- Persona:
- Administrator/Site owner. Someone with a deeper level of Drupal expertise who can create the experience appropriate for marketers to use day to day.
- What the Demo Covers:
- Show how easily users can change the experience of a Drupal site
- Login Credentials:
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Administrator: admin/admin
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Login as the user admin (password: admin)
We’ve seen how business users can create and manage online experiences with content, commerce and community features in the same platform. Let’s take a deeper look at how some of that data is managed at a deeper level.
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Click ‘Menu’, then ‘Content’.
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Scroll down and edit one of the ‘WEM Contest’ content types (by clicking ‘edit’ on the far right of the item.’ ‘
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On the edit page, scroll down to the Contest Video field and show how a new field could be added.
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Click on ‘URL path settings’ link in the Contest Video section.
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Uncheck Generate automatic URL alias
Note that path alias templates can be set up and show ‘Configure URL alias patterns’
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Paste the following URL into the ‘URL alias’ field: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMPguURoD4
Talk about adding a video about London to this contest.
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Click ‘Save’ at the bottom of the page
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Click Menu (if menu is not already displayed)
Talk about how we’ll now see how easy it is to modify a workflow without code with a few simple clicks.
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Click People on the top nav bar.
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Click the Permissions Tab
Note the granularity of these checkboxes on this page which translates to numerous permissions configuration options.
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Scroll down to WEM Tweet: Delete Any Content. Check the reviewer box (2nd from the right), then scroll to the bottom and click ‘Save permissions’
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On the next page, click ‘Content Revisions ’tab
Good opportunity to talk about why nodes in Drupal are good because each element (a photo, a video, a block of text, is an indivudal piece which can be optimized for different screen types/form factors, campaigns, geographic sites, etc. As compared to other systems which are based on a page model where you create an entire new page for everything.
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Go to Menu -> Configuration and scroll down to the Workbench section. Click ‘Workbench Moderation’.
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Update the workflow by adding a ‘Denied’ workflow state with a description of ‘Content rejected’. Drag and drop this new state between ‘Needs Review’ and ‘Published’.
Talk about how you’ve now added a news step in the workflow which you’ve been able to customize yourself without using code.