commons for site administrators, part 2: how to customize your online community
DESCRIPTION
Drupal Commons makes it easy to customize your online community! In this webinar for Site Administrators, we’ll explore the key decisions you need to make about your community and discuss how to change site functionality to suit your community’s needs. We will discuss the steps to take in order to customize your Commons site and demonstrate various techniques to optimize the performance of your community site. For example, we will review how to customize the layout of landing pages in Commons. We will also show you how to edit who has the permissions to make edits to these types of pages. You will learn how to: - Add new modules, features, and roles - Control access and permissions to advanced functionality - Use Drupal Commons best practices to customize your online communityTRANSCRIPT
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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
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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 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
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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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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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