TODO
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Immediate
Things I should work on at the moment
- inline.module bug causing errors when used to inline an image
- squash upload.module bug which is miscalculating the size of uploaded files (and reporting that the size is too large)
- Bug which is messing up image uploads when the image is less than 640x480. Fixed, I hope
Deferred
Things I hope to get to sometime 'soon'
- Import all clubs contact details
- check for any more existing static links
- turn on clean urls
- Categorise all articles which are in the 'empty' category (I made this category to contain everything which wasn't otherwise categorised. Everything has to be categorised to show up properly in the news archives)
- some sort of organised place for committee documents to be uploaded
Modules to investigate
Extra functionality / modules which I will look into using. Just so I don't forget that I've seen these things....
- related_links: associate related links with each article. I still have all the old related links info in an importable format, see if this module is up to par code-wise, or whether I should wait on a new suite of links modules currently in development (for ongoing maintenance, that could be best). The new links bundle also obsoletes weblink.module which is generating our links pages.
- node_image: associate an image with an article or category listing
- mass mailer. Might do the job for mailing the clubs email list.
- notify. Emails a notification whenever the site is updated, though RSS can be used for the same info now. Worth a look.
- If we had Swish-E available to us we could use the Swish-E.module to index all the .doc .xls .pdf etc. files on the site to include in the site wide search results (that would be very nice)
- smileys. A filter that add's a smiley image in place of the text equivalent :-) Might be nice in the forums and comments.
Error with inline images uploading
Initially error that an 8k GIF image is being read as 15MB in size and therefore breaks the size limit for attachments to news stories.
Getting past that, now once an image is attached, when the page is viewed the following error appears:
warning: getimagesize(?q=system/files&file=2000_gav_deb_wedding_tim_garter.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/htdocs/docs_renegades/www/modules/inline/inline.module on line 131
eg.
http://www.renegades.com.au/?q=news/empty/aussies-win-in-europe-0
http://www.renegades.com.au/?q=news/social-noise/a-reds-wedding
Additional general story categories
"empty" isn't really and valid category and probably shouldn't be used at all.
Therefore need other categories for general news stories that don't fit into the regular specific categories.
eg.
"Miscellaneous"
"World Volleyball News"
A "Masters" category is also needed.
Also, many stories currently in "empty" should be given more relevant categories such as "AVL" and "VVL".
eg. list all the "empty" stories:
http://www.renegades.com.au/?q=taxonomy/term/29/all
See the item from the
See the item from the deferred section above :). I made the empty category so that these items would appear _somewhere_ in the archives, and so that I could easily see what needed to be categorised. From what I can tell, most of these articles are just photo gallery pages (which if they don't have any written content can possibly go away)....
I had a quick stab at one point at going through these, but gave up pretty quickly with a mountain of other work to do (and I couldn't automate it!).
Not enough categories
There are two main issues:
1. re-organise the existing stories in "empty"
2. create new categories so that nothing new has to go into "empty"
You've answered the first issue.
But even yesterday I was still having to add articles to "empty" because there were no other relevant categories for general volleyball news stories and interviews. Masters and Juniors competition categories are also missing.
So, I suggest creating new categories linked to menus and moving all competition-related categories as sub-cats under a new Competitions category/menu:
News
- Competitions
-- AVL
-- VVL
-- Beach
-- University (note that not everyone knows what "intervarsity" means)
-- Masters
-- Juniors
-- Social
- General (or Miscellaneous or Other)
(plus the other existing news categories of Australian Teams, Olympics, Social Noise, etc.)
Calendar wrong as Anonymous user
The Calendar works fine when logged in as myself, but when viewing other months as an Anonymous user the events are all mixed up - all events are displayed for every day.
eg. view June without logging in:
http://www.renegades.com.au/?q=event/2005/06/24/month/all/all/1
As an anonymous user, the Calendar seems to be ignoring End Dates in events.
strange....
That's very strange. The event.module just had some updates made to it, so I'll upgrade to the latest version and see if that helps. If it doesn't I'll try to fix it, shouldn't be too hard to spot the problem I hope...
fixed now
just upgraded the event module which seems to have done the trick. We've also picked up ical export (you might notice the ugly little icon for it on all the event views).
