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We are happy to announce that we will be conducting a Drupal bugathon at our office at Kakkanad on the 20th of October, 2012. If you are a Drupal developer and you would like to get some guidance on how to contribute to Drupal you are welcome to join us.
If you are creating a View using the Drupal Views module and if you want to filter nodes based on nids (Node > NID filter) then Views gives you options to filter it based on a single argument of the nid. Currently there is no direct way to have multiple nid filters in Views similar to "Is one of" for Taxonomy. However there is a workaround to achieve that. Read onto find out more.
Some Drupal users have reported that there was a conflict with an external Jquery script and the Views Ajax. This occured when the Drupal user wanted to use the external script for some specifc purpose. The conflict was causing the Views UI to break. If you are experiencing this issue in your Views read on to find out the solution.
If your Drupal site has a group of nodes ordered chronologically and you wish to randomly show one of the first five most recent nodes each time then you might face a small roadblock. SQL has no way to do this and therefore there is no way Views can execute this directly. However there is a workaround to make this work. Read onto find out more.
Some Drupal Views users have encountered a Page not found error when they tried to navigate to the new Views Page files display they had created. This occurred after the preview page worked correctly and showed the correct test file in the table. It is not very clear what causes this error in the first place but there are multiple actions you can take to fix it. Read on to find out more.
Drupal Gmap module is a very useful module for embedding the functionality of Google Maps in your website. Currently the only way to access this map is to go to the "yoursitee.com/map/node and find all the relevant info on a single map. There is no direct way to access i location nodes on a single map, inside a block or panel pane, or on pages other than yoursitee.com/map/node. However there is a workaround for this. Read on to find out more.
Drupal Views can be displayed as both blocks and pages. If you want the View to be embedded in a node in your Drupal site then the obvious choice would be to display it as a block. View blocks can be embedded in a node as any other block by calling a set of functions like block_load and drupal_render. However it is not directly possible to pass contextual filters as arguments to those functions if your View uses them. Read on to find out how to pass contextual filters to a View embedded in a node.
Zyxware in association with the Department of MCA at RV College of Engineering, Bangalore is conducting a 2 day workshop on "Advanced Drupal" at the College. The workshop is targeted at students and faculty at the college. Attendees of the workshop are expected to be good at PHP, MySQL and HTML. The workshop is scheduled for 3rd and 4th of Nov 2012.
Objective of the workshop
Drupal starter themes are Drupal themes which are specifically designed to give the designer a base model for building their own custom themes. As such they are very minimalistic in their design and well documented to assist designers in getting a head start in designing their own unique theme. They are build to work with the help of Drupal's subtheming system. We have picked out the Top 5 Drupal starter themes for your convenience. Also checkout out the Top 5 Free Business themes for Drupal. Contact us if you need help with customizing any of these Drupal themes. We also provide numerous other Drupal services like Drupal Third Pary Integration and Drupal SEO.
Drupal 7 is now the focus of the Drupal community which was previously reserved for Drupal 6. Drupal 7 now has a lot more themes and theme frameworks which were adapted from the previous versions plus new ones created specifically for it. Have a look at the Top 10 themes for Drupal 7. Also check out the Top 10 themes for Drupal 6. If you need to develop your own custom Drupal theme, feel free to get in touch with us for a free consultation.We also provide numerous other Drupal services like Drupal Third Pary Integration and Drupal SEO.