John Ennew

There are a number of ways to access the data stored in a field attached to an entity in code. This blog post demonstrates some of the possible ways using the core functionality and the new Entity API

CTools is a widely used Drupal API module which provides functional frameworks for modules such as Views, Panels, Context and more. In addition to its many uses, it has great JavaScript capabilities. Tutorials on the web only tend to describe how to fire off a CTools AJAX call when clicking on a link. What we will show you is how to fire off a CTools call on other events, such as on page load. To do this, you will need to create a custom module; our code assumes you've called your module 'mymodule'...

Basecamp (http://basecamphq.com) is a great tool for project management and we use it extensively. One of its tools is the ability to specify tasks (called to dos) and order those to dos into lists. Though you can set a required by date for a task, what it is missing is the ability to assign an effort value to those tasks and then provide the sum total effort of all tasks in a list. If you are on an agile team, then knowing the relative size of a task and the sum total of a group of tasks helps when planning the work to be performed in an upcoming iteration (sprint) or the total effort remaining in the backlog of tasks. At Deeson, we thought it would be a good idea to have this functionality so we added it via a custom script for the Firefox Greasemonkey plugin.

John Ennew

Programatically access field data using entity_metadata_wrapper in Drupal

Advanced CTools - Run a CTools Javascript call at any time

Agile my Basecamp

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