1. Build Custom Surveys and Forms
Natively in Drupal Gardens
Bryan House Linea Rowe
Sr. Director, Marketing Director, Product
Acquia Management
@bryanhouse Acquia
@linearowe

2. Upcoming Training Events - January 2011
http://training.acquia.com/events
January 21 January 28th
– Drupal in a Day, Toronto – Drupal in a Day, Montreal
– Drupal in a Day, Vancouver – Drupal in a Day, Calgary
– Drupal in a Day, Bulgaria January 29th
January 22 – Site Building with Drupal,
– Site Building with Drupal, Montreal
Toronto – Site Build with Drupal,
– Site Building with Drupal, Calgary
Vancouver
Register for Drupal Training in your area

3. Training @ DrupalCon:
Upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7
Conduct upgrades of sites, identify
pitfalls and gotchas
Learn methods and best practices for development
to ease upgrading to Drupal 7
Instructor Team:
– Erik Webb - Professional Services, The Inspector
– Jacob Singh - Engineer in Drupal Gardens, Mr. Media
– Joshua Brauer - Client Advisor, Dr. Deployment

4. Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-Service
Create site in seconds
ThemeBuilder
Rich media galleries
Site duplication
Hassle / worry free
OpenSaaS
Built on Drupal 7

5. Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-Service
Latest addition:
Integrated Webforms!

8. What Is A Webform?
Contact forms
Event registrations
Lead capture
Service requests
Customer surveys
Bug tracker
Application forms
Mailing list
and much more...

9. An Integrated Form Builder Is Better
Standalone form & survey tools fall short
Copy / paste / tweak HTML form code
Customize CSS
Send visitors away from your website
Multiple web tools to manage
Expensive
Result: Negative experience for
both form builders and site visitors

10. Webforms on Drupal Gardens
Powerful capabilities, integrated natively
Drag and drop form creation
Simple field property editing tool
Customize design and layout in ThemeBuilder
Automated spam blocking
Result: Faster form creation, improved response
rates, better visitor experience

11. Let’s build some
webforms

12. Extra Powerful Form Goodness
Drag and drop interface Style with ThemeBuilder
Single & multi-line text fields Role-based access to forms
Required & optional fields Custom confirmation pages
Email fields Page breaks
Drop down lists Automated spam blocking
Radio buttons Formatted content support
Check boxes Data analysis on fields
File upload fields Show forms as blocks
Fieldsets Conditional limits on # of
Hidden fields submissions

13. Under the Hood
Built on Webform, maintained by Quicksketch
Proven, battle-tested module used on tens of thousands of
sites
http://drupal.org/project/webform
Plus, Form Builder, Webform Alternative UI, Options
Element and UX Elements
http://drupal.org/project/form_builder
http://drupal.org/project/webform_alt_ui
http://drupal.org/project/options_element
http://drupal.org/project/ux_elements

14. What’s coming next:
Views on Gardens

15. Native webforms in an OpenSaaS platform
Move faster
Reduce complexity
Improve your visitor experience
Increase response rates

16. OpenSaaS freedom:
you own the data

17. OpenSaaS freedom:
you own the content

18. OpenSaaS freedom:
you own the users

19. OpenSaaS freedom:
you own the code!

20. the business
value you
demand.
the freedom
you need.

21. Drupal Gardens: Drupal-as-a-Service
Simple to use
Turnkey deployment
Hassle / worry free
OpenSaaS
Enterprise microsites
now with Webforms!