A quick overview on how to use Flag, Flag Weights and DraggableViews

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2. Introduction to...
Flag
http://drupal.org/project/flag
Flag Weights
http://drupal.org/project/flag_weights
DraggableViews
http://drupal.org/project/draggableviews
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3. 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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4. Flags
Flag 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Configuring
a 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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9. Configuring
a 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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10. Configuring
a Flag
And that’s it!
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11. Admin View - Page
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12. Admin View - Attachment
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13. Other Admin Options
Exposed Filters for Node Title, Type,
Post Date, etc
More fields on the table for sorting
Imagefield thumbnails
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14. The Admin View
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15. The Admin View
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16. So how does it look?
Well, how do you want it to look? :-)
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17. Example
Result
This just shows one way
of using Flags, Flag
Weights and Draggable
Views.
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18. Slides available:
Any http://bit.ly/flag-slides
questions? Photo:
http://flic.kr/p/5KrE8c
by “pinprick”
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