The document discusses the design of a Drupal-based content management system for a large multinational consumer products company. Some key objectives of the system include allowing flexible content layouts, advanced content translation capabilities, and robust revisioning and workflow features. Multiple solutions are proposed that leverage Drupal extensions to achieve these objectives and provide editors a consistent and intuitive interface for managing large volumes of globally distributed content.
Shawn Mole presents a discussion at The Digital Innovation Summit about the changing landscape of digital experience and his role as director of experience at Phase2.
Webinar from Go Sportn President and Founder Ned Desmond as he explains why he chose to build his site on Drupal distribution OpenPublish, running on Acquia Managed Cloud. Bassmaster.com is the website for the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, or B.A.S.S., with more than a half-million members. Bassmaster.com is the digital home for many annual bass angler tournaments, where members connect, share results and talk about the sport of bass fishing.
Shawn Mole presents a discussion at The Digital Innovation Summit about the changing landscape of digital experience and his role as director of experience at Phase2.
Webinar from Go Sportn President and Founder Ned Desmond as he explains why he chose to build his site on Drupal distribution OpenPublish, running on Acquia Managed Cloud. Bassmaster.com is the website for the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, or B.A.S.S., with more than a half-million members. Bassmaster.com is the digital home for many annual bass angler tournaments, where members connect, share results and talk about the sport of bass fishing.
A FUTURE-FOCUSED DIGITAL PLATFORM WITH DRUPAL 8Phase2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCx0fx-FWSc
Breaking News: Al Jazeera Builds Future-focused Digital Platform with Drupal 8
Sep 28, 2016 at DrupalCon Dublin
This just in: Al Jazeera Media Network, a leading provider in news and media broadcasting, is investing in its future by building a global, multi-lingual, unified CMS platform to streamline the creation and personalized delivery of news on the newly released Drupal 8 platform. This story is still unfolding!
For a global media network like Al Jazeera, Drupal 8 provides the perfect base for internationalization, future growth, and flexibility. Al Jazeera required a platform that could unify several different content streams and support a complicated editorial workflow, allowing network wide collaboration and search.
In this talk, leaders from the Al Jazeera digital project will go “behind-the-scenes” of the network’s next generation publishing platform. Hear from the Al Jazeera Product Managers and Platform Experts about how the content needs driving the media business can map to the underpinnings of a unified publishing platform. We will explore the technical advantages of Drupal 8, as well as the digital strategy that informed the endeavor. You’ll learn:
● Why Al Jazeera Media Network decided to invest in Drupal 8 as an early adopter
● How to use Deploy, Multi-version, and Replication modules to support an enterprise content repository
● The implications of starting with Lightning as a base distribution
● How Al Jazeera Media Network transformed its editorial workflow with Drupal 8 tools
For anyone working in the digital publishing industry or considering using Drupal 8 for a platform, this session is a must-see!
The Future of Digital Storytelling - Phase2 TalkPhase2
Watch the full talk here: https://www.phase2technology.com/blog/the-future-of-digital-storytelling/
Mike Mangi, Director of Digital Strategy at Phase2, talks about the importance of evoking emotion in storytelling, and the evolution of our use of technology in our quest for ever-more immersive storytelling tools.
He discusses examples of how a story call be told in and across myriad devices from mobile, to wearables, to Augmented and Virtual Reality headsets, to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
He talks about the need for content and experience management systems capable of publishing multi-device, context-optimized content, and the potential to provide solutions with platforms like headless Drupal.
Drupal 8 for Enterprise: D8 in a Changing Digital LandscapePhase2
Check out our white paper on D8 for enterprise: http://phase.to/1i1G7Gg
Today's digital marketplace requires organizations to engage their audiences on the multitude of channels and devices where they consume content. Drupal 8 can be an effective tool for creating a streamlined, multi-channel experience for users, in addition to serving as an adaptive content engine for website platform builders. In this slideshow, we examine the value of Drupal 8 as a flexible content management system (CMS) and how businesses can use it for maximum benefit.
