Drupal meetup presentation flag, flag weights and draggable views

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Flaghttp://drupal.org/project/flag

Flag Weightshttp://drupal.org/project/flag_weights

DraggableViewshttp://drupal.org/project/draggableviews

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Introduction to...

So what are they?

Flag: Provides the ability to “mark” a node or user in a list

Flag Weights: Extends Flag to allow marked items to be ordered

DraggableViews: Provides an extension to Views for administering ordered lists

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FlagsFlag is a flexible system for flagging nodes, comments and users

Flags can be “global” or per-user

Integrates with Views, Token, Rules, Features, Services and Activity

Has an API for extending functionality even further

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Flag Weights

Flag Weights is a simple extension to the Flags module

It alters each flagged item to have a weight

This allows you to create arbitrary ordered lists of nodes, users and comments

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Draggable Views

Draggable Views provides a plugin for Views which produces a sortable list of items

The sorting system is the same one used to order Blocks and Terms in the normal Drupal interface

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Nodequeue?

Anybody heard of Nodequeue? Doesn’t it do the same thing already?

Yes - but only for nodes. And the admin interface is “fixed” to use autocomplete for node titles.

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Configuringa Flag

Flag comes with a “bookmark” flag by default. This provides a per-user node flag.

Let’s create a new one called sidebar_items.

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Configuringa Flag

The next form has a whole load of settings, but fortunately they’re all pretty simple.

You’ll need a Title, Flag and Unflag text, enabled Global checkbox, enabled node types and appropriate Display options.

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Configuringa Flag

And that’s it!

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Admin View - Page11

Admin View - Attachment12

Other Admin Options

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Exposed Filters for Node Title, Type, Post Date, etc

More fields on the table for sorting

Imagefield thumbnails

The Admin View14

The Admin View15

So how does it look?

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Well, how do you want it to look? :-)

Example Result

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This just shows one way of using Flags, Flag Weights and Draggable

Views.

Any questions?

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Slides available:http://bit.ly/flag-slides

Photo:http://flic.kr/p/5KrE8c

by “pinprick”