The pre-Thanksgiving Lab provided much to feast on -- pun intended; we talked about feeds -- and much to be thankful for. Take a look at the live Lab pad or feast on the notes below.

Advantage Labs - http://www.advantagelabs.com/
Wednesday  Lab Hours Session -- November 23, 2011 / 4-6PM CT

Katie Rojas-Jahn -- greenchemistrymn.advantagelabs.com

• Configure group for 2012 Conference
• Review fields for Event and Organization content types
• Review and configure user profiles display
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• Sponsor concept
  • Goals:
    • list sponsors of each Event
    • generate list of sponsors by event for IATP use
  • sponsors are:
    • organizations
    • have a level (gold, bronze or 1,2,3)
    • related to specific event (group)
  • to do this we could:
    • create a "sponsor" content type with the following fields
      • organization (node reference to the org content type)
      • level (free tag taxonomy? to account for this year we call it Gold next year we call it Supreme or...  text field as list with defined values)
    • configure sponsor content type to be a "group" type so you can publish a sponsor to the specific Event (group)
    • create view displays to show the various sponsors
  • HOWEVER, it makes sense to look at the ability to add fields to the relationship between the organization and the group
    • add a sponsor level field (text only so it can be flexible for whatever sponsorship levels will be called in the future)
      
      

Anjali Dotson -- www.resdac.org

• finalize content types
  
  

Maryann King http://www.emkayandco.com 

• how to set up rss feeds going both ways
  • coming from an outside source
    • Talked through what is possible using core Aggregator module and discussed additional functionality possible with Feeds module
    • Need to understand what the organization wants to do -- what will site be pulling and what do you want to do with it?
      • will the content become nodes on site? etc.
  • going out - i.e., someone wants to have a feed from your site
    • Demonstrated how feeds can be added to view displays including the front page (where this site needs one)
  • 1 calendar shared internally, best practices
    • `what does this mean?
      • staff only to see it and to add things to it
      • dates for deadlines of internal projects
        • meetings
        • etc.
    • Given this, Organic Groups may be the way to go or...
      • another tool that is more geared toward project management since the site is public facing and this work is internal???
        
        
• updating a theme