Diggin' Drupal Gardens
503: Developing Site Structures
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What We’ll Be Covering…
Getting Started
 Gather
Materials
Understanding Systems
 Overview
 Planning
Site Set-Up
Taxonomy
 Overview
 Taxonomy
Drill-Down
 Create Vocabularies
 Vocabulary Use
Pathauto
 Overview
 Overview
 Create
 Configure
Site
 Change Theme
 Create Home Page
 Change About Page
 Site Information Settings
Summary
Conclusion
Books
 Overview
 Outline
a Book
 Build a Book
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Aliases
Getting Started: Your Lab Materials
Please use Mozilla Firefox as your browser for this workshop.
Log in to:
http://discoverdrupal.drupalgardens.com
After logging in to the training site, to gather your lab materials for this workshop, do the
following:
1.
Open another tab in your browser
2.
In your new tab, go to http://oregonstate.edu/cws/training
3.
Look in the lower right and click on the Training Materials graphic – this will take you to the page where
all training materials for all CWS Drupal classes are distributed
4.
Filter for the 500 – Diggin’ Drupal Gardens materials
5.
Locate the 503 Developing Site Structures row and click on the Lab link – download the lab to your
desktop
6.
Once the zip file is downloaded you will need to extract it. For a PC, right click on the zip file and select
Extract All. For a Mac, simply double-click on the zip file.
7.
You can then move the zip file to your trash
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Understanding Systems: Overview
Websites can grow to be complex
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Many different forms of media
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Many internal parts/pages
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External relationships may exist as well
Often times these parts depend on each other to achieve some desired function or
effect.
When there is a dependency between two or more objects or elements, and one or
more of those elements change, it may affect the other parts as well – often adversely.
This is why a good understanding of systems and how to work is very helpful.
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Understanding Systems: Overview – What is a System?
System: a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified
whole (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/system)
Just about everything is a system of something.
Think about it…
Families
Systems of People
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Our Bodies
Multiple Biological Systems
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Even Atoms
System of Protons, Neutrons & Electrons
Understanding Systems: Overview – A Website is a System
A website is an information system which consists of several different systems working
together to make it all happen
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Back-end
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The hardware required to store and distribute electronic files
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Web Servers
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Database Servers
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The programming required for hardware to communicate and perform particular tasks
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HTML
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PHP
Front End
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The User Interface (UI) we see on our computer monitors
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This is how we “communicate” with the equipment
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Most importantly, this is how we communicate with our audience
As Drupal site-builders we’ll be both interacting with and building a large part of the
front-end.
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Understanding Systems: Overview – Site Systems
There are three main systems we’ll be working with in this workshop:
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Navigation System
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Classification System
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Creating well-formed, logical menus
Creating a solid base for tagging and organizing site content
URL System
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Creating a meaningful, sectionalized, and automated URL structure
Solid development of these systems provides:
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Higher degree of usability
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Site optimization
Often, the development of one of these systems will lend itself nicely to the
development of another.
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Understanding Systems: Planning – Project – Overview
The project we’ll be working on, from this
point onward, is a website centered around
food.
This website, titled Food for Thought, has
two goals:
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Provide a wide collection of searchable
recipes
Provide advice on how to use different
methods and common utensils
Our audience consists of:
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Ages 13+
Male & Female
English Speakers
Understanding Systems: Planning – Project - Site Map
To get started, it’s a good idea to
have at least a rough idea of how
the site should be formed.
A site map is a good, graphic tool
for fitting everything together.
Preparation
Equipment
Book
Custom
Cooking
Methods
Book
Book
Conversions
Book
Cooking
Companion
Book
Preservation
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Book
Title/Content
Title
Should be meaningful , concise and
somewhat define purpose
Node Type, if known
How Content Relates
Home
Basic Page
At right is a very basic frame on
which we’ll build our Food for
Thought site on.
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Node Type
Food for
Thought
Relationship
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FFT People
Recipes
Custom
Custom
Understanding Systems: Planning– Project - Narrative
The site map, shown previously, is a good general guide to the structural components
of our site.
