April 17th, 2008 - 10 am

UTO has released the ASU directory module for use on ASU Drupal sites.

What is it? It's a module for Drupal 5.x that you can install which will give you groups of people in views. All information is pulled from the directory. Once you've pulled it into your Drupal site, it will create a node for each person. It also provides a view which links to the nodes, filtered by the group name (all group names are stored as taxonomy terms)

What is it used for? It's perfect for creating a dynamic staff/about page which will update to match the people in your directory group.

Does it have other features? Yes, it has the ability to change the order of members, add additional information to each person, or even hide people from displaying on the page. For example, you may not want to display student workers on your staff page, so you can hide them in that particular view. You can do pretty much anything you want with the data, since the module simply provides you a Drupal view.

Why should I use it? The main reason for using it is to provide an updated list of your staff members. You can create an about page in roughly 5 minutes which can be easily updated by simply querying the group name again. If you do have questions, there are some troubleshooting steps in the readme.txt file, included in the module.

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Download the current version: asu_directory-5.x-2.0.tar.gz

Download the old version: directoryASU-5.x-1.4.1.tar.gz