This document discusses Stanford's growing use of Drupal for websites. It notes that most Stanford schools now use Drupal, including the law school. It then discusses the law school's implementation of Drupal, including migrating their main website to Drupal in 2012. It also discusses ongoing maintenance, development needs, and improvements to the user experience since the launch.

1. WE ARE ON DRUPAL! NOW WHAT?
IRINA.ZAKS@STANFORD.EDU
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2. Webscape @ Stanford in 2012
 Most school sites are on Drupal
 Graduate School of Business
 Stanford Law School
 Stanford University Libraries
 School of Engineering
 School of Earth Sciences
 School of Education
 Office of Registrar
 Rapid growth of Drupal users (= Drupal editors)
 Users include more and more faculty and students
 Stanford ITS / Web Services provide one-click Drupal
install and sites.stanford.edu
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3. Drupal @ SLS
 Drupal was first accepted by SLS in 2009
 Sites as of 2010
 Admitted Students
 Reunion Classbook
 SLS Navigator, Curriculum & Career Guide,
https://slsnavigator.law.stanford.edu/
 New sites
 Main school site - Law.stanford.edu
 Office of Facilities – custom forms Forms.law.stanford.edu
 Faculty Research - http://globalclassactions.stanford.edu/
 Other sites in development
 Student journals - http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/
 Conference papers library
 Considering COD distribution for conferences
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4. Drupal = Efficiency :: Do More with Less
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5. Law.stanford.edu on Drupal
 Migration completed in summer of 2012
 Preserved feel and look of existing site
 Preserved functionality from the old CMS
 Events workflow
 Integration of social media
 20K nodes
 Information organized in 23 Content types
 Over 50 views and over 100 template files
 New: Feeds to import and auto update course information
 Concern: How will SLS staff respond to new
responsibility of content management?
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6. Maintenance Development
Wishlist
 Hosted on law school  New Features
server  Responsive theming
 Biblio module for library
 Prod/stage/dev with
automated updates via  Discussing upgrade to
script D7 or D8
 Security updates
 Code maintenance / git
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7. 4 months after launch
 User training (~ 160 Individual and ~25 group accounts )
 Defining user roles (20 user roles now)
 Giving more permissions
 Improving user experience (customized admin views for each role
on dashboard)
 User notifications using mass contact module
 Improving workflows
 Content cleanup
 404 errors analysis using Google Webmasters Error log
 Apache redirects
 Performance (varnish, etc.)
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8. User Management
 Individual accounts
 Created automatically via Webauth standard
Stanford login module
 Events management
 Bio updates
 Group accounts (aka local Drupal accounts)
 Created by webteam
 Organizations pages
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9. /User/ page is prime real estate
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10. UX improvements: Dashboard = /user
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11. Login page for webauth and local accounts
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12. UX improvements: Dashboard = /user
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13. “All Content” bulk operations view with variety of
filters for Super Admin
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14. Custom views for different Roles
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15. Color coded buttons for standard Rubik
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16. Code snippets to share A view used as
A view used as
an exposed
an exposed
 Admin theme for /user page filter
filter
 Use a view as a filter for another view
View with Filters
View with Filters
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17. Problems to solve – menu links
 Make links to pages with restricted access
visible in menus
User with access User with no access
Menu
Menu
Text block
Text block
used as
used as
menu
menu
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18. Problems to solve – blocks management
 Content type to emulate blocks with better
management schema
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19. SLS Navigator
 https://slsnavigator.law.stanford.edu/
 Curriculum & Career Guide
 Marriage of faculty domain knowledge and advanced
web technology
 Shows relevancy of an item (course, clinic, or resource)
for selected carrier path
 Imports course information about all courses in the
University from Registrar’s office into local Drupal
installation
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20. List courses and clinics for a path
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21. Course information in context of career path
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22. Stanford Import Course Module
 Result of year long project and ongoing
collaboration between SLS and Registrar’s
office
 Source of info
http://explorecourses.stanford.edu
 Eliminates duplication of data entry by importing
all course information from a single source to all
systems
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23. Consistent Information about LAW Courses
 SLSNavigator - Course Relevance to a career
path (Office of Career Services)
 Lawreg.stanford.edu - Course schedules (Office
of Registrar)
 Course evaluations @ Law.stanford.edu (Office
of Student Affairs and faculty Support,
University Evaluations system)
 Courses @ Law.stanford.edu – information for
prospective students and general public
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24. Stanford Drupal Camp – April 5-6
https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/
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25. Thank
You
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