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X All the Things: Total Content Control
- 1. THE LEADER IN DRUPAL PLATFORM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Sunday, November 4, 12
- 2. X ALL THE THINGS TOTAL CONTENT CONTROL JOE TURGEON X TIM COSGROVE Sunday, November 4, 12
- 3. WHO THIS IS FOR • Developers • Project Owners • Multilingual Site Creators • Content Developers • Site Builders Sunday, November 4, 12
- 4. THE LEADER IN DRUPAL PLATFORM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Sunday, November 4, 12
- 5. JOE TURGEON Solutions Architect jturgeon@phase2technology.com @arithmetric TIM COSGROVE Software Architect tcosgrove@phase2technology.com @timcosgrove Sunday, November 4, 12
- 6. THE CLIENT Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 8. “BRAND Z” • Large multinational consumer products company • $9.7 billion in sales annually • Nearly $1 billion in online sales • Operates in about 150 countries, about 50 online • Sites in about 30 languages Sunday, November 4, 12
- 9. EXISTING WEB SOLUTION • Custom-written commerce engine • Also serves static content • No CMS of any kind • Non-commerce pages static HTML Sunday, November 4, 12
- 10. BRAND Z WANTS ALL THE THINGS! Sunday, November 4, 12
- 12. DRUPAL-BASED PUBLISHING PLATFORM • Multi-market • Multi-lingual • Multiple brands • Interfaces with existing ecommerce system Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 14. PLATFORM OBJECTIVES Sunday, November 4, 12
- 15. ALL THE CONTENT! • Subject to workflow • Able to be translated • Able to be saved to multiple revisions, including drafts Sunday, November 4, 12
- 19. BATCHED CONTENT MANAGEMENT • Preview whole groups of content updates together • Publish, unpublish, and manage the workflow state of whole groups of content en masse Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 21. FLEXIBLE LAYOUTS • Select different templates to use for the same content type • Allow users to define complex inputs for the output of structured content • Allow users to build basic templates themselves and to reuse them Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 23. CONSISTENT, INTUITIVE UI • CMS users with only basic training • CMS will be used worldwide Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 27. PLATFORM GOALS • Content layout is flexible • All content is translatable • Content is subject to workflow • The CMS UI is consistent and intuitive Sunday, November 4, 12
- 29. LAYOUT ALL THE THINGS! Sunday, November 4, 12
- 31. MULTIPLE LAYOUTS IN CONTENT • Layouts are independent of content type • Multiple layouts can be used in one content type • Editors can define own layouts in CMS Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 33. SOLUTION: TEMPLATE FIELD • Allows a single field to contain many pieces of data • Each template has HTML, optional CSS & JS • Can be in code, or DB; can be overridden • Because it’s a field, can be revisioned Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 39. OTHER BENEFITS • Allows node-specific layouts, even within one content type • Layouts can be shared across content types Sunday, November 4, 12
- 40. MULTIPLE LAYOUTS IN PAGES • Layout of a single content type may change significantly from node to node or even revision to revision • Layouts need to be attached to node for workflow, etc. Sunday, November 4, 12
- 41. CONTROL OVER BLOCKS • Content editors need to create blocks freely • Need to be able to place blocks as part of page content • Need to be able to embed blocks in other content Sunday, November 4, 12
- 42. SOLUTION: BLOCK REFERENCE • Insert blocks into nodes as field content • In combination with a content block solution, allows reusable block content to be laid out in arbitrary layouts Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 45. SOLUTION: EMBEDABBLES • Allows block content to be placed into rich text contexts • Effectively allows revisioning of block placement within that context Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 53. TRANSLATE ALL THE THINGS! Sunday, November 4, 12
- 55. ALL CONTENT IS TRANSLATABLE • Body content, block content, menu items, form labels, and any other visible text • Related translations grouped and accessible from the source node Sunday, November 4, 12
- 56. “SUBSCRIPTION” VS “LOCALIZATION” • Subscribed content adopts a specific piece of content from another language • Localized content begins as a copy from another language, but can be edited independently and diverge Sunday, November 4, 12
- 57. EACH TRANSLATION IS DISTINCT • Translations may not be literal • The version of content for a particular market/language should be managed separately from other markets/ languages Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 61. SOLUTION: CONTENT TRANSLATION + I18N Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 63. SOLUTION: CUSTOM EXTENSION FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS + UI ENHANCEMENTS Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 65. SOLUTION: DOMAIN Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 67. SOLUTION: DOMAIN CUSTOM EXTENSION Sunday, November 4, 12
- 68. POTENTIAL DRUPAL 8 IMPROVEMENTS • Integrate more functionality from i18n in core • Make entities translatable • Simplify UI for managing content translations Sunday, November 4, 12
- 70. REVISION ALL THE THINGS! Sunday, November 4, 12
- 71. REVISIONS? • More like “versions” • Keep old copies of content • Ideally, work on multiple versions of content at once Sunday, November 4, 12
- 72. WORKFLOW? • Drupal has “unpublished” and “published” • Add more states, like “approved” or “needs edits” • Control access to each of those states Sunday, November 4, 12
- 73. CORE DRUPAL REVISIONS • Only saves previous copies • Can’t edit two copies independently • No working drafts • Only applies to nodes • Only core ‘workflow’ states Sunday, November 4, 12
- 74. ALL THE THINGS? • Nodes • Menus • Block Content • Block Placement Sunday, November 4, 12
- 75. NODE ALL THE THINGS! • Can be translated • Drupal takes care of basic revisions • Basic workflow needs met Sunday, November 4, 12
- 76. MENUS • Drupal Menus are not strictly content • No publishing, unpublishing • Behavior can be unpredictable and confusing for content editors Sunday, November 4, 12
- 77. SOLUTION: MENU FIELD • Menu-like content as a field • Translatable, revisionable • Mirrors Drupal native menus • Flexible menu content - rich text Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 80. SOLUTION: NODEBLOCK Sunday, November 4, 12
- 81. SOLUTION: STATE FLOW • Highly configurable workflow solution • API-driven, developer-friendly Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 83. REVISION TAGGING • Label each revision • All content with that tag can be acted on • Preview site with different tags Sunday, November 4, 12
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- 88. POTENTIAL DRUPAL 8 IMPROVEMENTS • Entities Everywhere • Content Staging Intiative and Site Preview System Sunday, November 4, 12
- 89. LESSONS Sunday, November 4, 12
- 90. RESOURCES • Template Field http://drupal.org/project/template_field • Formatter Field http://drupal.org/project/formatter_field • Block Reference http://drupal.org/project/blockreference Sunday, November 4, 12
- 91. RESOURCES • Embeddables http://drupal.org/project/embeddable • i18n http://drupal.org/project/i18n • Domain http://drupal.org/project/domain Sunday, November 4, 12
- 92. RESOURCES • State Machine http://drupal.org/project/state_machine • Nodeblock http://drupal.org/project/nodeblock • Menu Field http://drupal.org/project/menu_field Sunday, November 4, 12
- 93. THANKS. Sunday, November 4, 12
- 94. QUESTIONS? JOE TURGEON TIM COSGROVE Solutions Architect Software Architect jturgeon@phase2technology.com tcosgrove@phase2technology.com @arithmetric @timcosgrove Sunday, November 4, 12
- 95. phase2technology.com @phase2tech Sunday, November 4, 12