Fields

The Drupal 7 Interval Field module provides a simple way to create a duration or interval field on any Drupal 7 field-able entity. A common use for this might be on a content type that generally keeps track of dates. Sometimes it easier to summarize a group of dates to a user or visitor using an interval field rather than selecting multiple dates.

An interval field is useful for keeping track of data such as:

The Drupal 7 Smart Trim module allows you complete control over how you want text to be displayed when shortened. Put another way this is the module to use if you want to display a teaser or a beginning part of a longer text area.

Once installed you are able to set a variety of things. These include: shorten length by either words or characters, what to display for the ellipse (...), if you want a "read more" link to appear and what you want the link to say and lastly if you prefer to use the Drupal summary option.

Drupal: Configuring Override Node Options Module

All the best modules are simply built, and override node options is exactly that. The purpose of this module is to give you individual control over the fields with the authoring and publishing fieldsets on Drupal nodes.

Within permissions you are able to set access control (based on role) to show or hide these fields. Some of the fields include sticky at top of page, promoted to front page, authored by and authored on.

In this video we look at the Publication Date module. This module allows content creators to use the date in which the content on their website is published and NOT just when it is created. In other words, if you create a post a week prior to publishing it, this module will use the date in which the post goes to published. Again, this is a simple module but can be extremely helpful if you post a lot of content or have a habit of writing content days or weeks prior to publishing.

The Drupal 7 Conditional Fields module makes it easy to build dynamic and complex forms with Drupal 7 Fields. Any Drupal entity that has fields can pretty much be built into a dynamic and conditional form. The Conditional Fields module essentially lets you set conditions for how specific fields act based on another dependent field on the form. The simplest example is that this module can hide or show a field based on the value of another field. If you are still confused at what this module can do, watch the video to find out more!

The Drupal 7 Fences Module is a lifesaver for the HTML purist in all of us. By default Drupal adds a lot of extra markup that is not always needed. The reasons Drupal adds the extra markup is to make sure it can work out of the box for as many different requirements as possible. However, in many cases this markup is not needed. This is where the Drupal Fences module comes in. This module not only lets you choose how to structure the markup around your Drupal 7 fields, it also comes with a wide variety of completely customizable field templates.

The Drupal 7 Field Formatter Class module allows you to add classes to the display of individual fields that are output by Drupal using the Field API. This module is useful to help save you from writing as many lines of CSS as you can use this to implement common classes across multiple fields or even use it to differentiate the same field used across multiple content types. This is a flexible tool for those site builders or themers that need a little extra help when styling the display of their Drupal fields.

In the second part of this module investigator episode, I continue looking at the Drupal 7 Email field module and how the module implements Drupal 7 hooks to interact with the Drupal 7 Field API.

This is part 2 of the Daily Dose of Drupal episode 55. Unfortunately this one was even longer than part 1. I will try to shorten these videos up a little bit going forward.

In this episode you will learn: