Simplifying End-user Drupal 7 Content Administration

Simplifying End-user Drupal 7 Content Administration Presented by Aidan FosterFOSTER INTERACTIVE afoster@fosterinteractive.comWeb Development + Design Linked In: ca.linkedin.com/in/aidanfoster Twitter :@ﬁnteractive

AIDAN FOSTER • I’ve Run a Web Shop for 9 years • Been doing “the Drupal” since 5.12 (that’s 4 human years) • Come from a planning / project management side of things • Now learning themeing, development, and responsive design

DRUPAL 5

DRUPAL 6

CONTENTEDITORFUNCTIONS

BAD MOJO FROM EDITOR USERS

MINE FIELDFORCONTENTEDITORFUNCTIONS

WORDPRESS 3.2

DRUPAL 7 ADMIN

LEARN FROM - ADOBE CQ5 http://www.day.com/day/en/products/ web_content_management.html

HOW DO WE GET FROM D7TO SOMETHING MORE LIKE C5?

THINK ABOUT EDITOR USABILITY• Conventions are your Friends• Omit needless words• 20% of tasks are done 80% of time (focus on this stuff - everything else should be hidden away)

CASE STUDY - OLYMPUSPACIFIC.COM • People are important • Videos are important • Content gets stale fast

OLYMPUS EDITORS 60% - News & EventsTASKS 25% - Videos & Galleries 10% - Remove Outdated Info 5% - Other

TASK BASED INTERFACE CREATED IN VIEWS(AND AN OCEAN OF MODULES)

ADMIN DEMO

DASHBOARD MODULE ORCUSTOM SEVEN SUB-THEME

DASHBOARD MODULE• HAS SOME BUGS! (Needs this patch - http://drupal.org/node/936798)• Limited in scope - Great for smaller sites (no tabs)

CUSTOM SUB THEMEColumn 1st Column 2nd minor CSS to hide Content Bottom confusing module text & seven’s pretty buttons Added 3 Regions styles

QUICKBAR MODULECreate a Menu for the Content Editor Role (disable admin menu for then) Assign it to Content Editor Role

COMPLEX NODE FORMS “Slide” Content Type(Fields are themed into slides on homepage)

ADD FIELD GROUP

NODE FORM COLUMNS

NODE FORM SETTINGS

VIEWS BY TASK• Every Tab has “Recently Edited” at top• Every Block has “Add <content type>” above• Make the Content Editor View as similar to the front end as possible

DRAGGABLE VIEWS• Draggable Views is a good option for structured content like a team page

PHOTO GALLERIES• Not Practical to show all thumbnails so we show 5 to mimic the front end (Extra are just hidden with CSS3)• Clicking thumbnails opens lightbox (Just like front end)

VIDEOS VIEWVideo player is functional for quick review of content

WORK BENCH MODERATIONNode gets fancy moderate tabs to allow viewing an unpublished draft(while older version remains live)All unpublished content appears in admin view

FEATURES MODULE Fields + Content Types Exported as Views Modules Module Files (can be version controlled) Permissions Conﬁg Settings(In Drupal Database)

FIND WHERE EDITOR’S 80% TIME GOES TO 20% OF TASKSORGANIZE STRUCTURE BY TASK REPLICATE HOW CONTENT IS PRESENTED ON FRONT END

WHAT’S NEXT?• Creating a set of rules to email content editors when pages get 6 months old.• Media 2.x - Stable... Possibly Switch?• Implementing WYSIWYG enhancements that Andrew Mallis outlined in his presentation (Very well documented if you missed it) http://bit.ly/ideograph-wysiwyg

QUESTIONS?• Slides are posted on fosterinteractive.com/articles/d7-admin

Simplifying End-user Drupal 7 Content Administration

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