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2007.02.11 The Dr G Book:An Intro to Drupal

The DrThe DrG Book:G Book:

An Intro to DrupalAn Intro to Drupal(DrG: Drupal Users Group - users, not

developers)

This is an introduction to Drupal for site maintainersand beginning users; for people without any coder/programmer/ developer background.

Originally developed by Greg Beuthin, withsubsequent edits from: [?]


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Version History / CC LicenseVersion History

2007.02.11 - Original draft by

Greg Beuthin

[email protected]

Creative Commons License

The text and images are licensed

under the Creative Commons

Attribution-Share Alike 2.5License

Attribution: Any derivative work

must contain Originally developed

by Greg Beuthin


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Menu path conventions The location/ path of many configuration settings are

described in

Nested menus are shown with a vertical line

The following items - after a colon (:) show whats on a

page of the selected menu A specific tabbed item is shown with [square brackets]

Items within a closed page view use a : @

Items within a normal page view use a :


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Menu example Simple menu path:


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Menu example: expandable Menu path w/

expandable item:


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Menu example: tab Menu path with tab

item:


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Register Register yourself on

the Drupal site

Check email for logininfo

Login


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G Book:An Intro to Drupal

Your profileFirst things first

Look for Edit tab

Change your password

to something youll

remember


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SafeguardingWe recommend you add a new admin user that is

not the the root admin user (I.e. not user #1)

Add new user

Give new user pwd youll remember

Log out and log in as this new user


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Quick look around Navigation menu

Main column - the content area

Sidebars

Top: Site name, slogan, and mission

Bottom: Footer


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Quick look around II

Navigation Menu

Primary Links - by theme

Primary linksIn sidebar

Main content windowFooter

Site Name

Mission


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Basic site settings Site name, slogan and mission

Site email (for admin purposes)

Site logo


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More site settingsGeneral settings

Test and set clean

URLS

Custom homepage (ifyou want custom

splash page)


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Looking at Themes Themes list -

Configure global settingsvs theme-specific

Display options - enableor disable themes forindividual users to select

Display post information -displays author,timestamp, etc


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Briefly: Users, Roles and

PermissionsAccess control

Permissions are set here

Roles

Permissions are grouped byroles

User profiles

- and selectEdit for user

Admins can assign a user one ormore roles


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Recommended modules

Path

Upload

Statistics

TinyMCE* (others?)


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Process for installing modules Download / copy modules from

http://drupal.org/project/Modules to your

Drupal /modules directory

Turn on modules

Give permissions to appropriate roles


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Creating contentSelect content type

Page

Story

Book page

Blog Other common types: event; podcast;

image;


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Typical content options Comment settings

URL Path settings

File attachments

Authoring information

Publishing options

Title

Body (with

WYSIWYG* editor)

Input formats / filters

Log message

Menu settings


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Content: WYSIWYG Editor Typically, TinyMCE

Disable rich text to turn

off Can insert images and

links

Site wide editor settings

- select a user

role to edit


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Content: Input formatsFilters out unwanted

HTML

Typical options: Filtered HTML

PHP Code

Full HTML

Settings


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Content: Comment and Menu

SettingsMenu Settings

Can only add this page as

a new menu item into anexisting menu; cant

create a new menu

Comment Settings

Use node-specific

comment settings tooverride site-wide

Read only useful to

keep old comments


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Content: URL Path Settings Used to create natural language URL paths

www.mysite.org/about

vs

www.mysite.org/node/165

Full settings:


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Content: File Attachments Files must be attached while still on page.

Page will refresh, showing:

Delete

List

Path URL

Uncheck list if inserting image File upload limits are set here:


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Content: Authoring Information Authors name

Date / timestamp

Editable if you are a admin

Authoring / timestamp display on/off here:


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Content: Publishing options Published - Visible (according to access control

rules)

In moderation queue - Awaiting moderation (ifmoderation is activated)

Promoted to front page - Added to river of news

blog list

Sticky at top of lists

Create new revision


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More on content Full content list is available here:

Can filter content by status, type, category

Can apply limited actions to groups of posts

(e.g. delete, etc)


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An Intro to Drupal

Customizing block (sidebars) Blocks -

Visual display of page areas

Enabled turns block on or off

Weight and placement determines location

More options in configure

Creating custom blocks


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Customizing menus Menus -

Default: Navigation, andPrimary links

Ordering menus / items -Edit and select orderwithin hierarchical list

Displaying menus Every menu gets own block(see customizing blocks)

Expanded / collapsed


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Customizing menus II Menu configuration

Add new menu

(container) Add new menu items

(single links)

Any new menu adds

subsequent block


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File upload settings Turn on "upload" module

Give roles access control

Configure settings

Max. file upload size - for gen users, and admins


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Suggested additions to guide How to enable/ disable public registration

Documents

Drupal User Guide