Help in setting it up [#1347492]

Hi,

Twice I have ended up with the WSOD after trying to get precision to work with panels everywhere, lucky I have a handy generic DB backup so I can revert to the old site. Is there any documentation of how to set this up from scratch? ie

1) Make precision sub theme (do you even do this with panels everywhere?)
2) How to enable it properly so that I have something on the screen that looks like a website, however basic and unstyled

All the documentation talks about 'variants' and stuff but nothing in step by step plain English, and the tutorials all tell of what do AFTER it's been set up. Would be most helpful to have some decent info from the very start from enabling the module > running panels everywhere. Then I can mess around with it once it's setup. I can't wait to get panels everywhere up and running, this is clearly the future, no more .tpl files and backward templating system!

I would be more than happy to write a tutorial after I have managed to get this going. Need to lose the WSOD first!

Thanks :)

Comments

Comment #1

lowkee CreditAttribution: lowkee commented 20 December 2011 at 00:35

Documentation on this is direly needed. I have no idea how to even begin using it. Do I make a subtheme, if so, using which parts?

Even a 15 min screencast showing how to use this to recreate the default drupal layout would be highly helpful. As of now, there is just nothing to explain how this even works.

Comment #2

samwillc CreditAttribution: samwillc commented 20 December 2011 at 11:59

Totally agree. I'm avoiding it until there is some decent documentation. What's the point really of making something with no instructions.

Sam.

Comment #3

Snipon CreditAttribution: Snipon commented 10 February 2012 at 09:59

+1 I will do this asap.

Comment #4

samwillc CreditAttribution: samwillc commented 10 February 2012 at 10:36

Great, will give it a shot when you're done. I don't mind adding to the instructions once I know how to set the thing up in the first place on a local test site :)

Sam.

Comment #5

Snipon CreditAttribution: Snipon commented 10 February 2012 at 14:48

I have added some basic how-tos in the readme file.

Comment #6

achton

Denmark

CreditAttribution: achton commented 19 February 2012 at 12:40

I have decided to use this for a D6 project right now. Will be very interested in any documentation in the pipeline, and am ready to supply feedback if needed.

Comment #7

achton

Denmark

CreditAttribution: achton commented 27 February 2012 at 13:01

Okay, I eventually figured out how to apply the grid styles from precision.css to the panel panes, using the instructions by Snipon as comitted here. I do think it needs some elaboration though, since there are a lot of very specific Panels and Views terms that one needs to identify before the right setup is achieved, e.g. site template, content pane (Views), layout (Panels), panel page, grid styles, etc. They may need capitalization or something in the README.

However, I fail to grasp all the different options available in the settings UI for the panel pane - width, prefix, padding, push, pull, etc.. They obviously match the CSS classes in precision.css, but I cannot find any explanation as to what they are supposed to do, and how important it is to apply them.

Another question I have, is how I can apply the grid via the content pane display in my view to all the items I am listing. As far as I can tell, I should be able to apply, e.g. the "grid-12" class to each item and thus emulate the grid style from Views proper, only without using <table>. But I still don't understand how the rest of the CSS classes are used.

I feel like I am close to being able to layout the site I'm working on really quickly, but am just missing these final pieces.