Hi John. I'm also a drupal user who has hacked in some exhibits on systems I am using. I've been aware of the exhibit module but haven't used it yet because I am still on a drupal 5.x system. I wouldn't worry too much about missing the "latest features"---exhibit isn't changing that fast, and the changes are mainly backward compatible. So it should generally be easy to just point to the latest exhibit codebase to get the latest features. Some won't be available through drupal, though. In particular, it looks like the module hard codes a list of available views into the module, so if someone makes a new view, you won't immediately see it. A bigger issue is that the drupal module is being relatively dictatorial about the layout, putting the facets where _it_ want them instead of giving the full flexibility of editing an html page; however, that is probably the right thing for consistency with the rest of the drupal install.
On a separate note, my student Scott Ostler has been continuing to work on making regular exhibits (backed by google spreadsheets) become editable with a minimum of fuss. Compared to drupal, the advantage is that you keep complete control over the look of the page/exhibit. On the downside, your data isn't in drupal. It's not ready to release yet, but you can see what he's up to at http://valinor.mit.edu/~sostler/todo/todo.html . John Callahan wrote: > One of the projects I am working on with Exhibit requires users to be > able to contribute content online. It seems this is becoming more > popular each year. I had sent a previous email to this list about a > month ago...and that conversation led me to using Exhibit and the notion > of using Google spreadsheets. Thanks for the responses. Good ideas. > > > Several of my sites are based on the Drupal Content Management System. > So, I was thinking of using Drupal as the input mechanism for most of > the items (maybe using Google spreadsheets or other tables for time > series/TimePlot data.) The thought was to write separate code to > retrieve info from the Drupal database tables, convert to json format > and then into Exhibit. Then I noticed http://drupal.org/project/exhibit > and http://drupal.org/project/timeline. Seems like a lot of the work is > already done! > > > Do these Drupal modules require older versions of TimeLine or Exhibit? > If I use these Drupal modules, would I consistently be missing out on > the latest features? I'm curious on people's thoughts about integrating > SIMILE widgets with Drupal via these modules. Thanks. > > - John > > > **************************************** > John Callahan > Geospatial Application Developer > > Delaware Geological Survey > University of Delaware > 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 > Tel: (302) 831-3584 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dgs.udel.edu > **************************************** > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