The Yes, No, and Maybe of "Can We Build That With Drupal?"Phase2
Over the last five years, Drupal has made a huge splash in the Government sector and has quickly become the open source CMS platform of choice. If you’re not already using Drupal, it’s likely that it’s come up as an option. It’s a powerful and flexible framework, and because of this the answer to the question ‘Can we build this with Drupal?’ is usually ‘Yes’. That said…your ‘yes’ should sometimes be ‘It depends’.
Understanding the reasons why government has taken interest in Drupal is key to understanding how and where it is best used. Drupal has core strengths that line up with key needs, but there are things it doesn’t do well. How do you make sure that you’re not asking Drupal to do too much? Conversely, even if Drupal is the best choice, how do you make sure your architecture is sound, your project plan is tight, and your business strategy is appropriate?
We’ll look at some case studies from various levels of government from federal to local, examine the challenges faced, and review lessons learned. If your project needs to stretch Drupal to its breaking point, how do you mitigate the technical, project management, and business impacts? How do you weigh the pros and cons of using Drupal when you are planning a project, and what are the key warning signs in an RFP that warn against it? And even when the needs of the client project line up cleanly with Drupal’s core strengths, how do you identify the risk areas when it seems like a match made in heaven?
Drupal is a powerful tool and can transform the work you do, but being educated as to its strengths and weaknesses protects you and your project, whether you are a contractor or contract officer, internal technology team or external developer.
David Spira presents on the importance of user testing and Empathy to deliver an effective product, specifically a contact management app for disaster relief that was later used during the Nepal earthquake in 2015.
Red Hat needed a new pattern library that would be flexible enough to integrate into our current Drupal 7 site, yet powerful enough to build future D7, D8 and other Red Hat branded sites. This pattern library would create a consistent, brand approved, look across all of our web properties, and become a common UI development platform for Designers, UX, Devs and Project managers.
In this case study we’ll explain our architectural approach to deliver dozens of tightly packaged components to Redhat.com and other web properties through a variety of distribution methods.
At Phase2, we do things a little differently when it comes to design. While many teams are stuck in the “design first, develop second, theme last” way of doing things, we link our multidisciplinary teams together by a common vehicle: design systems. Each piece of the system, including our prototyping tools, live within the platform, allowing us to integrate processes like creative design, prototyping, front-end methodology, and implementation. We call this “The New Design Workflow.”
This session will feature a panel of Phase2’s most experienced designers and front-end devs for an inside look at our best practices, tips and tricks. Plus, hear us weigh in how Drupal 8 will interface with your favorite front-end tools like PatternLab.
Drupal 8, Don’t Be Late (Enterprise Orgs, We’re Looking at You)Phase2
After building one of the first enterprise Drupal 8 platforms, we speak from experience when we say: if you are an enterprise organization, you should be seriously considering the move to Drupal 8. For many in the Drupal world, Drupal 8 is still viewed with apprehension. With this panel, we’re here to unveil the D8 mystery.
In the changing CMS landscape, enterprises have a lot to gain from the more decoupled, API-focused content repository that Drupal 8 is evolving toward. Drupal’s paradigm shift will vastly improve the way organizations ingest, store, publish, and distribute content through multiple channels. But is the investment worth it? For the enterprise, our answer is an enthusiastic yes.
In this session, discover:
How Drupal 8’s structure fundamentally changes the way organizations approach platform building
The impact of Drupal 8’s configuration management improvements
The benefits of integrated front-end tools and external libraries
The challenges enterprise organizations will face adopting Drupal 8 (and how to overcome them)
How other enterprise organizations are already harnessing the power of Drupal 8
How to get started!
Memorial Sloan Kettering: Adventures in Drupal 8Phase2
Memorial Sloan Kettering is preparing to launch two websites in Drupal 8. As one of the first organizations to migrate its Drupal 6 content management system onto an enterprise Drupal 8 platform, Memorial Sloan Kettering has learned first hand the major challenges and advantages of building in Drupal 8.
In this session, project members from MSK, Phase2, and Digitas will explore the decision to take the leap to Drupal 8 and the reality of building in D8 while it is still a beta. Get details on the brute force migration process, front-end integrations and wiring up with twig in practice, and community contributions to accelerate Drupal 8 in the process of a flagship redesign for one of the leaders in the healthcare space.
