Installing Eclipse Groovy Plugin

Posted by Issa Ennab on June 28, 2016 Cool Tools, Development, Web Experience Management Eclipse, Groovy, WebCenter Sites
     ­­­As of WebCenter Sites 11g, Groovy is supported when used as an element type. It is suitable for when what you want to implement some business logic/computation in a familiar JAVA syntax-scripting environment (1). Groovy Language has a lot of features that are GROOVY! You need to install the Eclipse Groovy Plugin (if you are using eclipse as your IDE) for better development experience, error checking, code completion, code coloring, and etc. 

How to install Eclipse Groovy Plugin:

1-    In your Eclipse in the top menu bar, click on Help -> Install New Software

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Success Story: The SAPAN Institute

Posted by Jon Reid on June 21, 2016 Drupal case study, success story, Drupal

SapanArts.org

The Opportunity:
The SAPAN Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the education, collaboration, advancement and celebration of South Asian performing arts. SAPAN came to Function1 with a need to modernize and streamline their existing WordPress site.
 
Creating the new sapanarts.org provided an excellent opportunity to dig into the details of configuring, theming and coding on this latest and greatest Drupal platform. This build yielded rewarding results on top of increasing our...
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Dude, Where's My Block?

Posted by Jon Reid on June 10, 2016 Drupal Drupal 8, Views, Blocks

Blocks have gotten a whole lot of core functionality in Drupal 8.  The new interface can trip you up as you get used to the changes, especially when you start adding Views blocks into the mix.

Drupal 8 Block Overview 

Drupal 8 blocks are managed from the same location as in Drupal 7, Admin > Structure > Block, but the new menu, with tabs for Block Layout and Custom Block Library, is your first hint that something has changed under the hood.

 

The Block Layout page looks fairly similar to it’s Drupal 7 counterpart with the noticeable exclusion of the Add...

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