Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 16:01

This video shows you how to create a custom page for your site using the Panels module. You can use Panels to help you make pages (including a front page) that include a variety of content from your site including content that exists in views, blocks and nodes. The Panels module is dependent on the Chaos Tool Suite module.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 19:24.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Thanks, Rob. This was great. Hope you'll dive deeper into Panels with subsequent videos.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 12:21.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Hello,

I added panels and ctools to my modules and enabled them, but now the entire site has gone blank. How do I deal with this?

many thanks,

Bryan

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 21:11.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

That's not good! I would check out the issue queues for both modules and see if there any similar issues reported. You can also FTP in to your domain and delete the folders that contain the module files and that should allow you to view your site again.

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Submitted by joshmeyer on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 11:10.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

I'm still amazed at how much you can do in Drupal without having very much in the way of developer-skills. Thanks for sharing the knowledge, love the site!

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Submitted by Andrei (not verified) on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 18:41.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Hi. How did you get those widgets and all those "contents" in the Miscellaneous field ????

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 21:11.

Re: Panels - Available Widgets

The available widgets and content are populated with existing pages, nodes, blocks and views available on the site. So before you get started with panels you need to create the content you want elsewhere.

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Submitted by Francewhoa (not verified) on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 03:17.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Thanks Rob :) I added a link to your video at http://drupal.org/node/561730

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Submitted by Ricbi (not verified) on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 03:25.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Hi Rob,

thanks a lot for this video. Panels is a great module and with your tut I was able to implement it really fast. I love your site, great job!

Ricbi

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Submitted by Emma Watson (not verified) on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 05:47.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

Hi Rob,

I am a newbie to Drupal and tried out Views first, but could not get it right. Than I found your tutorial for Panels and it worked for me. Thanks a lot :-)

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Submitted by Richard (not verified) on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 21:11.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

I like panels in principle but I've always steered away from using it due to the associated code-bloat along with the issue queue which has often concerned me - this is a very complex module and that complexity will no doubt attract a fair few bugs.

I'm re-designing my homepage at the moment and I've decided to go for a manual approach rather than using panels - it's really not that hard to modify the Zen theme once you get to grips with it, plus, it's a learning experience.

Still, good video Rob

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Submitted by Jake Porter (not verified) on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 20:49.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

is there away for me to make a section in a panel all the contents in a directory. I have .swf files in one folder and I would like it to show them all in the same way it did your posts.

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 22:29.

Re: Creating A Custom Page Using Panels

I believe that if you want to create a list automatically then the data about that list needs to be in the database. So what I think you'll need to do is figure out a way to import a list of the files in that directory. The table wizard module is a good one to consider. Once you have the information about the list in the database you can then use the Views module to list the information anywhere on the site.

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