Commons for Site Administrators, Part 2: How to Customize Your Online Community

SITE BUILDING WITH DRUPAL COMMONS - PART 2

Building an 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 9, 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

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Drupal Commons modifications

Extending with site building

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Modules available• Over 100 modules - inc Commons specific!

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Modules available• Over 100 modules - inc Commons specific!

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In part 1 we saw...• 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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Page layout - PanelsModify layout of landing pages, profiles, etc.

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Views

Custom lists of content

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Rules

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Today is Part 2:• What do you need to do?

• Add a new role?

• Configure group permissions?

• Add new content types - which can be added to groups, or not?

• Apache Solr Search

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Content creation• Note the form appears above summaries

What content types are needed on your groups?

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Types of user roles

Do you need additional user roles?

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New user role

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• Defaults: For non-logged in, logged in, moderator and admin.

• My site: I added Community Manager

Roles

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My “CMGR” role• Can administer

comments

• Can all content types

• Create messages

• Add revisions to content

• Administer all groups permissions

• View details for all votes

• View rate results page

• Event: Register other people

• View the site in “Admin” mode”

• Edit terms in Topics

• Create and edit paths for content

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Administration

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Content admin

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Content editing

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Registration

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Demo: Add role• Add a user role - change permissions. • Add a new user to demonstrate.

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Organic groups and permissions

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Groups• In People > Permissions you can assign

administration capability to trusted role

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Group administration

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OG Group permissions• Organic groups has its own group roles!

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Per group role config• Very flexible, you can even add roles per

group and modify what roles can do in a group!

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• Set what role group creator gets

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Unique to Commons• Non-group members can post content into

public groups• Similar to Forums functionality• Lower barriers to participation.

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Add new content type

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CMS + Groups• Flexible content management system• Content can be independent of groups/

discussion.

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Add a new content type• Administration » Structure » Content types

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Add fields

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Add content• Available now to

“Add content”. • Can’t add to any

groups.

• Next: Make it possible to add to any group.

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OG setting• Select “Group content”

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Add to group• Edit content to select

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Administer group

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Permissions per group

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Not showing yet• We’ll edit

the view

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Demo commons_bw_all

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Integrate new content types?

• Adding link, count, form, and listing does require code.

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drupal.org/node/1782922

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Apache Solr Search

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Faceted search

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Apache Solr• Separate Server

• Indexes your site

• Widely used and tested

GET (POST)Search

*SQL

WebServerPOST

index

Solr49Wednesday, October 9, 13

Available with SolrSpell checking Bias settings Suggestions

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Enable the modules

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Connect to network

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Pages + Blocks available

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More! Commons Solr modules

• Commons Search Solr User• Commons Events - Solr• Commons Search Solr

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Search users

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People listing

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Panelizer

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“More like this”

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• Configuration » Search and metadata » Apache Solr search > Use Acquia Search

Configure the block

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Use Panelizer

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Click to add content

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Under Miscellaneous

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Block added!

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Voila!

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Drupal Commons - ask questions!

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drupal.org/project/commons

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docs.acquia.com/commons67Wednesday, October 9, 13

Search issues

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drupal.org/node/2072823

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Add support request

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Acquia Training!• http://training.acquia.com/events

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Next up! Site Building in Drupal 8

acquia.com/resources/webinars

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