The document discusses the top five non-obvious Drupal modules presented by Russ Bomhof and Geoff Hing during a meeting of the Chicagoland Library Drupal Group. These modules include Nodequeue, Module Grants, Menu Block Split, Views Accordion, and Pathauto with a custom token, each serving specific needs for web development and content management. The presentation emphasizes the importance of strategic planning for website functionality rather than solely relying on maintenance methods or personnel skills.

1. Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules Presented by: Russ Bomhof & Geoff Hing Chicagoland Library Drupal Group December 7, 2009

2. About CRL Consortium of 250+ North American Universities and Colleges Primary Resources for faculty and students Cooperative Acquisition and preservation of international resources for research and teaching Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

3. CRL Then and Now VBScript ASP / MS Access DB Static HTML w/ Dreamweaver Templates Drupal 6!

4. Too often, web site owners allow their maintenance methods and their personnel skills to drive decisions about how the web site works. That's completely backwards. You should first figure out how you want your web site to work, then employ solutions/people/skills to make that happen. - Scott Crevier on the uwebd mailing list Things We Learned

5. As far as we know, there is no module that will force a team to communicate and collaborate. Things We Learned

6. There’s more than one way… Photo by Karamellzucker via Flickr Things We Learned

7. Obvious Views Content Construction Kit (CCK) Panels Node Import Workflow Drush Google Analytics Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

8. Non-Obvious Nodequeue Module Grants Menu Block Split Views Accordion Pathauto + Custom Token Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

9. So what news items did you want on the front page? We need to have the 3 most recent news and events, but not the one about the meeting. Oh, and that event is too old. Oh, make sure to add ... Ummmm. Right. Just send me that list in e-mail.

10. 1. Nodequeue http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

11. By the way, I need you to build this huge new section of the site from a bunch of incoherently named Word documents, e-mails, and spreadsheets. Ok. When does this need to be done? If you could get this done by the end of the day, that would be great. Oh, and it will need to be approved before it gets published.

12. Rapid content development Review and collaboration vs .

13. 2. Module Grants http://drupal.org/project/module_grants Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

14. Or, use Deploy From the amazing demo of the Deploy module, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PjwT0HWHxw

15. What module should I use for menus? Well, there’s Menu Block, or Nice Menus. Submenu Tree, … Category, Menu HTML, Menuwriter, … Menu Firstchild, Multiple Node Menu, ...

16. 3. Menu Block Split http://drupal.org/project/menu_block_split Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

17. We need our Topic Guide links to open and close like the E-Collections, web specialist. No problem. What content would you like to use? It should open and close.

23. 4. Views Accordion http://drupal.org/project/views_accordion Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

24. Where should that page go in the menu? Home » Archiving & Preservation » Current Projects & Initiatives » Shared Print Archive Proposal Uhh. Make sure you wipe those breadcrumbs off your chin.

25. Old and busted: http://www-old.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=3&l2=55

26. 5. Pathauto + Custom Token http://drupal.org/project/pathauto Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

27. $replacement = ''; if ($node) { $values = array(); // Try to get the menu data. $mlid = db_result(db_query("SELECT mlid FROM {menu_links} WHERE link_path = '%s'", 'node/'. $node->nid)); // Now get the menu related information. if (!empty($mlid) || !empty($node->menu['mlid']) || !empty($node->menu['plid'])) { $menu_link = menu_link_load($mlid); $menus = menu_get_menus(); $menu = isset($menus[$menu_link['menu_name']]) ? $menus[$menu_link['menu_name']] : ''; $trail_raw = _menu_titles($menu_link, $node->nid); $trail = array(); foreach ($trail_raw as $title) { $trail[] = check_plain($title); } $values['menupath-raw'] = implode('/', $trail_raw); } else { $values['menupath-raw'] = ''; $values['menu-link-title'] = ''; $values['menu-link-title-raw'] = ''; } $replacement = $values['menupath-raw']; // Start with the default ['menupath-raw'] $replacement = str_replace('Collaborations/Area Studies', 'Area Studies', $replacement); $replacement = str_replace('Collaborations/GRN', 'GRN', $replacement); $replacement = str_replace('Collaborations/Collaborative Digitization', 'Collaborative Digitization', $replacement); } return $replacement;

28. /** * Implementation of hook_token_list() . */ function crl_helpers_token_list($type = 'all') { if ($type == 'global' || $type == 'all') { // We don't implement any global tokens yet. } if ($type == 'node' || $type == 'all') { // Node tokens here $tokens['node']['crl-menupath-raw'] = t('A customized version of the [menupath-raw] token for the CRL menus that puts certain items (e.g. GRN) at the top level.'); } return $tokens; } /** * Implementation of hook_token_values() . */ function crl_helpers_token_values($type, $object = NULL) { // Very similar to code in previous slide // … } Alternately, write a custom module

29. Thanks! Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules Russ Bomhof – [email_address] Geoff Hing – [email_address] www.crl.edu