1. Basics of Drupal for Researchers, part 2
Stephanie Moore, Department of English
Drupal Consultant, Research IT
Based on a course designed by
Quinn Dombrowski, Digital Humanities Coordinator at Berkeley, Research IT

2. What this workshop will cover
Today:
Configuring content types and fields
Adding content
Blocks
Themes

3. Installed modules Administration menu Backup and migrate CTools
Pathauto
Token
Views
Date
References
Automatic nodetitles
Go through the module list and make sure the right stuff is enabled

4. Founders on the Founders
What we have:
Quotations by (and about) the Founding Fathers and Mothers
Biographical data and pictures
What we want:
A directory of the Founders, each entry of which…
Displays a picture and biography of the individual, and…
A list of quotations about them, in chronological order, with dates and names of author and addressee
This week we’ll set up the content types and fields and add some data, next week we’ll use Views to display the data

8. Founders Site: Entity Relationship Diagram
Person
Name
Biography
Birth Date
Death Date
Image
Quote
Title
Subject
Author
Addressee
Date

9. Founders Site: Content Types and Fields (to start)
Person
Name (rename default “title” field)
Biography (rename default “body” field)
Quote
Title (default)
Quote (rename default “body” field)
Talk about Drupal default fields

10. Steps for creating content types
Add new content type
Structure > Content types > Add content type
Configure settings
Add and configure fields
Configure display
Create dummy content to try it out
Content > Add content

11. Content Type Settings
All appear on the content type creation form except:
URL patterns
Go to Configuration > Search and
metadata > URL aliases
Permissions
Go to People > Permissions
(more on this next week)

12. Drupal terminology: fields
Each field has:
Field settings
Widget (data input)
Formatter (data display)
Fields are reusable across content types
Fields can be single-value or multi-value

13. More fields for our content types
Person
Name (title)
Biography (body)
Birth date (date field)
Death date (date field)
Image (image field)

14. More fields for our content types
Quote
Title - automatic nodetitles
Quote (body)
Subject (node reference)
Author (node reference)
Addressee (node reference)
Date (date field)

15. Automatic Node Titles & Pathauto
Tokens: small pieces of data you can reuse in various places and ways
Examples:
Most field values
Content author
Publication date

16. Create some dummy content!

17. Themes
AdaptiveTheme family: install AdaptiveTheme Core, but set one of the following as the default theme:
Corolla
Sky
Pixture Reloaded
AT Commerce
Configure fonts, colors, etc. through the UI

18. Blocks Blocks are positioned in regions defined by your theme
They can appear or be hidden based on user role, content type, or path
Go to Structure > Blocks

19. Next Week We’ll cover: Views Menus Users and roles Image styles
Troubleshooting
…Other stuff as needed

20. For Next Week
Finish adding dummy content (add a few more people and quotes)
Think of any topics (specific to your project?) you’d like to cover in the final week