Monthly Archive: March 2011

Drupal Learning Journal 21. Ubercart 2

I spent more time working with Ubercart, a drupal ecommerce tool and couldn’t help learning a few things. 🙂 I wanted to create custom invoices as part of the ordering, order management process. I got that far that I made a modified version of  the /sites/all/modules/ubercart/uc_order/uc_order-customer.tpl.php file, but it didn’t want to show up in the GUI as an invoice template I...

Drupal Learning Journal 20. Ubercart +

I am in a very active stage of developing a drupal ecommerce site with Ubercart. I suspect the next few “Drupal Learning Journal” messages will relate to that. Here are a few tidbits from the rounds I did today. I finally manged to configure a WYSIWYG option for textboxes from scratch. (I.e. exactly those word style formatting buttons show up at...

Wireframe and storyboard tools

I’ve been playing with the idea of getting into the field of “Information Architecture (IA)” for over a decade, ever since I first got my hands on “Information Architects,” by Richard Saul Wurman and Edward R. Tufte’s “Envisioning Information,” both rather beautiful books. However between 1997 and 2005 I haven’t done much with the idea, besides keeping an eye on how the...

Drupal Learning Journal 19. A Book of Videos

There is an yet-unsolved bug in the Media module (for Drupal 7) that prevented us from making the video gallery of a site work that we ported from one host to another. The issue has been documented and discussed here, here, here and here. We couldn’t wait any longer so I worked out a relatively simple substitute. There were only a...

Drupal Learning Journal 18. Field Permissions, Password Strength, Editable Grid

I have been slowly working on several sites and in the process discovered some useful modules. Field Permissions “allows site administrators to set field-level permissions.” Why would you need such a thing? The idea is that certain fields could be viewed by certain roles only. E.g. I decided to add the distributors of the films I am listing at my...