THE LEADER IN DRUPAL PLATFORM DESIGN AND …commons.esipfed.org/sites/default/files/Energy.gov (2012-09-19).pdfDRUPAL 7 • January 5, 2011 Drupal 7 released • April 8, 2011 Energy.gov

THE LEADER IN DRUPAL PLATFORM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Wednesday, September 19, 12

ENERGY.GOV


WHO IS PHASE2?


PLATFORM SPECIALISTS


PLATFORM SPECIALISTS


DRUPAL COMMUNITY

55 12 50+ 4Involved Drupal

Professionals

Speakers atDrupalCon

Denver

Key ModulesMaintained

DistributionsMaintained


THE NEW ENERGY.GOVWednesday, September 19, 12

PRIMARY PROJECT GOALS• Consolidation of 100’s of office sites

• Technology

• Hosting

• Design

• Content

• Maintenance


TECHNOLOGY GOALS• Choose the right technology for the future.

• Transform technology exercises into content exercises, especially the creation of office sites.

• Empower the content creators


FUTURE-PROOFING THE STACK


“”Tim O’Reilly

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.


DRUPAL 7• January 5, 2011

Drupal 7 released

• April 8, 2011Energy.gov development started

• August 3, 2011Energy.gov launched

• August 2013Drupal 8 released / Drupal 6 EOL


NEW IN DRUPAL 7• Entities and fields

• DB API and EntityFieldQuery

• Image styles

• UX improvements for administrators

• Scalability & Performance enhancements


DRUPAL CONTRIB• Organic Groups

• Context

• Field modules (Address, Link, Date, Refereneces, etc.)

• Media

• and many, many more


SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGY• Apache SOLR

• Memcached

• Jenkins


OFFICE SITES


OFFICESWednesday, September 19, 12

OFFICE SITE REQUIREMENTS• Creation & maintenance without additional

development or infrastructure.

• Separate teams for each office.

• Shared content between offices.


ORGANIC GROUPS


ORGANIC GROUPS• Create groups

• Content is added to groups

• Users are members of groups

• Membership-based access control

• Any fieldable entity can be a group or a member of a group.


GROUP TYPEWednesday, September 19, 12

GROUP MEMBERSHIPWednesday, September 19, 12

OFFICES AS ORGANIC GROUPS• Each office is a taxonomy term in the

“Offices” vocabulary

• Each office can be enabled as a group

• Group-enabled offices are fully managed from this platform.

• Non-group offices contain links and information about the external site.


OFFICESWednesday, September 19, 12

OFFICE CREATION• Create the Office taxonomy term

• Create the “Home page” node

• Create the “News page” node

• Create the “Contact Us” node

• ...


OG TASKSWednesday, September 19, 12

EMPOWERING CONTENT CREATORS


HURDLES• Page vs Node

• Block creation vs Block placement

• Revisions vs Drafts


PAGES VS NODES


PAGES VS NODES• Users think about Pages

• Pages with only blocks

• Publishing workflow doesn’t include block placements


BLOCK REFERENCES• Block reference fields to emulate regions

• “Landing page” node types for each page layout

• Can be combined with other methods (context, core block module, etc.)


BLOCK PLACEMENT WITHIN A PAGE NODEWednesday, September 19, 12

BLOCK PLACEMENT WITHIN A PAGE NODEWednesday, September 19, 12

BLOCK REFERENCES ALONG SIDE OTHER FIELDSWednesday, September 19, 12

Block reference fields


Text fields


BLOCK REFERENCES ON THE PAGE FORMWednesday, September 19, 12

BLOCK REFERENCES ON THE PAGE FORMWednesday, September 19, 12

BLOCK REFERENCES COMBINED WITH CONTEXTWednesday, September 19, 12

Block Reference fields


Context


BLOCK CREATION VS

BLOCK PLACEMENT


USER GENERATED BLOCKS• Node-like blocks

• Fields

• Templates

• Listing blocks

• User-defined filters

• Pre-defined styles


USER-GENERATED BLOCKSWednesday, September 19, 12




BEANS(BLOCK ENTITIES)


BLOCK ENTITIES• Block types

• Fieldable

• Simple data storage for settings

• Non-admin permissions

• Data entry is familiar to users




Input form for a listing bean. Explain how non-field beans work.



VIEW MODES• Previously called “Build modes”

• Provides multiple display options

• Out of the box

• Full content

• Teaser

• RSS


NAMED STYLESBlock TeaserRelated Items


EDITORIAL LISTINGS• Hand-selected listings of nodes

• Multiple Node Reference field

• View mode set in the Node Reference field settings

• Additional fields

• More link, Header text, etc.


DATA VISUALIZATIONS


LIBRARIES• jqPlot

http://jqplot.com/

• The Jithttp://thejit.org/

• High Chartshttp://highcharts.com/


http://www.jqplot.com/




http://thejit.org/

http://thejit.org/

http://highcharts.com

http://highcharts.com

DataVis formatted

data

JSON


DataVis formatted

data

JSON

DataVisAdapter

Javascript


DataVis formatted

data

JSON

DrupalModule

PHP

DataVisAdapter

Javascript





REVISIONS VS DRAFTS


STANDARD WORKFLOW• Draft

• Needs Review

• Approved

• Published

• Unpublished


OTHER REQUIREMENTS• Workflow setup in code

• Exportable, API, etc.

• Multiple concurrent revisions

• Draft revisions subject to workflow

• Published revision is not editable


OPTIONS• Workflow

• Rules

• Workbench moderation


STATEFLOW


REVISIONS• New nodes start as Drafts

• Published revisions are not editable

• Editing a published node creates a new draft revision

• Publishing a revision archives the current



API FIRST• 100% implementable from code

• State Machine

• Customize by extending

• Workflow

• States

• Events


LARGE SCALE DRUPAL - CONTENT STAGING INITIATIVEWednesday, September 19, 12

ITERATING


POST-LAUNCH ADDITIONS• Bean usage report

• Node Bundles

• Event Calendars

• Group Privacy

• Automatic Sitemap

• Improved Media Library


RESOURCES• Bean

http://drupal.org/project/bean

• OG Taskshttp://drupal.org/project/og_tasks

• DataViz Javascript Adaptershttp://github.com/treehouseagency/dataviz-adapters

• Data Visualization API for Drupalhttp://drupal.org/project/data_visualization


http://drupal.org/project/og_tasks

http://drupal.org/project/og_tasks

http://github.com/treehouseagency/dataviz-adapters

http://github.com/treehouseagency/dataviz-adapters

http://drupal.org/sandbox/LSU_JBob/1299606

http://drupal.org/sandbox/LSU_JBob/1299606

RESOURCES (CONT.)• State Machine

http://drupal.org/project/state_machine

• Content Staging Initiativehttp://groups.drupal.org/large-scale-drupal-lsd-projects-and-plans/content-staging




http://groups.drupal.org/large-scale-drupal-lsd-projects-and-plans/content-staging




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Director of Engineering

ROGER LÓPEZ

QUESTIONS?


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phase2technology.com@phase2tech


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Documents

THE LEADER IN DRUPAL PLATFORM DESIGN AND …commons.esipfed.org/sites/default/files/Energy.gov (2012-09-19).pdfDRUPAL 7 • January 5, 2011 Drupal 7 released • April 8, 2011 Energy.gov