boxes
Simple Spaces Recipe for a Static Welcome Widget
grayside — Sun, 03/07/2010 - 00:33
One of the little conundrums in OpenAtrium (and I imagine in Spaces) is building static content for the space. (Or in OpenAtrium terms, getting a nice dashboard box to stay put, yet be customizable by group.)
There are countless ways of doing this, but I opted to create a CCK Textarea field in my group content type (named field_group_welcome_message) and turn on the PHP filter.
Then I created a Box (which is what OpenAtrium uses, could just as well have been a block) using the following snippet:
