The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal (Dr ü G: Drupal User ’ s Group - users, not developers) This is an introduction to Drupal for site maintainers and beginning users; for people without any coder/ programmer/ developer background. Originally developed by Greg Beuthin, with subsequent edits from: [?]

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The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Menu path conventions The location/ path of many configuration settings are described in Nested menus are shown with a vertical line The following items - after a colon (:) show what’s on a page of the selected menu –A specific tabbed item is shown with [square brackets] –Items within a closed page view use a –Items within a normal page view use a “:”

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Menu example Simple menu path:

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Menu example: expandable Menu path w/ expandable item:

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Menu example: tab Menu path with tab item:

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Register Register yourself on the Drupal site Check for login info Login

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Your profile First things first Look for “Edit” tab Change your password to something you’ll remember

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Safeguarding We recommend you add a new admin user that is not the the root admin user (I.e. not user #1) Add new user Give new user pwd you’ll remember Log out and log in as this new user

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Quick look around Navigation menu Main column - the content area Sidebars Top: Site name, slogan, and mission Bottom: Footer

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Quick look around II

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Basic site settings Site name, slogan and mission Site (for admin purposes) Site logo

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal More site settings General settings Test and set clean URLS Custom homepage (if you want custom “splash” page)

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Looking at Themes Themes list - Configure global settings vs theme-specific Display options - enable or disable themes for individual users to select Display post information - displays author, timestamp, etc

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Briefly: Users, Roles and Permissions Access control Permissions are set here Roles Permissions are grouped by roles User profiles - and select “Edit” for user Admins can assign a user one or more roles

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Recommended modules Path Upload Statistics TinyMCE* (others?)

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Process for installing modules Download / copy modules from to your Drupal /modules directory Turn on modules Give permissions to appropriate roles

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Creating “content” Select content type Page Story Book page Blog Other common types: event; podcast; image;

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Typical content options Comment settings URL Path settings File attachments Authoring information Publishing options Title Body (with WYSIWYG* editor) Input formats / filters Log message Menu settings

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: WYSIWYG Editor Typically, TinyMCE “Disable rich text” to turn off Can insert images and links Site wide editor settings - select a user role to edit

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: Input formats Filters out unwanted HTML Typical options: Filtered HTML PHP Code Full HTML Settings

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: Comment and Menu Settings Menu Settings Can only add this page as a new menu item into an existing menu; can’t create a new menu Comment Settings Use node-specific comment settings to override site-wide “Read only” useful to keep old comments

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: URL Path Settings Used to create natural language URL paths – vs – Full settings:

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: File Attachments Files must be attached while still on page. Page will refresh, showing: –Delete –List –Path URL Uncheck “list” if inserting image File upload limits are set here:

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: Authoring Information Author’s name Date / timestamp Editable if you are a admin Authoring / timestamp display on/off here:

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Content: Publishing options Published - Visible (according to access control rules) In moderation queue - Awaiting moderation (if moderation is activated) Promoted to front page - Added to “river of news” blog list Sticky at top of lists Create new revision

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal More on content Full content list is available here: Can filter content by status, type, category Can apply limited actions to groups of posts (e.g. delete, etc)

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Customizing block (sidebars) Blocks - Visual display of page areas “Enabled” turns block on or off Weight and placement determines location –More options in “configure” Creating custom blocks

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Customizing menus Menus - Default: Navigation, and Primary links Ordering menus / items - “Edit” and select order within hierarchical list Displaying menus –Every menu gets own block (see customizing blocks) –Expanded / collapsed

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Customizing menus II Menu configuration –Add new menu (container) –Add new menu items (single links) –Any new menu adds subsequent block

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal File upload settings Turn on "upload" module Give roles access control Configure settings –Max. file upload size - for gen users, and admins

The Dr ü G Book: An Intro to Drupal Suggested additions to guide How to enable/ disable public registration