partyka's sandbox: Inline Block

Inline Block

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Requirements:
block
entity
ctools
context
blockreference

Recommended:
Bean

Use-Case:
Use Inline Block to allow your content editors to place blocks on individual nodes, per content-type.
This module works best when used in conjunction with modules that create dynamic blocks, like views or bean. Bean may be slightly more powerful, as the bean module also allows content-editors to create their own blocks. It is extremely useful to allow the content-editor to place it in the regions they desire.

How-To Use:
Inline Blocks are used on a per-content-type and per-region basis. In order to enable an inline
block, you must first visit the permissions page to assign the permission to use it for a particular
theme/region combination. However, this is only half of the setup. The other half is to visit
the content-type edit page to set up the specific content-types you want to use inline blocks with.
Each content-type is also set up on a region-basis. This means that, in order for a content-editor
to be able to place an inline block, the content-editor must have permission *and* be editing
a content-type enabled to use inline blocks.

It is strongly suggested that you use a "dedicated region" for your inline blocks. A "dedicated
region" is a region that has its blocks populated only by inline blocks. Therefore when trying
to determine how a block is being placed on a particular page you will know that only inline blocks is placing it there. You can use either an unused region provided by your theme, or create a new one if necessary.

Permissions are handled on a per-region basis. This module will scan the regions file
to determine if the logged-in user has the right to add a block to any region. Only the
allowed regions will be shown. If the user has no rights, nothing will be added to the node edit form.

This module works by using its own Context plugin.

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The following software is provided as noted in the terms of the copyright notice.

The purpose of this software is: A new module to allow the insertion of blocks into individual
nodes by the content-editors.

This software is being submitted by Argonne National Laboratory (January 2013)

The authors of this improvement are: Jason Partyka (partyka)
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