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Updated on Fri, 2009-05-01 21:41. Originally created by chajecki on 2008-06-16 17:21.

 

STAR Drupal Task List
 #  Title Description Priority Status  Comments
 1.  Immage attachment

 There are two areas here   + IMG Assist seems broken. There is no "insert" anymore. the previous galleries are gone
   I believe this is due to the last upgrade of the image module (there is warning as per being careful of version - two modules need updates in sync)

   This is important as people are using regular attachments for    images but as you know, attachments are non-public ... and the images cannot be seen.

  HIGH  CLOSED  
 2.  Phonebook

 There are a few improvements we discussed.   This would allow for moving ahead with synchronization of accounts in HN / Drupal.

Type: development & deployment
  Requirements:
    * support for all features of the current phone book +
      extend-able search a-la-Drupal
    * support for secondary name (with encoding)
    * support for secondary Email address (HN support)

  HIGH    work in progress; the module is written and has all functionality that the currect STAR phonebook has. However, the remaining part is the integration of phonebook with drupal and hypernews.
 3.  ACLs ACLs - users want to be able to grant access to specific pages  and trees. Initial module evaluation showed a problem and needed a patch (we would need to send the patch back to the author).
Namely, there is a risk that a user grants all access to anonymous or "generic user".
 		 MEDIUM    there are modules that we can potentially use and we even found good candidates (Content Access + ACL) but these modules don't seem to be working well with organic group module. There seems to be a solution to this problem but more work is needed. 
 4.  Upload/attach images There is a more convenient method to upload / attach images via  the editor/filemanager plugin. But this need manual setup and I believe you got this to work on your testbed.
   Caveat: it would be good if previously loaded images are visible  from this method so we do not upload images in different trees and places (there is a risk there that we are going to stumble on our feet)
 		 MEDIUM   CLOSED  
 5.  Theme  Well, at some stage we should re-iterate the them (look and feel) issue. Initial Email in starsoft produced no feedback. Let's get out of the left side menu reshape and make a new call.

 

  LOW  CLOSED new theme installed
6. Access privs t was noted that some documents are not accessible by the general public (non-authenticated users) but should. For  example, http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/theses should PDF should be downloadable by all but are not. Note that the STAR Notes works fine.
  Type: Evaluation - files are saved by this module in
        system/files instead of files/ hence private.
 		 IMMEDIATE  CLOSED problem fixed
7.  Event repeat  This feature was found as having some serious bugs after all  (we were lucky to not bumped into too many) and was disabled since
  http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/get/drupal/76.html  It was not re-enabled since.		  MEDIUM   we need a new version of this modue from developers. It was promised two months ago but still not provided. 
8.  page ordering   Requires node manipulation. Should require little ... may  depend on ACL as obviously.
  Requirements:
    We do NOT want any user to change menu ordering anywhere (but only where they are allowed to)		  MEDIUM    I'm not aware of any module that does it. It can only be done by changing the weight of the page but it changes the position of the node in the menu and that's why this feature is available for admins only.
9 input format : filtered HTML Jan suggested this to be the default. Not sure of the  side effects apart from when one cut-and-paste (and lots  of things come with it, left unclean).
  Type: Evaluation		 MEDIUM  CLOSED  done
10

bulk image upload

 

 Ability to upload multiple images at once would be great,
  easer in FCKEditor or img_assist. Requested multiple times
  for convenience and efficiency.
  Requirements:
    * As for the FCkEditor document unloader, it would be good
      to sort bulk upload into separate directory trees
    * Back stepping would be nice (if a mistake is made)
    * String manipulation of the source name would be good
      (so we could make better classifications)
  Priority: MEDIUM		 MEDIUM  

  image module has such a feature but it's available for admins only and it requires that files are posted in a specific directory on the webserver.

AFAIR FCK editor also has such a feature but I recall some problems with it when using in Drupal. I will take a more detailed look at it when time allows.

11 performance improvment and tuning http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/get/drupal/67.html
  Type: evaluation & tuning		 MEDIUM    
12 OG navigation block

Last was a general thought to move the right hand-side block  to the left but change the color when we enter OG mode.  Moving to the left side is easy ... the color do not change  (requires code change). Requirement: need to visually "see" we are on an OG page

  Type: development

 LOW CLOSED fixed by us, need small modification in og module
13 Global path rename There is a possible need to globally change the path  alias and regexp. For example, all xxx/yyy/* could be renamed  xxx/*
  Caveat: Privilege user only and as a convenience
  Type: development or evaluation of existing module
 		 LOW   new module has to be written

 

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