Sometimes you don't have to be here to be here. Besides solving situations for all who attended Lab in person today, we also conducted an intense remote session with Maryann. To get into the spirit of how this transpired, you'll need to visit the online notes which contain the live chat in the sidebar. The transcript below summarizes the rest.

Advantage Labs - http://www.advantagelabs.com/
Wednesday Lab Hours  Session  -   August 11, 2010 / 4-6PM CDT

Maryann - will not be there tonight - maybe if I have time, via the pad, or I'll see you on Friday
I'm at home - thought it easier to write it here than in the chat -- 

• problem: site: www.mngastro.com: I want to pull just the biography field from the profile -- when I look it up on the edit profile content type > manage fields it states: label: biography  field type=node module form I cannot find anything in the views fields to show that -- any ideas -? the link to my sandbox is:http://sandbox.mngastro.advantagelabs.com/about-us/contact-us/senior-leadership when you click on full biography -- I get the thickbox output, but it is empty  -
  • final answer:  syntax in the rewritten output of the CCK field needed to be corrected -- also, which field supplies the output is important

Sandy

• CLM - working on a title that I can't figure anything out on how to display it.  Should I display the title in a view or custom template or...  The view has an attachment with jcarousel and five star voting that needs a different title per domain. (got to love my questions)
  • The Views Carousel views formatter does not treat the "group by" field option in the default way -- i.e. it won't display the field's title above the output (the carousel);  we found a way, not using attachments, to utilize an argument to supply the desired title

John

• Working on post launch issues for Mpls BCT site - hey John -- just looked at your site -- very, very nice!!
• Working on pre-launch of MN Building Trades site

Roger

• need assistance with a nonfunctioning view (Our Work section)--Bravo Barry!
• can I embed a link into the "site information" area?
• if Jer's available and has time, I'd like him to show me how he does background colors on blocks
• question about font size and browsers: why do certain pages look normal in Firefox and even IE but not in Safari?  more curious than anything.--I think we found the problem came from HTML formatting, which will now be stripped out. my clients usually cause that by pasting from MSWord -- 
  • made changes to the TinyMCE WYSIWYG profiles to remove unwanted HTML options and make styling easier
• For our Resources blocks, how do I get individual items to be preceded by a dot, just like this very sentence?  It would help make the items stand out.
  • in the block body -- you should have a tiny mce editor icons on the bar above -- or if it is coming from a view, you need to use the list style format and the unordered list provides the bullets (of course, you then can do some css styling to get it exactly the way you want  - circle, square, image, etc.) if you look at firebug for the bullet above you will see it:  <ul class="list-bullet1">  you would then style that through your css.