Drupal: Organizing Content for Multiple Audiences

Drupal: OrganizingContent for MultipleAudiences an iFactoryEd webinar

Who is iFactory?• Based in Boston• Interactive design and development company with over 20 years experience• A division of RDW Group, a full-service agency• Designers, strategic consultants, information architects, usability experts, developers• Higher ed profiles include: colleges & universities | public & private large & small | ivy league to community colleges undergraduate & graduate | Massachusetts to California

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What you’ll learn today:• Configuring options for audience selectors• Implementing different designs to distinguish areas of the site for each audience• Using the Field Permissions module to deliver fine-grained customization of content delivery

Your presenter Lisa Sawin Solutions Architect for iFactory

Tailor content &presentation• Can target users by gateways, altering content and/or design• Lots of ways to handle it• Drupal has tools to build all of these ideas

Audience gateways• Group content for a specific audience• Style content to demarcate it from areas of the site• Present content for a specific user type

Audience gatewayselectors• Simple list of links in a block• Javascript-enabled jump menu• Javascript-enabled sliding panel

Altering the look & feel• Simple section based on menu tree: use automatic body classes• More complex section: use Context module

Altering the content• Field Permissions for displaying individual fields for specific roles• Context module handles display of blocks on a per-role or per-section basis• Custom context conditions for block presentation based on page views

Tailor content &presentation• Can target users by gateways, altering content and/or design• Lots of ways to handle it• Drupal has tools to build all of these ideas

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