1 $Id: INSTALL.txt,v 1.13.2.1 2008/12/20 00:53:06 dww Exp $
3 It is assumed that you have Drupal up and running. Be sure to check
4 the http://drupal.org web site if you need assistance. If you run
5 into problems, you should always read the INSTALL.txt that comes with
6 the Drupal package and read the online documentation.
9 0. Always backup your database before you enable a new contributed module!
12 1. Place the signup package into your Drupal modules/ directory.
15 2. (Optional) Customize the form presented to users when signing up
16 for content on your site. Unfortuantely, there is not yet a way to
17 do this from within your site, you must modify a theme function to
18 change this form. See the comment above "theme_signup_user_form()"
19 in the theme/signup_form.inc file. If you want to change the form,
20 you should define your own version of theme_signup_user_form() in
21 your site's theme (e.g. as phptemplate_signup_user_form()).
24 3. Enable the signup module by navigating to:
25 Administer > Site building > Modules
27 Note: if you want support for automatic closing of events and
28 reminder emails you must also install and enable either the Event
29 module (http://drupal.org/project/event) or use the Date module
30 (http://drupal.org/project/date) and add at least one date field.
32 Click the 'Save configuration' button at the bottom to commit your
36 4. For the final configuration of the module, navigate to:
37 Administer > Site configuration > Signup
39 Here you can configure the options for the module.
42 5. Enable the node types that you wish to allow signups for under:
43 Administer > Content management > Content types
45 You may wish to create a new content type specifically for event
46 signups (which you can customize via the Content Construction Kit
47 from http://drupal.org/project/cck), or install the Event module
48 (http://drupal.org/project/event).
51 6. Grant the proper access to user accounts under:
52 Administer > User management > Access control
54 'sign up for content':
55 Allows users to sign up for any content types that are signup-enabled.
56 NOTE: Enabling 'sign up for content' for the anonymous user will
57 allow anonymous users to sign up by entering an email address.
60 Allows users to cancel their own signups. Without this permission,
61 only users with 'administer all signups' or 'administer signups for
62 own content' permission are allowed to cancel signups.
63 NOTE: Anonymous users aren't allowed cancel their signups even if
64 this permission is granted to the role 'anonymous user'.
67 Allows users to view all of the users who have signed up for any
68 signup-enabled content on the site.
70 'email all signed up users':
71 Allows users to send an email to everyone who has signed up for
72 any signup-enabled content on the site.
74 'email users signed up for own content':
75 Allows a user to send an email to everyone who has signed up for
76 content owned by the user.
78 'admininister all signups':
79 Implies 'view all signups' and 'cancel own signups' permissions.
80 Allows users to view who has signed up for nodes, to cancel
81 signups of other users, to close signups for specific nodes, and
82 to configure system-wide settings related to this module.
84 'administer signups for own content':
85 Allows users to view who has signed up, to cancel signups of
86 other users, and to close signups for any nodes that the user owns.
89 Allows users that can administer signups for a given node to
90 cancel the signups of other users from the node/N/signups page.
92 Viewing the signup report (Administer > Content management > Signup),
93 and configuring the module (Administer > Site configuration > Signup)
94 are restricted to users who have the 'access administration pages'
98 7. (Optional) If you have enabled the Views module on your site
99 (http://drupal.org/project/views), be sure you are running Views
100 version 5.x-1.6 or later. Once you have everything installed and
101 working, you should consider customizing any of the signup-related
102 views to better suit the needs of your site. For example, if you
103 are using the event module, you might want to add a filter to the
104 'current signups' view to restrict it to events that have not
107 8. (Optional) Configure if and how you want a list of users signed up
108 for each node to appear. Under the 'Advanced settings' at
109 admin/settings/signup, if the signup form and related information
110 is being displayed on the node itself or on a separate tab, you
111 will find a setting to control how you want the list of signed up
112 users to appear. You can either use the built-in listing, no
113 listing at all, or if you have enabled the Views module on your
114 site (see step #7 above), you can also embed a view for this.
116 There is a default view included called 'signup_user_list' which is
117 disabled by default. If you enable this view to customize it at
118 all, you should be careful about two things:
120 A) Be sure to restrict access to this view to roles that have the
121 'view all signups' permission to avoid information disclosure.
123 B) If you continue to embed the view on the signup nodes, be sure
124 to disable the menu items for the view, so that you don't get a
125 duplicate tab with the same information.
127 Note that if you just use it in its default (disabled) form, it
128 will still work as an embedded view under the signup form, and you
129 do not need to worry about these two things.
131 Of course, instead of embedding the view under the signup form, you
132 can also disable the setting entirely, then enable the default
133 'signup_user_list' view to provide the information on a separate