Our current news
Our current news categorisation:
australian teams
-- vtam
-- vtaw
avl
beach
empty
intervarsity
olympics
-- 2000 paralympics
-- Athens Olympics 2004
-- sydney 2000
opinion
results
social noise
tournaments
-- Ballarat Tournament
-- Morwell Tournament
-- Wangaratta Tournament
-- Warrnambool Tournament
vic volleyball
vvl
And the matching news menu
news
- australian teams
- avl
- beach
- intervarsity
- olympics
- results
- social noise
- tournaments
- vvl
What ideas do you have for what how we should change this?
We also probably need to decide what actually belongs in 'news', and what can / should appear elsewhere (a new 'announcements' box, in the calender, something else?), or have everything in news....
New category suggestions
I aggree that we need an "announcements" box separate to normal news stories and calendar events. Somewhere to highlight particular items of interest.
I think we need several additional news categories. I had thought to group those relating to particular competitions under a new "competitions" sub-category, but if that's not possible then just add to the existing news menus. (I am worried that this now creates a very long news menu)
news
- australian teams
- avl
- beach
- juniors
- masters
- miscellaneous
- olympics
- results
- social comp
- social noise
- tournaments
- university
- vvl
Also missing from the "club info" menu is the old Style Guide page with links to the logo files.
Re. new modules suggestions
(from an email sent to Eric, with his replies - added here for documentation)
> I was looking through the list of Drupal modules for something to
> include inline images in story pages with more formatting options
> (align left/right/center, valign top/bottom, set size) than the
> existing [inline:] tags. Also as something that can be used for
> thumbnail images alongside teaser text headings.
> I didn't find any of that, but...
I forgot to mention, just use img_assist (that plus button) for that from now on. It has good control over formatting etc. and draws it's images from the photo galleries. There's an article images gallery set up for this purpose. [inline:] is a little broken, we were getting errors to the screen but now they just go to the logs (the problem is still there though). But, img_assist should work perfectly for this. It also makes it easier to manage images because they're all in the gallery, we only store one copy of all the logo's etc. etc.
I do know of another good module, but I'm not going to tell you because img_assist does all the same stuff :) Oh, img_assist can also insert a side block on every image page in the photo gallery with links to all the articles using that image, a nice feature.
> - volunteer
> http://drupal.org/node/20086
> The next time there's a request for people to help with organising
> something (eg. O-Week table, junior coaching clinic, etc) it would be
> good to install this
I saw this. I was waiting to see how much 'buy in' we get for the new features of the website before investigating it fully. Another module in a slightly similar vein is RSVP where you can invite people to an event and they can RSVP (whether site members or not apparently).
> - eCommerce
> http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce
> Have you looked at this one at all? It says that it includes
> "inventory management" which, if it's any good, potentially could keep
> track of uniforms, volleyballs and the selling of t-shirts in
> particular.
> I'm not thinking that we set this module up as an online store, but
> more for the Club's internal management of goods.
> The module might require some tweaking for it to work the way I'm
> thinking (ie. remove any need for a shopping cart and payment details)
Interesting, I'd never thought about that. It could possibly be used in this way.
> - Project
> http://drupal.org/project/project
> Potentially useful to replace the committee's existing action sheet
> document that is updated by hand at meetings.
Installed it and tested it. It was _close_ to being awesome. The way it works on drupal.org is great, all issue posts go to the email list and include all the past issue posts. You can change an issue status (active, fixed, patch, won't fix, etc. etc.), you can assign issues to particular people, and more. Unfortunately it's written expressly for managing a software project and the states are fixed etc. etc. When I get more time it could be worth another look though.
> You've created a monster!
:-)
And then there's all the possibilities for all the modules we can write ourselves :-) I want a related module which can express relations between photos and users so we can have a printout on each photo page listing the users in the picture, and an inverse printout on each user page showing which photos they're in.
And then we can also...... (insert other stuff like player history, etc. etc.)