We’ll elaborate on the challenges we faced and strategies we used to build on Drupal 8 and how you can learn from them!
Finally, we’ll answer some of your most burning questions:
How did you accomplish moving an existing Drupal 6 site with 25,000 plus pages of content to Drupal 8 while redesigning at the same time?
Should other organizations consider building in Drupal 8?
What tools and best practices were used by developers/sys admins?
What contrib modules are being used?
How difficult was it for the team to learn Drupal 8?
What is being used for layout and webforms?What external libraries and APIs are being used?
A FUTURE-FOCUSED DIGITAL PLATFORM WITH DRUPAL 8Phase2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCx0fx-FWSc
Breaking News: Al Jazeera Builds Future-focused Digital Platform with Drupal 8
Sep 28, 2016 at DrupalCon Dublin
This just in: Al Jazeera Media Network, a leading provider in news and media broadcasting, is investing in its future by building a global, multi-lingual, unified CMS platform to streamline the creation and personalized delivery of news on the newly released Drupal 8 platform. This story is still unfolding!
For a global media network like Al Jazeera, Drupal 8 provides the perfect base for internationalization, future growth, and flexibility. Al Jazeera required a platform that could unify several different content streams and support a complicated editorial workflow, allowing network wide collaboration and search.
In this talk, leaders from the Al Jazeera digital project will go “behind-the-scenes” of the network’s next generation publishing platform. Hear from the Al Jazeera Product Managers and Platform Experts about how the content needs driving the media business can map to the underpinnings of a unified publishing platform. We will explore the technical advantages of Drupal 8, as well as the digital strategy that informed the endeavor. You’ll learn:
● Why Al Jazeera Media Network decided to invest in Drupal 8 as an early adopter
● How to use Deploy, Multi-version, and Replication modules to support an enterprise content repository
● The implications of starting with Lightning as a base distribution
● How Al Jazeera Media Network transformed its editorial workflow with Drupal 8 tools
For anyone working in the digital publishing industry or considering using Drupal 8 for a platform, this session is a must-see!
The Future of Digital Storytelling - Phase2 TalkPhase2
Watch the full talk here: https://www.phase2technology.com/blog/the-future-of-digital-storytelling/
Mike Mangi, Director of Digital Strategy at Phase2, talks about the importance of evoking emotion in storytelling, and the evolution of our use of technology in our quest for ever-more immersive storytelling tools.
He discusses examples of how a story call be told in and across myriad devices from mobile, to wearables, to Augmented and Virtual Reality headsets, to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
He talks about the need for content and experience management systems capable of publishing multi-device, context-optimized content, and the potential to provide solutions with platforms like headless Drupal.
Drupal 8 for Enterprise: D8 in a Changing Digital LandscapePhase2
Check out our white paper on D8 for enterprise: http://phase.to/1i1G7Gg
Today's digital marketplace requires organizations to engage their audiences on the multitude of channels and devices where they consume content. Drupal 8 can be an effective tool for creating a streamlined, multi-channel experience for users, in addition to serving as an adaptive content engine for website platform builders. In this slideshow, we examine the value of Drupal 8 as a flexible content management system (CMS) and how businesses can use it for maximum benefit.
The Yes, No, and Maybe of "Can We Build That With Drupal?"Phase2
Over the last five years, Drupal has made a huge splash in the Government sector and has quickly become the open source CMS platform of choice. If you’re not already using Drupal, it’s likely that it’s come up as an option. It’s a powerful and flexible framework, and because of this the answer to the question ‘Can we build this with Drupal?’ is usually ‘Yes’. That said…your ‘yes’ should sometimes be ‘It depends’.
Understanding the reasons why government has taken interest in Drupal is key to understanding how and where it is best used. Drupal has core strengths that line up with key needs, but there are things it doesn’t do well. How do you make sure that you’re not asking Drupal to do too much? Conversely, even if Drupal is the best choice, how do you make sure your architecture is sound, your project plan is tight, and your business strategy is appropriate?
