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'Custom Publishing Options' Hits 1000 Installations!

Out of the box, Drupal comes with 3 workflow states for node types: Published, Sticky, and Promote to Frontpage. 'Published' is useful enough to control if content is visible to non-administrative users, but what if you want to mark content as Archived, Featured, or other custom statuses? You could add a Field on the content type, but that comes with some overhead to manage across multiple content types. Plus, you have to remember to remove it from the display, and set user permissions on the Field. That's a lot of work for busy content creators!

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How to: Collecting Custom Dates in Drupal

The FormAPI, first introduced in Drupal 4, is a very powerful API that allows you to create forms effortlessly. Every major release of Drupal, the FormAPI has become more mature and flexible, allowing you to create full forms with fields, and provide ways of altering them on output with #after_build, or hook_form_alter, for example.

In Drupal 7, the FormAPI has a 'date' type form element. This field generally is used to collect data such as a birthdate, or a date in the future. By default, it provides a month, day, and year option as 3 inline select drop downs.

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Delaware Electric Cooperative

The Delaware Electric Cooperative website was designed to work on all devices so customers would be 'plugged in' and be able to stay up to date on company news, power outages, and read advisory notices.

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Southern Delaware Tourism

Southern Delaware has an abundance of ecotourism activities. There's everything from whale and dolphin watching to beachcombing, nature walks, photography opportunities, canoeing, and bicycling. Southern Delaware is part of the Atlantic Flyway, home to a variety of our feathered friends. Numerous offer everything from beaches, camping, nature trails and seminars, boating and fishing (surf, ocean, bay and freshwater).

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