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Build an Event Calendar in Drupal
This document serves as a step-by-step guide for building an event listing site using Drupal, aimed at individuals new to Drupal or wanting to create an event calendar. It outlines the process of specification writing, site building, and module selection, along with examples of event sites. The document also discusses content structure, user permissions, and training opportunities available through Acquia.
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Build an Event Calendar in Drupal
- 1. Site building step-by-step BUILDAN EVENT LISTING
- 2. About me • “heather”on Drupal.org • @learningdrupal • @hjames • Manager of Learning Services at Acquia • training.acquia.com - invest in your skills!
- 3. Who this isfor • New to Drupal? • Want to build an event calendar? • Want to know how to extend Drupal? • Learn site building essentials
- 4. What we’ll do •Get inspired looking at examples • Write our specification • Build our event calendar • Review list of modules used • Find out where to learn more!
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- 6. kilkennyevents.ie - wordpresssite http://kilkennyevents.ie a wordpress site
- 7. Two modes Full Teaser
- 8. Event submission • Anonymous submission • Submitter details • Event details • Image upload
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- 10. “Poster view” janepickens.com/coming-attractions
- 11. Calendar view janepickens.com/coming-attractions
- 12. Full event page Title & date Image Description Off-site links
- 13. Etkinlik Takvim etkinliktakvimi.org
- 14. Variety of navigation Month navigation etkinliktakvimi.org By category Todayʼs events
- 15. Browse by date imamuseum.org- drupal
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- 20. Depends on needs •Frequency of events? • Multiple days? • Images for events? • Who is submitting events?
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- 24. Content display • Fullpage • Teaser mode in Venue listing page • Table showing titles and images
- 25. Really local events •Logged in users can submit events • Associate events with a specific venue • Show listing of event “teasers” on one page • Filter by venue • Show mini-calendar in block • Display full event
- 26. Starting out ofthe box A basic content type
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- 29. Structure > Contenttypes > Add content type
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- 38. Improvements • Defaults: Nocomments, no menu • Add a date field • Add a related venue field
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- 40. Structure > Contenttypes > Edit “event”
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- 54. Improvements • Move dateup in form • Pop-up selection
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- 69. Test! Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) By suzettesuzette flickr.com/photos/suzettesuzette/6864436698/
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- 71. Next • Add relatedlinks • Add related venue • Is a field required? Why? • OK in unstructured “body” text field?
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- 80. Next • Related venue •Select from limited options • Internal content, not external links • Why Drupal manage? • Renaming venues • Change of URL path • Adding new venue • Removing venues
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- 82. Related venue contenttype? • Defaults: • No comments. • No adding to main menu. • No author and date info. • Not promoted to front page. • Fields: • Title and body.
- 83. Better: Vocabulary • Vocabulary:Venue • Description • Terms: Controlled by administrator • Bonus: RSS feed per venue, easy to navigate.
- 84. Structure > Taxonomy> Add
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- 88. Add as afield • Add field • Set global defaults • Set content-type specific defaults • Arrange field • Check display
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- 96. What’s next? • Whocan create events? • Test with bulk creation of content • Create listings • Listing all events • Filter by venue • Sortable table • Mini month in sidebar
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- 125. Improvements • Adjust remainingfields - consistent • What classes are needed? • Add CSS to style new markup
- 129. Improvements • Add CSSstyling to your theme. • In this case we’re using “Bartik” core theme. This would require making a sub-theme. • Don’t edit a core theme.
- 130. Who can addevents? Content editing
- 131. Who can editevents? • All users? • Authenticated users? • Only administrators? • How do people become “authenticated”?
- 132. People > Permissions> Role
- 133. People > Permissions> “Node”
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- 137. Improvement • Link inmain menu + Add an event
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- 141. Test! Not logged in Logged in
- 142. Improvements • Should itemsbe published automatically? • Should we make an approval queue? • Use Views Bulk Operations • Test with real content editors and REAL content.
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- 144. Developer module Configuration >Development > Generate content
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- 147. Content editing • Makesure a couple of events are in the same month. • Edit some titles so they fit with the content (if you’re testing with users).
- 148. Filter by venue Createlisting page
- 149. What do wehave now?
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- 160. Improvements • Default sortfor date • Sortable columns for Venue and date • Image first
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- 164. Improvement • Add filterto allow user to select one venue • Filter out past events for this listing
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- 188. Improvements? • “Share this”button. drupal.org/project/sharethis • “Bookmark” option. drupal.org/project/flag
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- 190. Training in May-June training.acquia.com/events
- 191. Site building -May & June Drupal in a Day Site Building Leuven, Belgium Vancouver, Canada Alexandria, VA Portland, OR Vancouver, Canada Cincinnati, OH Portland, OR Leuven, Belgium Cincinnati, OH Amherst, MA, Toronto, CA Geneva, Switzerland Amherst, MA, New York, NY Geneva, Switzerland Schaumburg, IL New York, NY Bordeaux, France Bordeaux, France Charlotte, NC Charlotte, NC Washington, DC Washington, DC Dallas, TX Dallas, TX San Francisco, CA Paris, France Paris, France Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada training.acquia.com/events
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- 193. j.mp/fullcalendar-course May 17th
- 194. Styling j.mp/calendar-theme
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- 196. Site building -May & June Drupal in a Day Site Building Leuven, Belgium Vancouver, Canada Alexandria, VA Portland, OR Vancouver, Canada Cincinnati, OH Portland, OR Leuven, Belgium Cincinnati, OH Amherst, MA, Toronto, CA Geneva, Switzerland Amherst, MA, New York, NY Geneva, Switzerland Schaumburg, IL New York, NY Bordeaux, France Bordeaux, France Charlotte, NC Charlotte, NC Washington, DC Washington, DC Dallas, TX Dallas, TX San Francisco, CA Paris, France Paris, France Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada training.acquia.com/events
- 197. What modules appeared? Cast& Credits
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- 202. What fields appearwhere drupal.org/project/ds
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- 204. Supporting cast • Token •Pathauto - Human friendly URLs • CTools - Magic for Views • Devel - Bulk creation of content for testing
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