We’ll look at some case studies from various levels of government from federal to local, examine the challenges faced, and review lessons learned. If your project needs to stretch Drupal to its breaking point, how do you mitigate the technical, project management, and business impacts? How do you weigh the pros and cons of using Drupal when you are planning a project, and what are the key warning signs in an RFP that warn against it? And even when the needs of the client project line up cleanly with Drupal’s core strengths, how do you identify the risk areas when it seems like a match made in heaven?
Drupal is a powerful tool and can transform the work you do, but being educated as to its strengths and weaknesses protects you and your project, whether you are a contractor or contract officer, internal technology team or external developer.
David Spira presents on the importance of user testing and Empathy to deliver an effective product, specifically a contact management app for disaster relief that was later used during the Nepal earthquake in 2015.
Red Hat needed a new pattern library that would be flexible enough to integrate into our current Drupal 7 site, yet powerful enough to build future D7, D8 and other Red Hat branded sites. This pattern library would create a consistent, brand approved, look across all of our web properties, and become a common UI development platform for Designers, UX, Devs and Project managers.
In this case study we’ll explain our architectural approach to deliver dozens of tightly packaged components to Redhat.com and other web properties through a variety of distribution methods.
At Phase2, we do things a little differently when it comes to design. While many teams are stuck in the “design first, develop second, theme last” way of doing things, we link our multidisciplinary teams together by a common vehicle: design systems. Each piece of the system, including our prototyping tools, live within the platform, allowing us to integrate processes like creative design, prototyping, front-end methodology, and implementation. We call this “The New Design Workflow.”
This session will feature a panel of Phase2’s most experienced designers and front-end devs for an inside look at our best practices, tips and tricks. Plus, hear us weigh in how Drupal 8 will interface with your favorite front-end tools like PatternLab.
Drupal 8, Don’t Be Late (Enterprise Orgs, We’re Looking at You)Phase2
After building one of the first enterprise Drupal 8 platforms, we speak from experience when we say: if you are an enterprise organization, you should be seriously considering the move to Drupal 8. For many in the Drupal world, Drupal 8 is still viewed with apprehension. With this panel, we’re here to unveil the D8 mystery.
In the changing CMS landscape, enterprises have a lot to gain from the more decoupled, API-focused content repository that Drupal 8 is evolving toward. Drupal’s paradigm shift will vastly improve the way organizations ingest, store, publish, and distribute content through multiple channels. But is the investment worth it? For the enterprise, our answer is an enthusiastic yes.
In this session, discover:
How Drupal 8’s structure fundamentally changes the way organizations approach platform building
The impact of Drupal 8’s configuration management improvements
The benefits of integrated front-end tools and external libraries
The challenges enterprise organizations will face adopting Drupal 8 (and how to overcome them)
How other enterprise organizations are already harnessing the power of Drupal 8
How to get started!
Memorial Sloan Kettering: Adventures in Drupal 8Phase2
Memorial Sloan Kettering is preparing to launch two websites in Drupal 8. As one of the first organizations to migrate its Drupal 6 content management system onto an enterprise Drupal 8 platform, Memorial Sloan Kettering has learned first hand the major challenges and advantages of building in Drupal 8.
In this session, project members from MSK, Phase2, and Digitas will explore the decision to take the leap to Drupal 8 and the reality of building in D8 while it is still a beta. Get details on the brute force migration process, front-end integrations and wiring up with twig in practice, and community contributions to accelerate Drupal 8 in the process of a flagship redesign for one of the leaders in the healthcare space.
We’ll elaborate on the challenges we faced and strategies we used to build on Drupal 8 and how you can learn from them!
Finally, we’ll answer some of your most burning questions:
How did you accomplish moving an existing Drupal 6 site with 25,000 plus pages of content to Drupal 8 while redesigning at the same time?
Should other organizations consider building in Drupal 8?
What tools and best practices were used by developers/sys admins?
What contrib modules are being used?
How difficult was it for the team to learn Drupal 8?
What is being used for layout and webforms?What external libraries and APIs are being used?
