Shows how to associate and create a relationship between two nodes with the node reference field type, and how to set up the node reference URL widget in order to auto-populate the node relationship via a link on the referring node.
Shows how to change the formatting and label display for fields, and how to control whether a field appears in the teaser, full mode, search results and other display mode contexts.
Goes through the process of adding a role and then creating a user reference field, which autocompletes to users within that specified role.
Goes through the process of creating a hierarchical set of taxonomy terms, and then adding an autocomplete taxonomy term reference field to a content type.
Goes through the process of adding three new fields to the job posting content type including an integer text field for the salary, a select list of job type, and a checkbox as to whether or not telecommuting is allowed.
Goes through the process of creating a new content type of a job posting, and shows how to customize the Title and Body labels for this new content type.
Provides an overview of the example job posting site that will be built over the remaining chapters of this video series. Joe gives a tour of the job posting content type as well as the job application content type.
Gives a high-level overview of the field configuration page and defines the field types, widget and display formatters. Also adds a simple text field as an example of extending an existing content type.
Goes through the default content types of the Article and Page that are provided in Drupal 7, and shows the similarities and differences between the two. Also goes through some of the configuration options, which define the default settings whenever a new node is created.
Let’s talk about taking your image uploads and turning them into unique shapes with fabulous effects using the ImageCache Actions module.
We already know that being able to set a standard for image display creates consistency and a better user experience. Drupal comes with the ability to do basic image manipulation like resizing them. By downloading and enabling another module, ImageCache Actions, we can do fancy things to those images, making your display truly customized.
I am assuming that you already know how to create Image Style presets.
For this tutorial, you need to make sure the Image module that comes with Drupal Core and you also need to download and enable the ImageCache Actions module. This can be found at drupal.org/project/imagecache_actions.
In this video series, Joe Shindelar, Karen Stevenson and Michelle Lauer build out a job posting board using the built-in Fields in Drupal 7 along with some other contributed modules. They cover the basics that Site Builders need to know about how to add fields, configure how they're displayed, and using all of the different types of fields including file files, image files, term references, node references, and user references. Each chapter of this video builds upon the last as the team builds and configures two content types for posting available jobs and job applications.
In this video, Joe shows the finished project we're going to make together through this series. Later in the series we'll be going through the steps necessary in order to create the job posting and job application content types he demonstrates here.
This video will pair well with Intro to Views in Drupal 7, which will continue this job board project through to completion.
You can use custom image sizes for automatic display in your Views!
We already know that being able to set a standard for image display creates consistency and a better user experience. It also makes it for easier site administration because you don’t need to cut all of you images before you upload them. Drupal does all the work for you!! Not only can we specify what the image will look like at the node-level, we can also specify what the image will look like in Views.
I am assuming that you already know how to create custom image style presets, and are familiar with the Views module.
For this tutorial, you need to make sure the Image module that comes with Drupal Core is enabled and that you have already downloaded and enabled the Views module along with its prerequisites.
We will use the example of a blog, where we add our scaled images to display in the listing.
This video covers some handy tips for reusing previously run commands and moving around through a line of text in the command line interface. These shortcuts make working on the command line much faster and nicer. Trying to remember all of these is not easy to do until you've used them for a while, so we also have a handy-dandy cheat sheet which you can find in the Downloads tab and refer to whenever you are in command line ninja mode. There are always new shortcuts you can learn. Another great shortcut !$.. It's similar to !!, but instead of repeating the last command, it repeats the last argument given. This sequence of commands shows how the shortcut could be used: mkdir sites/default/files followed by chmod a+w !$. That would be the same as typing out chmod a+w sites/default/files
Note: this video was originally released July 9, 2010 on Lullabot.com.
Note: In some places the command line prompt is cut-off. The YouTube version of this video doesn't have the cut-off problem. We are working on getting this fixed, but in the meantime, check out the YouTube version instead.
Command Line Basics 12: Handy Command Line Shortcuts (youtube.com)
This video picks up where we left off in the Editing with Vi/Vim video. This time we take a look at some shortcuts for replacing text, how to copy/paste, and the cool visual mode feature you get with Vim Note: this video was originally released August 31, 2010 on Lullabot.com.
Note: In some places the command line prompt is cut-off. The YouTube version of this video doesn't have the cut-off problem. We are working on getting this fixed, but in the meantime, check out the YouTube version instead.
Command Line Basics 11: More Editing with Vi/Vim editor (youtube.com)
This video is about making custom image sizes for automatic display on your site! I am going to show you how you can create custom thumbnail sizes that can be used in your content types.
We already know that being able to set a standard for image display creates consistency and a better user experience. It also makes it for easier site administration because you don’t need to cut all of you images before you upload them. Drupal does all the work for you!! And we can specify the exact site we want to use.
I am assuming that you already know how to update the field display settings in your content type to select an image style preset.
For this tutorial, you need to make sure the Image module that comes with Drupal Core is enabled.
We are going to create an image display that has an aspect ratio of 4”x6”, but much smaller. Then we are going to add a couple other treatments to it so that it fits the theme of Photo Journal.
In this second Vi/Vim video we move on to doing some basic editing (see the Intro to Vi/Vim video for an overview). We cover inserting text in a few different ways, how to delete text, and then how to revert or save your changes. Note: this video was originally released August 9, 2010 on Lullabot.com.
Note: In some places the command line prompt is cut-off. The YouTube version of this video doesn't have the cut-off problem. We are working on getting this fixed, but in the meantime, check out the YouTube version instead.
Command Line Basics 10: Editing with Vi/Vim editor (youtube.com)
As we wrap up and review the series, we also look at other modules that work with, or depend on, Features to provide you a jumpstart.
Additional resources
Features project (Drupal.org)
Introduction to Drush Series (Drupalize.Me)
https://github.com/DrupalizeMe/drupalize-lullablog (GitHub.com)
When you write your own custom modules, you can make them exportable to Features as well. Here we look at how to do that with the Chaos Tools (CTools) module.
Additional resources
CTools project (Drupal.org)
Features will auto-detect dependencies for you, which can be very handy, but at times it can also be very frustrating when you don't want them to. In this video we introduce the Features Plumber module and show you how to use it to finely control your dependencies.
We are sometimes asked how Features can be removed. Since a Feature is just a normal module, you can disable it on your module administration page, and even uninstall and completely remove it from your modules folder. That will completely remove the feature from your site.
Note: The Features plumber module is no longer necessary if you're using Features with Drupal 7. The functionality provided by this module has been included into newer versions of the Features module. So as long as your Features module is up-to-date you should be good to go. The concepts from this video do still apply.
Additional resources
Features project (Drupal.org)
Introduction to Drush Series (Drupalize.Me)
https://github.com/DrupalizeMe/drupalize-lullablog (GitHub.com)
If you have more than one feature module on your site, they can sometimes step on each other and cause nasty conflicts. We'll create some conflicts and show you how this happens and how to back out of them.
Additional resources
Features project (Drupal.org)
Introduction to Drush Series (Drupalize.Me)
https://github.com/DrupalizeMe/drupalize-lullablog (GitHub.com)