By cel4145 on

This past weekend, I converted Open Education from PostNuke to Drupal 4.1 using the conversion script posted by david@puntbarra.com.

Open Education's goal is to promote the creation, use and distribution of open content for education, specifically via Creative Commons licensed learning objects. If anyone is interested in participating in any of our workgroups, please register and post an introduction to the specific group.

I almost have everything configured the way I want it. What I've been able to do with Drupal, that I can't do with PostNuke, create a customized vocabularly such that each member can create an individualized blog listing, with each working group in the organization using a different term to tag their posts. There's also one for the whole membership. Then we are using the moderation system to promote items to the front page. Very nice way to organize an elaborate workflow via blogs. Put a lot of instructions and explanation into the site manual, too, using the Collaborative Book (much better than a wiki). Thanks Drupal!

My only wish is that forum topic posts could also be tagged by the categories that I created, instead of only being posted to the one that defines the structure. That way, I could monitor the forums, too, from one page

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

forum.module specifically doesn't assign taxonomy terms like other modules. i suppose this is dpone so the user is not confused about wich forum to post in ... in any case, this would not be too hard to change. see forum_form()

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cel4145 commented

"see forum_form()"

Thanks!

It was just a wish, not a necessity Only local images are allowed.

omgomg’s picture

omgomg commented

A b2 to drupal converter would be good.

ax’s picture

ax commented

converters (scripts, docs) from any weblog software to Drupal are usually done by the people using and knowing the other weblog software. it's not that hard. have a look at Migrating from other weblog software to Drupal to see how others did it.

and please contribute your results Only local images are allowed.

kika’s picture

kika commented

Why not add your site to Drupal sites list? Read here how it should be done.

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cel4145 commented

Why? Because it doesn't work too well when crontab isn't playing nicely with lynx because of the virtual hosting software that is running the Open Education site. But at the same time it doesn't work on my server with my personal site where crontab and lynx are working properly. It's been configured according to those directions for weeks now and ping in Linux on the server does work. I'm guessing that the problem there is related to the issues with xmlrpc.php, but if anyone has any better suggestions, would be glad to hear them.

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lockrey commented

I also tried to use the http://www.drupal.org/xmlrpc.php
on my site. It is enabled and we are not added to the drupal.org
list.

My cron is working. I do get newsfeed updates via cron.

Brian Lockrey
Data Recovery Engineer
http://www.assist.com
614-846-9000 x 104

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cel4145 commented

It wouldn't work for me with 4.1, even when I had all of the information filled in under site configurations (from what I understand, the module expects that you have the email address, slogan, and mission statement filled in). I think I remember reading there was a bug in 4.1 with xmlrpc. But it worked immediately once I upgraded to 4.2rc.