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Basics of Drupal for Researchers, part 3

In this workshop, we will cover image styles, users/roles, views, blocks, menus, and getting your site off Pantheon. We will also explore creating content types for people and documents, and using views to display and organize data. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your Drupal skills!

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Basics of Drupal for Researchers, part 3

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  1. Basics of Drupal for Researchers, part 3 Quinn Dombrowski, Research IT quinnd@berkeley.edu

  2. What this workshop will cover Today: • Image styles • Users / roles • Views • Blocks • Menus • Getting your site off Pantheon

  3. Reminder: Person content type Person • Name (title) • Biography (body) • Birth date (date) • Death date (date) • Image field • Key person

  4. Alexander Hamilton Biography Birth: 1/11/1755 Death: 7/12/1804 Image from Wikipedia Key person Example data: People • George Washington • Biography • Birth: 2/22/1732 • Death: 12/14/1799 • Image from Wikipedia • Key person Melancton Smith Birth: 5/7/1744 No image Death: 7/29/1798 Not a key person

  5. Reminder: Document content type • Title - automatic nodetitles • Quote (body) • Subject (node reference) • Source (node reference) • Recipient (node reference) • Date (date)

  6. Example data: Documents Create quotes: • by Alexander Hamilton, about George Washington, on 3/6/1800 • by Melancton Smith about George Washington, on 11/21/1790 • by Alexander Hamilton, about Alexander Hamilton, on 6/18/1803 • by George Washington about Alexander Hamilton, on 4/29/1789

  7. Introducing Views • Displaying data from multiple nodes together • Displaying data from nodes in other contexts (e.g. in the sidebar of another node) • Creating RSS feeds • Making bulk changes (e.g. if you’ve changed your Pathauto paths), using Views Bulk Operations • Getting your data out of Drupal, using Views Data Export

  8. Simple views via basic interface • Specifying type of content • Page vs. block • Adding Views-generated pages to menus Let’s create a view that provides a grid of all people

  9. Image styles Allows you to define automatic transformations to the images you upload to your site. Go to Configuration > Media > Image styles.

  10. Menus Drupal has a menu system that can accommodate both nodes and pages created by Views. Menus are presented as blocks. Menus can be configured at Structure > Menus.

  11. Expanding on simple views • Exposed filters • Exposed sort criteria • Grouping results • More sophisticated tables • Adding Views-generated pages to menus Let’s create a view that shows all quotes, grouped by subject

  12. Advanced Views settings • Contextual filters: only show quotes about the person you’re currently viewing Let’s create a block for quotes about the person you’re viewing

  13. Site migration Documented (to some extent) at: https://www.drupal.org/node/776864 • Commit changes, and set Pantheon connection mode to Git • Download code, file, database • Put the separately-downloaded “files” directory under sites/default

  14. Other Drupal resources BADCamp: https://2014.badcamp.net/ Palace of Fine Arts, SF, November 6-9 Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG): https://groups.drupal.org/berkeley 3rd Monday of the month (usually) Drupal consulting at D-Lab

  15. Future topics Any requests?

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