Are you a tattler? No, not the kind mom told you not to be, but rather the Tattler application from Phase2 Technology.
“Tattler (app) is an open source topic monitoring tool for today’s Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on the topics you want. Using semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to find mentions of the issues most relevant to a journalist, researcher, advocate or communications professional.
Built and distributed on open source Drupal, Tattler’s allows a user to easily filter, organize and share content gathered from the Web.”
This Drupal installation profile was something I have been waiting to get my hands on for the last few weeks. When it finally was made available, I went to install it and immediately had a major problem with the installation.
The error was during the profile installation where the content types for the buzzmonitor module are being created. Following this issue in the Drupal issue queue for Tattler, I make several passes and have come up with a work around that allows me to get Tattler up and running.
For those who are interested, our system that we are running Tattler on has the follow versions of O/S, MySQL and PHP:
- O/S Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- MySQL database 5.0.51a
- PHP 5.2.11-0.dotdeb.1
Now here are the steps I am taking with the current version of Tattler running and working around this particular “sources” content type error.
- Download and extract Tattler tattler-1.0RC1-155.tar.gz (Don’t run the installer yet!)
- Download Buzzmonitor module version 6.x-1.0-beta1. (IMPORTANT: Version 1, NOT 2)
- Extract Buzzmonitor module version 1 into the /sites/all/modules/buzzmonitor directory of the Tattler distribution.
- Now, run the Tattler installation.
- Once the Tattler installation completes download the Buzzmonitor 6.x-2.0-beta1 (IMPORTANT: Version 2, NOT 1)
- Extract this to your Tattler installation and run the update.php script.
Doing this has worked around the problem but has not fully identified the source of the problem. It appears that not everyone is having this problem so remediation is a bit slow while the maintainers await more information. Hopefully this points them in a good direction.
BTW, now that I have Tattler up and running, I am REALLY excited. Less than 24 hours of running it and I still feel like a kid in a candy store. The “application” is really neat, but I also can’t wait to get in and see how they “glued” everything together within Drupal.
Blessings
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Did you use the default drupal install that came with tattler or did you install drupal first and then use the tattler config?
Hi James. Thanks for the question. We used the Drupal installation that came packaged with Tattler.