Additionally, we should have some idea of the intended function that each of the
major components serves – a narrative will serve this purpose nicely
Food For Thought
Home Page
Function:
an overview page which
describes the website as
a whole
Cooking Companion
Feature
Recipes
Feature
Function:
similar to an Appendix or Bonus section of a traditional cookbook
Methods
Section
Equipment
Section
Conversions
Section
Function:
a categorized collection
of techniques and tips for
the cooking, handling,
and preservation of food
Function:
a searchable and sortable
collection of tips regarding
the use of common food
preparation and serving
equipment
Function:
a simple standard to
metric conversion chart
for common cooking
measurements
FFT People Feature
Highlights the employees of Food for Thought by providing photos, brief
biographies, and contact information.
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Function:
a searchable and sortable
collection of recipes
Site Set-Up: Overview
For your training site, we’ll be taking advantage of Drupal
Gardens. Drupal Gardens is:
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A special hosting environment provided by Acquia, the
proprietary Drupal consultation company founded by Dries
Buytaert
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A good example of a Distribution
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Highly stylized – it’s not what you should expect out of a
basic Drupal installation, but it’s good example of what
Drupal can become
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Available anywhere you can get on the web
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Free for your use
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 01 – Create Site – Log In to Drupal Gardens
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First, let’s log in to Drupal
Gardens:
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Go to http://drupalgardens.com
and click the Log In link in the
upper right corner
Please note that this exercise assumes you have created an account during the Basics workshop. If you have not yet created an account, please click the
Sign Up link in the upper right corner and sign up prior to initiating a site.
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 01 - Create Site – Establish URL
When the splash screen appears:
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Click the Create a free site
button
A screen for your site name will
appear
Site URL field = enter the URL
you want for your site
Word verification field = enter
the characters you see in the
CAPTCHA image
Click the Continue button
Site Set-Up: Ex. 01 - Create Site – Select a Template
When the template selection screen
appears:
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Select Campaign template from the top
drop down menu
Locate the Webforms option and change
the switch from off to on
Locate the FAQ option and change the
switch from off to on
Click the Create site button
Site Set-Up: Ex. 01 Create Site – Completed
An indicator bar will appear to show you the
progress as your site installs.
The process takes approximately five minutes.
Upon completion your site will display.
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 02 - Change Theme – My Themes Palette
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Drupal Gardens gives you a great deal of
control over your theme. Let’s change the
theme so it’s more appropriate for a food
site:
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Go to Admin menu > Appearance
Once the My theme palette appears, click
the Themes tab
Click the Choose a new theme link
Site Set-Up: Ex. 02 - Change Theme – Select Theme
To select a theme:
1.
2.
Click on the Kenwood theme to preview
it
Click on the Choose button to select the
theme
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3.
For the sake of this workshop stick with the
Kenwood theme – you can always change it easily
at a later date
An overlay dialog box will appear – name
your theme and click the OK button
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 02 - Change Theme – Publish Theme
Now it’s time to publish the theme:
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Click the Publish button
The system will generate a thumbnail
– this takes a minute or two
After the thumbnail appears, you’ll
see a message at the top of the
palette that informs you the theme is
live
Click the X in the upper right corner of
the palette to close it
Site Set-Up: Ex. 02 - Change Theme – Completed
The theme is now published. Now let’s make a couple more quick configurations.
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 03 – Create Home Page
By default, the front page is set up to
show a news stream. Let’s change
this so it has a static welcome in the
content area. To do this, we first have
to create a node:
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Go to Shortcut bar > Add Content >
Basic Page
The node submission form opens
Title field = Home
Input format field = Full HTML
Body field = paste text from Ex. 03
lab materials
Site Set-Up: Ex. 03 – Create Home Page – Change URL Alias
For this particular node, we’re going
to turn off the automatic URL alias.
To do this:
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Click on the Search engine
optimization (SEO) tab
Uncheck the Generate automatic
URL alias check box
URL alias field = home
Click the Pubilsh button
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 03 – Create Home Page – Completed
The completed page is somewhat
bland, but once it’s put into it’s
proper place on the front page, it
will work just fine.
