Lessons learned - Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 Upgrade
I just finished another big site update from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. No question this one was easily the most complicated one I've done so far. The site is full of node references, theme overrides, and custom fields. These Drupal 7 migrations upgrades have so-far been fairly straightforward - just follow the step-by-step and all has worked out fairly well. Not so this one.
I'll spare you most of the gory details. Maybe when the battle fatigue wears off and the wounds scar over I'll put up a post or two about it. For now I just want to leave you with a couple of, OK looks like it's 3, things to think about (and for me to remember) when someone comes to you asking for this kind of help.
How to Set Defaults in Drupal's Tableselect Form Element
This may be entirely obvious to those of you who work with forms all the time and create tableselect form elements in Drupal, but for some reason I had a hard time with it. So if you ever get tripped up setting default selections in Drupal's tableselect form element this might help. (Or at least it will help me the next time I need it!)
The code I was working on was a simple tableselect field that shows a product, size, price, and the remaining inventory of each product's size. This last bit was key because the client for whom I was developing this module absolutley required that remaining inventory be shown to prospective buyers. He had only so many to sell; and his promise to buyers was the limited number of originals - a pretty compelling proposition.
