1. Drupal syndication UA Webmasters May 8, 2013 Margrit McIntosh

2. Moving content into and out of Drupal sites Drupal site Other site Drupal site File

3. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds or files – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP

4. Overview: Modules Aggregator (optional Drupal core) Views – Views data export – for creating CSV or XML feeds Feeds – Feeds Tamper – Feeds XPath Parser – for incoming XML feeds LDAP UUID Services - allows a Drupal site to provide web services via multiple interfaces (REST, XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, SOAP, AMF, etc.)

5. Not covered: using the LDAP module for user provisioning, user authentication, or user authorization.

6. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – whole-site RSS publishing http://yoursite.com/rss.xml – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds or files – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP

7. Demo: Exporting RSS Feed Create and populate content type to export via feed Create a View and use the Feed plugin If needed, edit content type to add fields to Teaser view mode Note that all fields will be contained in the

8. Demo: Exporting CSV and XML Feeds Install Views Data Export module In a View, add your fields, then – add Data export (default is CSV) – (or) add Data export and modify to XML If exporting XML, check your feed to make sure it is not malformed.

9. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds or files – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP

10. Incoming: Aggregator Optional core module Aggregator Does not make nodes Useful for simple uncomplicated presentation of incoming feeds

11. Incoming: Feeds Can import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records Receives RSS/Atom, CSV, OPML Feeds XPathParser lets you map bits from raw XML feed to fields Feeds ImageGrabber lets you import images to an image field Feeds Tamper lets you massage fields

12. example: csv file import

13. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP

14. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP

15. Demo: COM D7 OPA News

16. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP

17. A word of warning: Creating a directory from EDS does NOT get rid of these problems: 1.incorrect data 2.disliked data 3.data curation responsibility 4.expiring outdated nodes

18. EDS to nodes via LDAP You will need to get an account to access EDS: need two people who are FERPA-trained to be account holders. You will need to have the LDAP Extension to PHP installed on your server. Multivalue attributes will not get into a multi- value field unless you hack the module

19. So you’ve decided to LDAP your Directory... Now that you have your EDS account and your server is set up... Decide what attributes you want http://sia.uits.arizona.edu/eds_attributes Create content type to hold people Set up your LDAP Server Start running some test queries

20. Demo: test query

21. Feed Importer For testing: create a query that returns a handful of records Create a new content type just for the Importer to attach to. Set up the Feed Importer and do your mapping Test it and see if it creates a handful of nodes

22. Demo: COM D7 People with Feeds Tamper

23. Overview 1.Creating outgoing content – Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML) 2.Consuming incoming content – Consuming Feeds or files – Migrating content between Drupal sites 3.Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed 4.Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records via LDAP