Assisted with 2012 conference webmaster to upgrade site to Joomla 2.5

Installed Drupal for 2013 Conference.

Configured Twitterfeed to post RSS from chla-absc.ca to our FaceBook Page, as well as our Twitter account.  Just testing to see that it works!

Refer to http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction 

Backup site files and database

Upgrades all done!  Site backed up, and all core and contributed modules at there shiny newest versions...

Tim

CHLA/ABSC has had a Facebook group page for a few years now.  Now you can also follow us on Twitter @chlaabsc.

I've been experimenting with linking all of this up, so now, thanks to TwitterFeed, the web site's RSS feed is posting to Twitter, and with the Facebook application RSS Graffiti, the feed should also be hitting the group's Facebook wall.

Part of the point of this post is to test all of that!

Tim

Upgraded the site to Drupal 6 on the weekend.  Wasn't a cakewalk...

Changes to keep track of...

Update: Sunday afternoon

Looks like the domain name servers have been updated.  Now working on restoring email forwards, and distribution lists.  Like packing, when travelling, I'm always relieved to figure out what one thing I invariably forgot when I get to my destination.  Of course I forgot at least one thing in this whole operation too.  I forgot to get the email distribution lists off the old host before the domain change happened.  Oh well, I can reconstruct those...  Hope that was the worst of it!  (yes, I'm touching wood!)

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Things to do:

1. Export database

• Empty all cache* tables
• Empty Sessions Table (remember to log in again right after)
• Empty watchdog table
• Empty all search* tables

1. Export based on http://drupal.org/node/81992

Apologies folks, but it seems we're having a problem with PDF files from the site not loading properly with Firefox (IE and Safari seem to work fine).
Until I can figure this out, you can get around it by right-clicking on the link to a document and saving it on your machine. It appears that it will save with a ".part" extension. If you change the extension to ".pdf" the file should work okay.
Any ideas anybody? I'm coming up empty here...
Tim

Been a bit tardy in site updating, but today I've updated the awards pages to include those members who received honours at the recent conference. Congratulations to Ada Ducas (Margaret Ridley Charlton Award), Trish Chatterley’s (Emerging Leader Award), Dorothy Fitzgerald and Tom Flemming (Honorary Lifetime Membership).

At the request of Taryn Lenders, CHIPIG's new webmaster, created a members only section within the CHIPIG site.

With the establishment of the Leadership Interest Group, a new page (under "Chapters and Community") and forum for the group have been created.

With Trina's development of separate pages for each membership category, it made sense to move membership up a level on the nav menu, with the category pages being nested below it.

Based on the new Vision and Mission developed by the Board at the Winter 2008 board meeting in Vancouver, I've updated the site parameters to put the new wording the Footer:
"CHLA/ABSC facilitates and enables credible knowledge transfer in health sciences through leading edge technologies and partnerships. Our mission is to lead health librarians towards excellence through professional development, networking and advocacy."

CHLA-ABSC is happy to announce that we are now hosting the CHIPIG (Consumer Health Information Providers Interest Group) web site at chla-absc.ca.

The chipig.ca domain will continue to exist, but until we work out some domain forwarding issues, you can find CHIPIG at http://www.chla-absc.ca/chipig/

Tim

I've finally found and added a module that will allow the navigation menus on the left to collapse when you click on them.

So, any of the menus that have the little black arrow to the left can now be collapsed. I've left the default to be expanded for now.

Tim

As a number of you pointed out to me at the end of the week, whenever you tried to log into the site, it just put you back at the home page, or log in screen, but didn't actually log you in.

Okay, it's done. I just hope it worked!
This afternoon, Sunday, May 6, I imported the information for all of the current members, and many former members of the association. You all should have received a personalized email telling you what was going on and giving you instructions on how to log in and change your password.

1. Enable collapsing menus
2. Rebuild Navigation menus properly with multilingual options/translations
3. Add member only content back to Drupal file system
4. Figure out Taxonomies and the Taxonomy Access Control Module
5. Import member database information
6. Coordinate with / train Office staff to be able to add/change users
7. Customize Error (file not found) pages