Report from the University of Minnesota Drupal Usability Testing

From May 17 - 19, 2011, in advance of DrupalCamp Twin Cities, several Drupal community members met at the University of Minnesota usability lab in Minneapolis to perform a round of formal usability testing on Drupal 7. This is the fourth major usability testing for Drupal, and the first targeting the new Drupal 7 release.

People who were familiar with building websites (but not with Drupal) were observed while they worked through a number of site building tasks. This report contains a summary of the results.

Summary

The good news is that most of the changes that were put in Drupal 7 tested well. Compared to Drupal 6, Drupal 7 no longer confuses new users with basic conceptual hurdles like where the front-end vs. back-end of their site is and how to create an "About us" page, and for the most part the administrative interface is clear.

Attaching Comment form to custom menu item

Hi,
I've created a custom menu in a custom module of mine, with items of course.
I wanted to add the comment form (of the Comment module) to the page that my item takes me to.
The problem is that the page i'm redirected to is not a node, but it is a render-able page that displays the data according to it's 'page_arguments'.
It is as follows:

$items['car/%'] = array(
		'title' => 'Cars',
		'page callback' => 'car_page',
		'page arguments' => array(1),
		'access callback' => TRUE,
		'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);

I want to attach the comment form (of the Comment Module) to that page.
I used the following code:

module_load_include('module', 'contact');

$build = array(
    'header_text' => array(
        '#type' => 'markup',
        '#markup' => 'Building comments in page.',
    ),
    'the_form' => drupal_get_form('comment_form', ''),
);
	
return $build;

All is correct code.

But the problem is that the comment form and the posted comments are loaded depending on the node Id (nid), and in my case there is no node Id (nid)!

How could i assign a specific identifier of that custom page so that the comment form functions correctly and comments related to that page are correctly loaded?!

Need some advice please

Okay, after much reading and research I keep coming back to Drupal. I really want to learn it and use it for an ecommerce site.

My question is how should I go about doing this? D7 is still fairly new and I don't know if I should use it or use D6.... but I'm wanting to use it. I just don't know. There have been different reviews for it. We are at this moment a fairly small online store but want to be on a platform that will allow us to expand and grow and add, tweak, upgrade, etc...

I know every platform has it's own downsides and upsides but I'm having a really difficult time deciding which one I want or should use. Here are a list of the most pros and cons that I have read and talked about with other people.

Drupal - Cons: Huge learning curve, extremely difficult for novices. More geared towards skilled programmers. Template designs sort of lacking

Pros: Extremely powerful, very flexible, huge potential, very active support forum

Joomla - Cons: You know, I really don't know. I have to say that so far I really like Joomla... only con I can see is that it doesn't yet have the reputation for being as powerful and streamlined as Drupal.

Pros - Fairly easy to learn for a novice. Pretty straightforward. Very active support forum

Views and displaying files

Ok, ok. Yes, I did a search! But with 320,890 results it was not too helpful.

I have a folder of math standards in .docx format that I've uploaded to the site. It's in the directory as: sites/default/files/curriculum/math/standards and I've been trying like heck to get this to show up in Views. I need a list of files that users can click to download and Views seems the best/only way to get a specific list of files to display.

Add AJAX Submit to custom content type node add form

A bit confused on how to proceed. There is a lot of info about made-from-scratch forms and AJAX. What does not seem clear is how to add a simple AJAX submit (like "Submit a form without a page reload" from ajax_example.module) or similar AJAX additions to a default node add form for a couple of custom content types created via an admin interface? This is for Drupal 7.

Error after installatin when trying to install new module or theme

Hello.

I need your help.

I guess that maybe it is a problem on my server but could not find what it is or where it is the error.

I installed a newr site, just a fresh install using CPanel n a VPS server.

Immediately after installation I entered and tried to install a new theme.... an received the following error:

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You are hereHome » Administration » ModulesModules.Error message•The specified file temporary://filePzGcMt could not be copied, because the destination directory is not properly configured. This may be caused by a problem with file or directory permissions. More information is available in the system log.

http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/danland-7.x-1.0.tar.gz could not be saved to temporary://update-cache/danland-7.x-1.0.tar.gz.

•Unable to retrieve Drupal project from http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/danland-7.x-1.0.tar.gz.
-----------------------------------------

ANy idea of what could wrong?
ALL works perfectly, can create articles, change, delete them, change parameteres of the themes, or the configuration ones... BUT you can not install new themes or new modeules.

I guess the error could be on the server, but I am not sure... maybe in each virtual configuration of each domain.... any clue what in "temporary://update-cache/danland-7.x-1.0.tar.gz." temporary means?

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