Comments on: Guideline for heartbeat activity

By: Stalski

Stalski — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:33:08 +0000

yes, documentation says: “The best way to find documentation for what you need on this site, is to try it out. Most of the time you will be lead over to sections that show a use case like yours. ” So look on the right or left of a heartbeat stream! it will explain everything.

“It does not seem to be a normal Drupal module which you can install through the administration backend”
The example module is a normal module, it’s installed at the demosite. I really don’t know what you are talking about. Even worse , i told you this is not to enable! it is a cheatmodule to show you what you can do.

the choice of stable or dev is your choice, i would always recommend stables of course.

“Where exactly can I find the documentation”
The documentation pages are indeed not yet completed but you can find info here as well. So read all stuff at the project page and this blog.

I don’t think i can help you any more than this.

By: Jaochoo

Jaochoo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:52:54 +0000

This is the documentation page: http://heartbeat.menhireffect.be/page/documentation All links in the sidebar (titled “Guideline”) as well in the main body are empty or lead to empty pages or 404s.

By: Jaochoo

Jaochoo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:42:35 +0000

Yes, I am rather new to Drupal. However, I understand the difference between development release and stable release as well as I know how to install a Drupal module and configure it. What I wanted to know is:
- Use the development release or the stable release?
- How to use the example module? It does not seem to be a normal Drupal module which you can install through the administration backend.
- Where exactly can I find the documentation? The text-files on the demo site are empty.

By: Stalski

Stalski — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:41:07 +0000

Yes you don’t understand it completely.

http://drupal.org/project/heartbeat Here this is only ONE version of heartbeat!! The red one is a development release, read drupal documentation!

The modules that are downloadable at the demosite are NOT for production usage. It is a demo module!!! You can use things from it as you want.

So basically just install heartbeat and read documentation. There’s nothing more to it than that.
I have the intension that this is your first drupal setup? I never got questions like that actually …
I hope you understand i cannot help you learn drupal from scratch. Heartbeat is not the most simple module, so maybe you need to try some basic drupal stuff.

By: Jaochoo

Jaochoo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:51:16 +0000

Yes, I visited the demo site as mentioned earlier and I am impressed of what the module does there - that’s why I am asking here if and how the current version is capable of what you are doing on the demo site. However, it is still somewhat confusing: There are 2 module versions on drupal.org for download, then there is the download section here with 2 additional downloads. I do not know what to install and how to install it and there is no documentation provided (neither on Drupal.org nor here; all the text-files here are dummy files named “test” or whatever). Or do I miss something?

By: Stalski

Stalski — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:21:11 +0000

First of all. Have you visited the demo site at heartbeat.menhireffect.be. I am talking about the features exposed there. Look closely to everything installed and explained! heartbeat implementations module is downloadable there to show some nice stuff.
Heartbeat_example module is a show-off module that comes within the heartbeat module install!
I am doing work on the module, but it is released and stable as you can see at drupal.org
In short: The facebook alike streams is very much possible with current stable release as i did it. The custom modules and rules export i have put in the downloads section at the heartbeat demo site!

By: Jaochoo

Jaochoo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:33:38 +0000

Thank you for answering my question. However, I have to say that I am confused now. I really don’t know what the heartbeat_example and heartbeat_implementation modules are which you are talking about in your reply to my initial comment.

However, as far as I understand you, you are still doing some work on the module which will be released soon. So for the moment, it would already help me a lot if you could tell me if the current version (the version which is available for download on drupal.org) is capable of implementing a Facebook-like stream like you did here on your website. If so, I would even more appreciate if you could provide some hints how to tune it that way (e.g. if using the version from drupal.org there has to be much customization to be done, where to start, etc.)

Thank you very much!

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:38:50 +0000

Gotcha. No worries. I did get the shouts working. I haven’t had much time to play around with the rest but I will. I think it’s a matter of saving the configuration of the rules. Even though they are automatically created, it seems they need to be saved once before taking effect. (at least that seems to be the issue). I’ll continue to play with the rules and settings when I have some more time. Thanks for a great module. I think it’s perfect for the site I’m building.

By: Stalski

Stalski — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:34:24 +0000

I have no idea actually. hrules module (submodule) uses rules and you may need to configure the default heartbeat rules.
Have you configured the stream and did not deny the messages?
Is there something logged what so ever in heartbeat_activity table?
My guess is that nothing is logged because no rules are triggered. Or you call the api function to log, or you use rules, but something has to be logged ofcourse.
Why the shouts block is not appearing, i don’t have a clue. i cannot reproduce the problem. Does the permission “make shout” is set ok?

Try it out and create an issue on drupal.org . It will be much easier to follow it there.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:46:40 +0000

Is there something in particular that I might be doing wrong? (or not doing at all). Does heartbeat depend on rules? I just thought the default blocks would work upon installation. If there is more set up involved please let me know. I absolutely love the look of this module and would like to be able to use it.