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SITE BUILDING WITH DRUPAL COMMONS - PART 1
Configure your online community
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Acquia Training!• http://training.acquia.com/events
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Acquia Training!• http://training.acquia.com/events
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Drupal Commons• http://commons.acquia.com/
• https://www.acquia.com/downloads#commons4Wednesday, October 2, 13
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Engaging communities
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Who is this session for?• You’re a site builder/developer and you want
to know what you can do with Drupal Commons.
• You have a Drupal Commons site, and you want to know how to modify your site.
• You can also schedule a demoacquia.com/demo-drupal-commons-3
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Drupal Commons
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Drupal Commons out-of-the-box functionality
Going beyond the basics
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Unifying your community• What other systems are you consolidating?
Blogs?
Forums?
Wiki?
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Content discovery
How will your users discover relevant content?
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Content creation• Note the form appears above summaries
What content types are needed on your groups?
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User roles and interaction
Do you need additional user roles?
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Marking content
Do your users need other ways to mark content?
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Today - Part 1 we will...• Use modules included with Drupal Commons.
• Add contributed modules.
• Add new listings of content - Views.
• Change the layout of the groups landing page - Panels.
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Next time - Part 2• What else do you need to do?
• Ask support questions in Commons issue queue!
• Add a new role?
• Configure group permissions?
• Add new content types - which can be added to groups, or not?
• Use Features to save your configuration?
• Add user to group when they join community!
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Modules included• Over 100 modules - inc Commons specific!
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Modules included• Over 100 modules - inc Commons specific!
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Extending with included modules
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Case: Redirect new users• New user signs up• Redirect to a page - community guidelines
for their reading pleasure.
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Enable Rules UI
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Add a rule for en event
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Add new action
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User signs up
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Gets redirected!
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Learn more about rules• Learn the Rules framework• http://nodeone.se/en/learn-the-rules-
framework
• Actions on events• Notifications: Notify Y if Z. • Schedule content: Unpublish after X days,
close comments after X days
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Add a new moduleNew functionality
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Case: Menu icons• Added new item to main menu• No icon available.
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Menu icons• https://drupal.org/project/menu_icons
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Install new module• Example: Menu icons
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Menu icon configuration
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Voila?
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Edit image style!
16 x 16
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Custom icon in place
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Listings of content: Views
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What’s going on?• Filter by following/not following
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What’s going on?• Click tabs to filter types of content
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Recent site activity
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User profiles
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Active content
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Content discovery• Activity across the site • Active groups, Recent site activity
• What I’m interested in• Activity within my selected groups• Users I follow• Topics I follow
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Case: Open questions• Imagine this was a support/help site... • Show a custom list of questions with no
answers across the site.
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Views!• Add view of
Questions• Filter out
questions that have answers
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Q & A
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Q & A
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• Format:• HTML list• Fields format-
fields inline, comma separated
• Fields:• Title• Post date
View config
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Relationship• Add relationship > Referencing entity
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Add filter• Filter for “empty” results, to identify where
there is no content (answer) referencing a question.
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Review views config
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Custom lists of anything!• Extend that list - some ideas:
• Add new lists - ideas:•
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Where to place it?• We don’t use block layout in Drupal
Commons for most blocks
These are blocksMenuUtility linksSearch box
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Change layout:Panels
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Landing pages
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Basic pages
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Profile pages
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Front page - logged in
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Customize this page
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Change layout
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Customize options
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Demo: Add block• Add “Unanswered questions” to home
landing page.
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Case: Anonymous landing
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Structure > Panels
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Demo: Add content
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Add content• Options or add custom content
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Change style?
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• commons-pod
Add CSS class
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More help!• Drupal 7 Display Modules, Part 2: Page
Layouts with Panels http://shar.es/KEdbH Acquia webinar - With OS Training
• Drupalize.me - Free panels introductiondrupalize.me/series/learning-page-manager
• Our in-depth in-person Panels course!training.acquia.com/course/drupal-7-panels
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Drupal Commons - ask questions!
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drupal.org/project/commons
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Search issues
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Add support request
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Recordings available
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