Drupal Basics for Content Managers: Editing my Drupal Website Drupal Basics for Content Managers: Editing my Drupal Website Cynthia Mijares, Irina Zaks,

In This Session: Basic Terms and Concepts –single page, landing page, blocks, menus Content types and Fields Categories (taxonomy) and Relationships Login / Roles / User Permissions Hands-on Editing site Q and A

Definitions – web publishing process The web publishing process allows non-technical people to not only read the web, but also to submit their content to the web; to sort, tag, and classify it; and work on the content collaboratively The tools/software that enables web publishing is called content management system (CMS). CMSs have been in use / development for about a decade Today we will give examples of how create content and edit a Drupal site

Definitions - the Content Content can be news, events info, a person’s profile, pictures from a trip, new publications, or more specialized content, for example, medical records, properties of novel nano-materials, botanical plants info. In addition to common attributes each content type has its own custom attributes. All types of content need to be sorted, tagged, and displayed in a various ways, for example, alphabetically Different content types have predefined relationships; for example, publications have authors who have profiles and who participate in events.

Drupal Concepts Enter data only once – display where needed, no duplicate entry of same info on different pages Different Content Types (course, faculty, events, news, publications, photos, etc.) have different fields for data entry (courses have course numbers, people have related departments) Relationships can be established between different content types (course have related person who is teaching this course) Some pages are compiled from information submitted via individual entries - you do not edit these pages directly

Login / Dashboard Login / SUNet ID Login authenticates a person and gives them access to administer the site based on the Role they have been assigned User Dashboard - edit your information, see your entries

Edit page Text (rich text vs plain text) Add link Attach File Image Remove image Revisions Page URL auto generated

Add an event See the event on the calendar See the event on the Events page Edit the event Give it an Audience

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Take Away Message It’s easy to edit a Drupal site! Stanford Tech Training Community Support Drop-in Help (monthly) Stanford Web Services