Drupal 7 for Government Case Study: Presentation at DrupalCamp Montreal 2012
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BuyAndSell.gc.ca is the Government of Canada's procurement information portal. It includes information for businesses and government employees about doing business with government departments. In 2012, we undertook a project to upgrade the site to Drupal 7. The site has yet to be publicly launched. This case study will include topics such as Migrating content from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 Using entities to model data Customing Search API Setting up a testing framework Using base themes, Features, and distributions
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Drupal 7 for Government Case Study: Presentation at DrupalCamp Montreal 2012
- 1. DRUPAL 7 FOR GOVERNMENT: CASE STUDY
- 3. Business Problem: • Apply the new government look and feel • Add open data features (search!) • Make the site more accessible (WCAG)
- 5. Who is the Site For? • Businesses who want to do business with the government • Government employees who need to buy goods + services
- 6. What did we Do? • Upgrade the site to Drupal 7 • Migrate the content from D6 to D7 • Set up custom entities to store contract data • Search API customizations • Set up a testing framework • Extended the government base theme
- 7. Site Upgrade • Reduced the number of modules in use • Content migration (meta tags, taxonomy, special fields) • Testing suite to find any content change in the site upgrade
- 8. Testing Framework Google Refine Jenkins &
- 9. Search Integration of Search API with custom entity types
- 12. Custom Import Script • Import contract data from CSV into custom entity types • Re-index of site for search
- 13. Events Calendar
- 15. Common Look + Feel
- 16. Accessibility Requirements • WCAG Compliance • Colour contrast • Keyboard control of drop down menus/ slideshow • Adjustments to calendar HTML
- 17. Light Editor
- 18. Moderation • Used the Workbench module for content moderation
- 19. Development Environment • Jenkins to run testing suite • Separate environment to run multisite search • ApacheSolr
- 20. Modules We Used • Features • Panels • Context • Custom Breadcrumbs • Calendar/Date • i18n • Apache Solr • Entity API
- 21. Alex Dergachev @dergachev or @evolvingweb on Twitter QUESTIONS?