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Drupal Content types, model entry, tutorial and big report

Wed, 28/11/2007 - 16:23 — jonathanm

Drupal has Content types, e.g. Page, Story and blog entry. We can add types and should use that for Model catalogue entries and Tutorials.

  • A bonus when using Content types is that the Create content item would add Model catalogue entries and Tutorials as choices of types to create.
  • permissions to view, create, edit their own topics and edit all topics of a certain content types can be assigned to user groups.

Started to add the news mechanism

Wed, 28/11/2007 - 12:56 — jonathanm

Created a News category for  stories  (articles)

  • (I'm not sure of any real reason to use a Story topic rather than an ordinary Page.)
  • All the News stories can then be found by clicking on the News link in the Categories > Articles type page under Administration. I noted the URL it sent me to.

Added News menu item and linked it to the above noted URL.

 

Todo:

  • Make a side bar with just titles.

 

WYSIWYG edited pages have no new lines

Wed, 28/11/2007 - 11:57 — jonathanm

Paragraphs are correctly enclosed in <p></p> and no <br> are used. Oviously at the moment the CSS doesn't create a new line at the end of a paragraph.

Adding an empty line in the doesn't help as it just adds an empty paragraph (actually includes a non-breaking space).

 

I've forced my blog entries my going into the source and adding <br/>. We should comply with XHTML and close all tags.

 

Changed the Category "Type" to "Page type"

Wed, 28/11/2007 - 11:37 — jonathanm

This category applies to pages and book pages so the new name is more explanatory.

Subcategories or "terms" in Drupal terminology are Model entry (for pages describing a model, especially for the model catalogue) and Tutorial.

Started to add the Simile Book as a Drupal book

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 15:09 — jonathanm

I've started to add the Simile Book as a Drupal book .

See the TWiki Simile Book page.

FCKeditor installed

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 15:03 — jonathanm

I installed the FCKeditor to provide WYSIWYG editing. It seems good.

I was then able to paste the Declarative modelling page in including the image.

A disadvantage is now there is no spell check and I got used to Firefox text editor providing that.

Reference

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 14:28 — jonathanm

This section provides reference material for Simile.

Chapter 3. The submodel concept

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 14:26 — jonathanm

This chapter describes the submodel concept as used in Simile. This construct is a key feature of Simile.

Population dynamics models

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 14:21 — jonathanm

You will probably by now appreciate that you have a variety of options when it comes to modelling population dynamics. You can adopt a lumped approach in System Dynamics, using a compartment to represent population size, and flows to represent demographic processes of reproduction, migration and mortality. Or, you can adopt a disaggregated System Dynamics approach, using a compartment-flow structure to represent the dynamics of one age/size/sex class, embedded in a multiple-instance submodel to represent all the classes.

Modular models

Tue, 27/11/2007 - 14:20 — jonathanm

The term "modular modelling" usually refers to the use of interchangeable components (or modules) in a model. The component may be a single equation, but typically it is a large component: for example, a plant submodel or a soil water submodel. There have been calls for the development of modular modelling approaches for some two decades, and some working systems, motivated by the advantages that this would confer on the modelling process in terms of model construction, testing and reuseability of components.

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