Editions, blocks, zones, sub-blocks
Sat, 16/05/2009 - 16:43
Hi
New to both Drupal and ProsePoint - but very impressed so far. I wandered off the true path a while ago and flirted briefly with Joomla! Not a pretty sight - especially the interface presented to authors and editors and so on - very confusing.
Now to my point. I'm playing around with the edition editor, and I'm assaulted by a host of terms I should know but haven't learned about yet - blocks, sub-blocks, fields, zones etc. What I need to know is are these concepts part of Drupal (... and ProsePoint is merely 'using' them) or were they invented by ProsePoint? If they're regular Drupal terms, then I can look them up easily.
Thanks - and keep up the good work.
Ropz
Sun, 17/05/2009 - 01:57
#2
Terrific
Thanks for the guidance - I'm sure the waters are deep but also mildly exhilarating!
You know, I already have a prototype site up - I've volunteered to build a community web site and I think the newspaper/magazine metaphor is just the right thing.
I'm keen to understand how I can control workflow better, because however much we trust our contributors, we need to make it mandatory that every article is reviewed. No need to post a further reply, since I understand that a more powerful workflow implementation is imminent
Thanks again
Tue, 19/05/2009 - 21:02
#3
ProsePoint 0.21 has been released
ProsePoint 0.21 has been released, with the new Workflow functionality. You can use it to enforce reviewing of stories by, for example, preventing users who create nodes from making them Public - only privileged users are allowed. You'll need to configure the Workflow settings differently from the defaults that ProsePoint preconfigures.
I'll see if I can make time to write up a short post providing more information on this.
Hi,
Welcome to ProsePoint.
You've asked a very open ended question ... I admit documentation is a bit lacking, but anyway, here's a starter:
A lot of ProsePoint is Drupal underneath, but a disproportionately large part of what the user sees is due to customisations from code for ProsePoint.
Blocks are 'pieces' of arbitrary content that can be placed in regions around the theme. This is inherited from Drupal.
Editions are a custom content type that was added by ProsePoint. However, it was created using Drupal modules, the main ones being CCK and Views (there are some others) . There is also some extra functionality for editions that was added by ProsePoint.
Fields are a concept introduced by the Drupal module CCK. You don't have to know anything about these to use ProsePoint, but if you want to look them up, look up the module CCK.
Zones and Sub-blocks are from modules written for ProsePoint. They are aimed at intermediate users because they are more complex (but also offer more layout-related features). You don't have to know anything about them if you don't see a need to use them.
Well, I hope that gives you some guidance to find out more. However, ProsePoint is meant to be used without having to understand too much of the technical details, so feel free to wade in as much or as little as you want.