Training session

Notes for training session on 26/04/2016 (10.30AM-1.30PM) with Kirstie and Julia

Beta review

• Explaining changes with respect to requirements:
• Contact form in footer menu
• Event calendar in footer menu
• Go through issues provided by Julia and Kirstie: https://github.com/drozas/cecan/issues/25

Training

Quick general overview

• Logging in and updating the password
• Content administration
• Inline edition
• Administration via main panel (advanced):
• Contents: filtering and bulk operations
• Files
• Structure, appearance, extend, configuration: development (possibility of upgrading role)
• People and reports
• Reports: logs, top access denied/missing pages
• Basic Drupal terminology: content types, nodes, roles and taxonomies

Content types:

• Basic pages (these affects to all Content Types):

• Text format (filters) and WYSIWYG

• Revisions

• Publish/unpublish

• Extra options

• Hands on: Editing a basic page. Reverting the changes

• Type for: home, about us, collaborating partners, patterns books and landing pages

• CECAN member profile

• Landing page vs node page

• Includes first name, last name, position, picture and bio. * fields are mandatory

• Title is mandatory (although is invisible in landing page) - advice about standard naming

• Hands on: Creating a cecan member page. Checking the contents in view and node.

• Events

• Landing page vs node page

• Includes a body (trimmed to 1K for view), status, contact (e-mail address) and start/end date.

• Hands on: Creating an event page. Checking the contents in view and node.

• Blog post

• Landing page vs node page

• Includes a body (trimmed to 1K for view)

• Hands on: Creating a blog post. Checking the contents in view and node.

• Publications page

• Similar to basic page, but allows to upload files in the server.

• Hands on: Editing the publications page and adding some PDF files

Day-to-day of contents administration:

• Creating new contents (already did)
• Editing contents
• Via the administration panel
  • Hands on: Filtering by content type. Editing a member page.
• Via the edit tab
  • Hands on: Editing a basic page.
• Advanced edition:
  • Hands on: Bulk operation for all [test] contents.
  • Use of templates
  • Creating your own bootstrap grid: https://getbootstrap.com/examples/grid/ [responsive]

Next steps

• Contents plan: "hard-coded" vs content admins
• Everything we have seen can be edited/populated by you
• "hard-coded": slideshow, funding entities logos, menus, social media blocks
• Development:
• Final deployment
• Domain configuration

Any questions?