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I am trying out OpenPublish as an aggregated video channel for nonprofit news and information. Here's the link:http://hering.dev2.webenabled.net/video/haiti-emergency-communications-disaster-relief
I love it! Especially the back end, and I have been successful so far using the video aggregator module - which I love- to locate and categorize feeds. I realize that the way I have the Feed Item (nodes) content set up is redundant, as you can both click on the video thumbnail and watch the video on the video host provider site (in this case, YouTube), or you can click on the Title of the video and Apture will open a window which displays the video.
Actually, I would rather find a way to have a viewer click on a thumbnail image of a video and watch the video in a pop-up lightbox (or at least on our own video player), and have access to information about each nonprofit under the video.
That said, here are my questions so far:
1. How do I play the video links that come in through a video feed in a lightbox, or on a separate page using my own video player (not on, for example, YouTube), and not using apture (while I love Apture, I would like to be able to add some text and information about the nonprofit under each video)
2. How to I arrange the fields for a Video or Feed Item content type (or configure the feed processor) to automatically place the tags for each video coming in from a feed into a corresponding tag field in the node?
3. How do I set the imagecache to resize my logo so that it all fits into the space provided?
I have many more questions, but here is a start anyway...
Thanks!
Kristen
I have used "Managing News" and "Open Atrium" so far, and tinkered with "Commons". I think I like the concept and enjoy using profiles over strict distributions. I can actually, if wanted, go into the build file and add modules before the site is actually instantiated. When I run install "voila" I have the extra modules without all of the extra work. I am not a designer so for me the problem with distros and/or profiles is the lack of themes. I do not have the time or patience to theme these monsters and they look canned. Can regular themes be applied to distros and look good? Does anyone else have this frustration?
My concern with profiles and distros is the tendency to run an update and break the site, bad news if not developing in a strict development workflow.
Recently, I have implemented a decent workflow: webenabled for dev, download the code through netbeans, and copy the db locally for development on my machine. Establish a git repository in my local installation directory, push a copy out to github. Then I apply all new updates locally - if it works it gets committed, pushed to github. Then I feel confident applying the update remotely. Any new work within the dev site, that plays well, gets uploaded to my production site regularly as well.
I am interested in learning how others manage their workflow.