Developments

Last month I posted the code I used to add a link to header that opens all the edit links in a view. Developments » Drupal6 VBO – ‘Open Edit Links’ link added to header.
This month I had a view with a workflow link and I wanted to add a link to open those links as well.

So I updated the function to take two variables: the descriptive name of the link type (descName) and the jQuery css selector (cssSelector).
So the original ‘Edit’ link had to be updated from

openEditLinks()

to:

openEditLinks('Edit','.views-field-edit-node a');

But now it can be called side by side with the workflow link option:

openEditLinks('Workflow','a.workflow-link');

. Like so:

<a href="#" onClick="javascript:openEditLinks('Edit','.views-field-edit-node a'); return false;" title="Click to open ALL edit links or highlight a group of edit links to limit the number of links that open.">Open Edit Links</a> |
<a href="#" onClick="javascript:openEditLinks('Workflow','a.workflow-link'); return false;" title="Click to open ALL Workflow links or highlight a group of workflow links to limit the number of links that open.">Open Workflow Links</a>

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Update 4-13-11: Developments » Drupal6 VBO – ‘Open Links’ header link option updated.

I took the bookmarklet that opens all the ‘Edit’ links on the Views Bulk Operations content management page and updated it to work in the header of the view.

Here are some screenshots of what it looks like and the code I placed in the header of the view.
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I needed to edit some custom content in a large number of nodes and while Views Bulk Operations (VBO) allowed me to filter down to those nodes there isn’t a custom operation to edit text in custom fields. Not that I would expect there to be one.
So I wanted to open all the edit links in one fell swoop. I have a bookmarklet: ‘Open Selected Links’ which would work OK if the edit link was the only link for each node but it’s not. So I thought Why don’t I update the script to use just the edit links.
And so I did.
The working script is all JS with one line of jQuery.
The line in question previously set the available links using

dl = document.links;

and now uses:

dl = $('#views-bulk-operations-form--1 .views-field-edit-node a');

Which is a collection of all the edit links on the page.

I could probably keep in the old default and prompt the user to use just the edit links but quick and dirty is the name of the game right now.
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I needed to compare two lists and my best option I could think of was to paste them in excel; convert text to columns on the commas; transpose the row to a column; copy and paste the result (paste special: value) and then sort it alphabetically. Then I could compare my lists… Uhg.

So I thought there must be a faster way to alphabetize a list and I went looking for a script. I found a bookmarklet written for IE. So I converted it to work in firefox and then updated it to use regex and accommodate single quotes.
It seems to be working great.
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We have a Drupal 5 site we use for users to collaborate on job searches and adding users is a bit of a chore. When I was asked to add 10 users today I wasn’t looking forward to it. Redundant, monotonous and repetitive; the trifecta that is my arch-nemesis.

So I created a javascript that populates the form from an email address and creates a random password. (more…)

I was just asked how to use data from one field to populate other fields in an acrobat fill-in form.
Turns out you just need to write a little javascript and add it to the action tab of the initial field in your form.

To begin let’s assume we’re using Acrobat Pro 8 or 9. If you use Live Cycle Designer for your form wizard, you’ll want to edit the form in Acrobat to follow these steps exactly.
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On the ODT web site we’d like to generate word clouds for our local and linked content. So I went looking for a simple javascript word cloud generator. I found a project on Clusterfy that created a jquery bookmarklet to do that on any page: http://clusterify.com/projects/list/fsavard/6/

Here’s the example: Generate Word Cloud

Note: I’ve also created a version that highlights the words on the page when you click them. Create a wordcloud from any page with search function

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We have a huge anchored document with and equally huge TOC. There’s also a traditional drupal menu on that page.
My goal was to get the inline menu into the drupal menu.

Div swapping didn’t work ie: div1.innerHTML = div2.innerHTML. The menu showed up but the open / close functionality was lost.

So moving the node was the key.

<?php //vid inserted script 
    if($title=="Professional Development Opportunities") {?>
        <script type='text/javascript'>$(document).ready(function() {
            document.getElementById('dhtml_menu-254').parentNode.className='first dhtml-menu collapsed start-collapsed';
            insertAfter(document.getElementById('toc'),document.getElementById('dhtml_menu-252'));
            node2delete=document.getElementById("dhtml_menu-269").parentNode;
            node2delete.parentNode.removeChild(node2delete);
        });

        //create function, it expects 2 values.
        function insertAfter(newElement,targetElement) {
            //target is what you want it to go after. Look for this elements parent.
            var parent = targetElement.parentNode;
            //if the parents lastchild is the targetElement...
            if(parent.lastchild == targetElement) {
                //add the newElement after the target element.
                parent.appendChild(newElement);
            } else {
                // else the target has siblings, insert the new element between the target and it's next sibling.
                parent.insertBefore(newElement, targetElement.nextSibling);
            }
        }
</script>
<?php } ?>