Content editing experience

The module is now obsolete. New frameworks such as comet or HTML5's websockets should be used instead.

Live Update is a module that provides a flexible and scalable to provide up to date in content to users without requiring page refreshes. Live Update uses JQuery to poll lightweight text files that tell the users' browser if new content is available. If so, JQuery then makes another call to get the updated content stored as static HTML.

A blog post detailing how one might use this API to set up a Question and Answer (similar to our PBS Engage work) scenerio is here

API

Live Update provides a simple API for modules hook into and allow Drupal to store, retrieve and insert content updates of all kinds. The API breaks down into two basic functions:

Telling the browser how and where to look for updates and what do to when you found them.

live_update_initialize($element, $settings)

Telling Drupal to record a new content update.

live_update_update_content($element, $html, $settings)

Live Update Modules

This module provides Live Update functionality for:

The Avalanche Forecast module allows forecasters to create an advisory.

This module allows access to nodes with attached and related files, as well as access to file node contents, via a WebDAV metaphor similar to File Server. The user can browse all files existing in the system by file MIME type, attached- or related-to node type (e.g., event, story, etc.), and attached- or related-to node parent group. Group browsing additionally supports OG Vocabulary integration, which browses by group taxonomy to find attached- or related-to nodes.

For a faster understanding of this module, please see the original author's presentation from Drupalcon DC, available here.

At one step you create node with translations. Taxonomy and other cck
fields bind to these translations too.

LangsAtOnce creates additional title, body fields for selected languages. So
when you go "create node" page you face with normal fields and
title/body areas. These additional ares will be added as translations.

This module creates an easy live blogging feature to provide live coverage of an event. The content administrator can create a live event node and add updates to that node.

The Google News module for Drupal 7 generates a Google news compatible sitemap feed from your Drupal site's content.