Presentation from Drupal Camp Western Mass on how to build your site using Display Suite and Context.

1. Using Display Suite and Context to
build your Drupal Site
Files/Slides/Exports: http://wetmo.re/dcwma-mww
January 19, 2013
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

2. About Me
• Matt Wetmore
– Mattwetmore.com
– Currently work at ING U.S. in Windsor, CT
– Using Drupal for 3 years
– Twitter: @mwetmore
– Central CT Drupal Meetup Organizer
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

3. What are we going to cover?
• Display Suite
– View Modes, Layouts, Fields, DS Extras, Using Views with
Display Suite.
– Will demo everything we have time for.
• Context
– Conditions / Reactions
• Path, Taxonomy, Type, View / Block, Menu, Theme
– Context Plugins (List)
• Additional Modules to Extend Context
– New Google Analytics Context Condition
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

4. What is Display Suite?
• Display Suite allows you to position how your fields are
displayed on nodes, views, forms, etc. This can be done
without having to modify tons of template files.
• There are stable versions of Display Suite for Drupal 6&7
• Going to show some different examples then what is
presented in the Drupalize.me Display Suite videos. But
those videos are great for future training/info:
http://drupalize.me/series/display-suite-drupal-7
• Display Suite settings can be exported/imported
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

5. But what about Panels?
• There are tons of ways to build a Drupal site,
DS/Context is just one of those ways.
• You can also use Panels with Display Suite and
even Context, be sure to watch this excellent
presentation from MediaCurrent on the topic:
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/webinar-
drupal-modules-display-suite-context-views-panels
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

6. Display Suite: Demo 1
• Configuring View/Build Modes
• Configuring Views to use View/Build Modes
• Configuring Layouts
– Layout types available
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

7. Display Suite: Demo 2
• Configuring Display Fields
– Block Field
– Dynamic Field
– Custom Code Field
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

8. Display Suite: Demo 3
• Display Suite Extras!
– Configuring Field Templates
– Configuring Region to Block
– Configuring View Mode per Node
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

9. What is the Context module?
• Context Module != Panels Context
• Context allows you to define specific conditions
and your site can react to those conditions.
• Context has a stable D6 version and a Beta D7
Version
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

10. Context Module - Conditions
• Conditions available by Default:
– Context, Menu, Node Type, Taxonomy, Path, User
Role, User Page, Views.
– Different conditions allow you to use wildcards and ~
to exclude items.
– Writing Condition Plugins:
• http://wetmo.re/Y5Uv4r
• http://wetmo.re/WGUwFo
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

11. Context Module - Reactions
• Reactions available by Default:
– Blocks, Breadcrumbs, Menu, Theme
• Demo of using Conditions and Reactions
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

12. Context Module – Additional Modules
• Modules are available to extend context.
• Some of them are:
– Context Keywords
– Context Menu Block
– Context HTTP Headers
– Content GeoIP
– Domain Context
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

13. Context Module – Context_GA
• New Drupal Context Plugin : context_ga
• Extends Google Analytics Tokenizer to provide
conditions for GA cookie values.
– Needs Context, Token, GA Tokenizer, GA
• Create conditions by Source, Campaign, Medium,
Content, Term, # Times Visited
• Code available on github (GitHub URL)
• Quick Demo
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

14. Central CT Drupal Meetup
• ctdrupal.com
• The Central CT Drupal Meetup
meets the 3rd Tuesday every
month, 7pm-9pm
• Location: New Horizons
Training Center, Bloomfield, CT
• Future Free Training Saturdays
being planned.
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore

15. Resources
• Slides/Files/Info
– http://wetmo.re/dcwma-mww
• Display Suite on Drupalize.me
– http://bitly.com/bundles/mwetmore/3
• Context
– http://bitly.com/bundles/mwetmore/2
Matthew Wetmore
@mwetmore