8. “BRAND Z”
• Large multinational consumer products company
• $9.7 billion in sales annually
• Nearly $1 billion in online sales
• Operates in about 150 countries, about 50 online
• Sites in about 30 languages
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9. EXISTING WEB SOLUTION
• Custom-written commerce engine
• Also serves static content
• No CMS of any kind
• Non-commerce pages static HTML
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10. BRAND Z WANTS
ALL THE THINGS!
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12. DRUPAL-BASED PUBLISHING PLATFORM
• Multi-market
• Multi-lingual
• Multiple brands
• Interfaces with existing ecommerce system
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19. BATCHED CONTENT MANAGEMENT
• Preview whole groups of content updates together
• Publish, unpublish, and manage the workflow state of
whole groups of content en masse
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21. FLEXIBLE LAYOUTS
• Select different templates to use for the same content type
• Allow users to define complex inputs for the output of
structured content
• Allow users to build basic templates themselves and to
reuse them
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27. PLATFORM GOALS
• Content layout is flexible
• All content is translatable
• Content is subject to workflow
• The CMS UI is consistent and intuitive
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31. MULTIPLE LAYOUTS IN CONTENT
• Layouts are independent of content type
• Multiple layouts can be used in one content type
• Editors can define own layouts in CMS
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33. SOLUTION: TEMPLATE FIELD
• Allows a single field to contain many pieces of data
• Each template has HTML, optional CSS & JS
• Can be in code, or DB; can be overridden
• Because it’s a field, can be revisioned
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39. OTHER BENEFITS
• Allows node-specific layouts, even within one content type
• Layouts can be shared across content types
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40. MULTIPLE LAYOUTS IN PAGES
• Layout of a single content type may change significantly
from node to node or even revision to revision
• Layouts need to be attached to node for workflow, etc.
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41. CONTROL OVER BLOCKS
• Content editors need to create blocks freely
• Need to be able to place blocks as part of page content
• Need to be able to embed blocks in other content
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42. SOLUTION: BLOCK REFERENCE
• Insert blocks into nodes as field content
• In combination with a content block solution, allows
reusable block content to be laid out in arbitrary layouts
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45. SOLUTION: EMBEDABBLES
• Allows block content to be placed into rich text contexts
• Effectively allows revisioning of block placement within that
context
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55. ALL CONTENT IS TRANSLATABLE
• Body content, block content, menu items, form labels, and
any other visible text
• Related translations grouped and accessible from the
source node
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56. “SUBSCRIPTION” VS “LOCALIZATION”
• Subscribed content adopts a specific piece of content from
another language
• Localized content begins as a copy from another language,
but can be edited independently and diverge
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57. EACH TRANSLATION IS DISTINCT
• Translations may not be literal
• The version of content for a particular market/language
should be managed separately from other markets/
languages
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68. POTENTIAL DRUPAL 8 IMPROVEMENTS
• Integrate more functionality from i18n in core
• Make entities translatable
• Simplify UI for managing content translations
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71. REVISIONS?
• More like “versions”
• Keep old copies of content
• Ideally, work on multiple versions of content at once
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72. WORKFLOW?
• Drupal has “unpublished” and “published”
• Add more states, like “approved” or “needs edits”
• Control access to each of those states
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73. CORE DRUPAL REVISIONS
• Only saves previous copies
• Can’t edit two copies independently
• No working drafts
• Only applies to nodes
• Only core ‘workflow’ states
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74. ALL THE THINGS?
• Nodes
• Menus
• Block Content
• Block Placement
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75. NODE ALL THE THINGS!
• Can be translated
• Drupal takes care of basic revisions
• Basic workflow needs met
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76. MENUS
• Drupal Menus are not strictly content
• No publishing, unpublishing
• Behavior can be unpredictable and confusing for content
editors
Sunday, November 4, 12
77. SOLUTION: MENU FIELD
• Menu-like content as a field
• Translatable, revisionable
• Mirrors Drupal native menus
• Flexible menu content - rich text
Sunday, November 4, 12
92. RESOURCES
• State Machine
http://drupal.org/project/state_machine
• Nodeblock
http://drupal.org/project/nodeblock
• Menu Field
http://drupal.org/project/menu_field
Sunday, November 4, 12