I had the same problem. Other modules are incompatible with panel3

i'm not sure if there will be a quick tut on Panels 3 but let's hope, it seems they are dumping panels 2 in favour of 3 and only supporting that module from now on (correct me if i'm mistaken)

i'm not sure if there will be a quick tut on Panels 3 but let's hope, it seems they are dumping panels 2 in favour of 3 and only supporting that module from now on (correct me if i'm mistaken)

I need help with this too. How do you go about creating the panel page in section 4.3.1 with the Panels 3 interface? I'm lost.

I don't think panels 3 is ready for production yet.

..nor is the Panels 2 alpha that you use. If you look at the Panels project page, Panels 2 is DOA with no promise of an upgrade to Panels 3 (where all the future effort will be). If I had to pick from alpha's, I'd go with Panels 3. You should put some effort into helping us with this.

Panels 3 might be the only version that gets developed (with a lot of goodies coming out) but most modules that integrate with Panels have the expected behaviour with Panels 2. So the best thing to do is go with Panels 2 until maturity. Anyhow you won't lose anything since the whole built-up is done in Content Profile Module. You can rebuild your panel later on without losing any data. Don't be hasty! Take for example Advanced Profile Kit, that currently is in Dev state and yet although warned, many people use it on production sites. When the next release will come in with many features , will have no upgrade path and people who were hasty will hit their head on the wall. One thing I learned about Drupal the last two months I got into it...you've got to be patient!!

Hi

I've been struggling, trying to use panels, all day long

Can someone fill me in, I need a list of the exact name of the modules to install so I can complete the steps listed in chapter 4 of Dorien's excellent book

One thing I would suggest is that the book be updated with a list of modules that should be downloaded and installed.

What would be even better is if there were an FTP or HTTP site where you can go to download the modules used in the book. If that were so, a reader could know that they are getting all the right things to cook with, and to then to complete everything beautifully without being anxious that you have incompatible modules. After you get the whole thing working it is a trivial task to upgrade and install new or alternate features.

Here is the list of modules I've installed but I've struck a barrier and I'm finding it hard to get further than this. Can someone give me a hint about what to do here?

installed on Drupal 6.10:

dhtml_menu-6.x-3.4.tar.gz

tagadelic-6.x-1.2.tar.gz

captcha-6.x-2.0-beta2.tar.gz

recaptcha-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz

token-6.x-1.11.tar.gz

content_profile-6.x-1.0-beta3.tar.gz

cck-6.x-2.2.tar.gz

cmf-6.x-1.6.tar.gz

nodeadmin-6.x-1.0-beta1.tar.gz

contentblocker-5.x-1.0.tar.gz

imagefield-6.x-3.0-rc1.tar.gz

imageapi-6.x-1.5.tar.gz

filefield-6.x-3.0-rc1.tar.gz

pathauto-6.x-1.1.tar.gz

views-6.x-2.3.tar.gz

ctools-6.x-1.0-alpha3.tar.gz

panels-6.x-3.0-alpha3.tar.gz

Dorien, I will happily pay to get a clean install that I can play with. It is all fine to go through the book but the concern I have is that my modules are incompatible and I need to know that things will happily live together.

contentblocker-5.x-1.0.tar.gz : What were you planning to do with that!! This is for Drupal 5!

ctools-6.x-1.0-alpha3.tar.gz & panels-6.x-3.0-alpha3.tar.gz : Remove those and use 6.x-2.0-alpha3 for Panels. This will solve all your problems and desperation! The only incompatible module is Panels , so don't fret about incompatibility issues!

Thanks for this charos

I am new to Drupal but I've been working as a programmer for 15 years - java, sql, jsp

I like what Drupal can do but it is difficult to learn the complexities of it in a short span of time. I only started on Drupal yesterday!

The first month is the toughest! There are many times that you want to hit your head to the wall or think that you're brain gets 100% cpu usage and is about to get a BSOD! At least that happened to me on February!I have no programming skills (studying Architecture) and the experience of having a small server at home just saved me few weeks of how things work. I think with your programming skills the steep learning curve of Drupal will become a line!

I followed what Tom wrote in this thread: http://drupalfun.com/question/problems-431-creating-panel-page#comment-175

Go to administer >> build >> pages (admin/build/pages). You will see a System Pages list. The top one should be 'Node view'. This is where we must make our panel.

I'll just quote Tom's post for the rest:

"This step will be different though. The node/% page is already created for you in P3 as Node View and uses the argument %node by default.

So next to Node View, just click on Operations -> Task Handlers

Choose Panel and then "Add New Handler"

Then on the next screen (Selection Criteria) choose "select by node type" and add that and set the node type ot Profile.

And then it's substantially the same as in Dorien's manual."

They really changed stuff around for Panels3, but I didn't have any problems once I knew where to go.

I use panels on my site in a limited area now and find that it works quite well and easy to update. You can see it in action. http://www.ohbytheway.biz/job-feeds.

The only thing that I do not like about it now is that it does not have a dynamic view. You have to open the page up again to see the changes.

I've posted some conversion notes here: http://drupalfun.com/content/converting-panels-3

What is the new path name that you use for panels 3?

Panels 3 when installed gives me an error in mysql database my site stops functioning. I have to delete Panel 3 module and CTools and re-install Panels 2.0 to get the system working again.

Anyone else having this problem?

I thought the same that aI had a bad upload, as I also use FileZilla, but the re-install gave me the same problem.

I am now back on Panels 2 and every things seems to work well.

Glad to see that I am not the only one having this problem.

Thanks for the feedback and check out my new site that I am working on, drupalus.com It is in the implementation stage, but decided to go live, as I develop.

Please find conversion guide to the latest Panels 3.2 here:

http://drupalfun.com/content/converting-panels-3