Commons for Site Administrators, Part 1: How to Configure Your Online Community

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

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

http://www.acquia.com/resources/webinars7Wednesday, October 2, 13

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

https://www.acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars73Wednesday, October 2, 13