Building a Drupal-driven Intranet

Building a Drupal-driven Intranet Karen A. Coombs

Our Old Intranet

Functional Requirements ✤ Flexible, Adaptable System ✤ Content easily editable by all ✤ Selective dissemination of information ✤ Replace many existing tools ✤ Wikis, internal blogs, listservs, some ﬁle shares ✤ Unify Authentication ✤ Able to incorporate external content

Drupal for Library Intranets ✤ Lots of modules to support our internal content ✤ Event ✤ Signup ✤ Image ✤ Web Forms ✤ Use CCK, Views for Custom Content Types ✤ Taxonomy to subdivide information ✤ Custom Feeds

Forms for Collecting Information

Events

Fund Codes

Committee News

Feeds from other sites

Lessons Learned ✤ Analyzing current content and desired new content key ✤ Create group to oversee implementation helps with buy-in ✤ Training for staff critical ✤ Choosing between scaling back or buggy functionality difﬁcult ✤ Have to spend lots of time with groups planning pages

Building a Drupal-driven Intranet

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