This document describes OpenAcaDept, a Drupal distribution for building academic department websites. It includes roles and permissions, user profiles, content types, taxonomy, and views. The distribution contains modules for projects, academic papers, events, blogs, and resources. It also discusses installation profiles, development status, challenges, and an invitation to join the development team.

1. OpenAcaDept – Drupal
distribution for building
academic departmental
websites
Vadim Mirgorod
@dealancer
dealancer@gmail.com
http://vmirgorod.name

2. Gold Sponsor of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

3. Silver Sponsors of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

4. What is Drupal distribution?

Product

Framework

Open source project

5. What are main parts of Drupal
distribution?

Drupal

Drupal modules

Installation profile

Features

Custom modules and themes

Libraries

6. Why to use installation profile?

Installation wizard

Updates

Database

Development

Security

7. What are inside OpenAcaDept?
 Roles and permissions
 User profiles
 Content types
 Taxonomy
 Views, Contexts, Panels, Display suites
 front page, menus, breadcrumbs, URLs

8. Roles

Department staff

Alumnus

Student

Content editor

Content creator

9. User registration
 User fills fields that are common to all
roles
 User selects role he want to be
assigned
 User accepts terms and conditions
 User role is confirmed/declined by site
admin/editors.

10. User registration page

11. User profile

Each user have profile and url
associated with it

Users can edit own profiles

Profile fields depend on user
role

12. Faculty/Staff profile

13. Content types

Project

Academic paper

Event

Blog entry

Resource

14. Project

15. Academic paper

16. Event

17. Blog entry

18. Resource

19. References
Auth
or of
node
User
Academic Project
Paper
User
s

20. Taxonomy: vocabularies
Profile Project
 Academic Degrees  Customers
 Courses  Grants
 Positions  Research Topics
 Research Topics
Academic Paper
 Staff Roles
 Research Topics
 Specialties
 Scientific Journals
 Student Groups
Event
Blog
 Tags
 Event Admissions
Resource  Event Places
 Resource Categories  Event Audience
 Tags

21. Front page

22. Default menu structure

23. Views pages

People: Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni

Blog

Projects

Academic Papers

Events

Resources

24. Faculty/Staff page

25. Other features

Personal contact forms

Search

CAPTCHA on registration and comments

Mollom - antispam filter

26. Used modules
 Date  Taxonomy Manager
 Email  Superfish
 Link  Mollom
 References  Captcha
 Field Permissions  Terms of Use
 Node access user reference  Pathauto
 Node access node reference  Token
 Views  Chaos Tools
 Panels  Libraries
 Context  Administration Menu
 Display Suite  Backup and Migrate
 Realname  Advanced Help
 Apply For a Role  Devel

27. Development status
What is done? What are working on?

Design 
Installation profile

Configuration 
Custom modules

Little CSS 
Theming

Internationalization

28. Challenges

Profile translation

Hide fields depending on role of user which is
edited

Change order of the fields/tabs added to the
user edit form by other modules

Features

29. Join our development team!
We will be happy yo invite you to our team if you are
 Module Developer
 Graphic Designer
 Beta Tester
 Translator

30. Thanks!
Questions?
Feedback
Vadim Mirgorod
dealancer@gmail.com
@dealancer
http://vmirgorod.name