all the proper modules you need to install, and introduce you to a new way of getting your calendar going with a template. Then we’ll configure some blocks, add them to our website to display a mini calendar and upcoming events, and bring taxonomy in to get some organization inside your calendar. We’ll customize the look and feel of the calendar and get involved in using repeating dates or multiple dates.
By the end of this series, you will become a calendar guru.
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Today we have a new series that we're very excited about! Back in March we talked about a new community initiative called Learn Drupal, and the great plan they have to get more people contributing back to core by creating a ladder of lessons. I've personally started to have some meetups for this here in Copenhagen, and I made some time to create videos to go with the lessons.
Release Day: Finishing up Dates
Blog postThis Wednesday we are wrapping up our Dates with Drupal 7 series. We take a look at some more ways of using dates with the Views module, by using Views to create a summary listing and creating a display of our content grouped by date. The last video in this series introduces the Context module and shows you how to use this with Date context to display one of two blocks, depending on the date for a given piece of content. Enjoy!
In this final video Kyle will show us how to use the Date context module, which comes as a part of the Date project, along with the Context module to display some blocks based on the date associated with the content we are viewing. We create two blocks, one for dates in the future, and another for dates in the past. We then configure Context to display the correct block based on the content's date.
in this chapter Kyle shows you how to create a view of content which shows the content grouped by the year in which it was created. We'll be making a table view that displays the title and post date, but is also grouped such that there will be one table displayed per year.
In this video Kyle will show you how to use views to create a summary list block which lists the months and years for our content, and shows how many posts were created in each month/year. We'll be using Views contextual filters and the core date created field.
For today's releases we are continuing the Dates with Drupal 7 series by playing around more with using dates with Views, as well as turning our attention to having multiple dates in one field and setting up repeating dates on your content. We present:
In this chapter we go one step further with multiple-value date fields, and use the Date Repeat API and Field to create automatically repeating dates. We cover all of the different ways you can configure a repeating date and explain what is going on behind the scenes.
In this chapter Karen introduces you to using the date field with multiple values. She looks at how to set up a content type with multiple dates, tweak the way they are displayed, and also how to use a multiple-value date in a view.
In this chapter we will walk through using dates as contextual filters, also known as arguments in Drupal-speak. We will create a block which shows us content per month, based on pur date field, and allow users to page through the months.
In this chapter we continue working with Date filters in Views and look at using the created and updated core date fields.