Perhaps you noted that the styling
toolbar buttons were missing. The
Full HTML WYSIWYG editor profile
needs to be configured to get the
buttons (Admin menu >
Configuration > Wysiwyg profiles).
This will not be covered in this
class.
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 04 – Change About Page
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The About page is a pre-made
page intended to describe your
organization. It includes an
embedded Google map.
Let’s update the text on our
About page:
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2.
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Click on the About link in the
Main menu
Click on the Edit tab to open
the node in edit mode
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 04 – Change About Page – Change Text
Once in edit mode:
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Copy the text from your Ex. 04 lab
materials and paste it over the
existing text in the node
Site Set-Up: Ex. 04 – Change About Page – Embed Photo
Once the upload overlay appears:
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Click the Browse button – this will open a
window to your computer – navigate to
your lab materials and select the ex04.jpg file
Click the Upload button
An image settings dialog box will appear
Current format is field = Original
Description field = close up of
blackberries and cake
Click the Submit button
The image will appear small – it’s sized
correctly, the display space is smaller
than the text editor
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 04 – Change About Page – Completed
When you’re satisfied with your
page, click the Save button.
Your saved About page should look
something similar to what’s shown
at left.
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 05 – Change Site Information Settings
Now we’ll quickly jump in and
change some global settings to finish
setting up our site:
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Go to Admin menu > Configuration
> Site information
Site name field = Food for Thought
Slogan field = We’re What’s
Cookin’!
Default front page field = home
Click the Save configuration button
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Once the settings have saved, close
the panel by clicking on the X tab in
the upper right of the overlay.
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Site Set-Up: Ex. 05 – Change Site Information Settings - Completed
After closing the overlay,
you’ll be returned to your
site’s front page.
Note the changes in the site
name, the site slogan, and
the presence of the Home
node at the center of the
front page.
Now that your site is
configured a bit, let’s get in
and structure it out.
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Books: Overview
The Book page content type was introduced, initially, in the Content Types workshop.
As a refresher, this content type has some great features in terms of developing the
structure of a site:
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Relates appropriate content together with Parent/Child pages
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Provides a degree of automation to menu development.
Remember, the Book page content type is intended for hierarchical content.
Think of it in the same
fashion as you would a
traditional book – with a
main topic and supporting
chapters.
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Books: Ex. 06 – Outline a Book – Revisit Site Map
Preparation
Equipment
Book
The site map provided at the at the
beginning of this workshop display a
small step towards outlining a book.
The Cooking Companion section of
this site will be the focus for our
Book building efforts.
As shown at right on the site map,
the Equipment category within our
Cooking Companion book will consist
of its own custom node type. This is
addressed in a future workshop.
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Custom
Cooking
Methods
Book
Book
Conversions
Book
Cooking
Companion
Book
Preservation
Book
Food for
Thought
Home
Basic Page
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FFT People
Recipes
Custom
Custom
Books: Ex. 05 – Outline a Book – What is an Outline?
Outlining a written piece of work simply means to take a broad topic and break it
down into smaller pieces that support the main topic.
A great example of an outline is to look at the Table of Contents of any textbook.
Generally, each chapter contains a descriptive title and probably contains several
points of interest.
The site map is a start at outlining, but it really just points us in the general directions.
The Methods group and its children:
Cooking and Handling &
Preservation, are ripe for outlining.
So, let’s get to outlining...
Preparation
Book
Cooking
Methods
Book
Book
Conversions
Book
Cooking
Companion
Book
Preservation
Book
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Books: Ex. 05 – Outline a Book – Methods, Handling, & Preservation
According to our summary, the
content that will exist in the
Methods group will be “a
categorized collection of
techniques for the cooking,
handling, and preservation of
food”.
How could these sub-groups be
further outlined?
What are some different
Cooking Methods?
What about Handling?
Preservation?
Methods
Book
Preparation
Cooking
Preservation
Book
Book
Book
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Books: Ex. 05 – Outline a Book – Completed
Methods
Book
Our site map is starting to show
some signs of advanced
structure.
Now it’s time to set it all up.
Preparation
Cooking
Preservation
Book
Book
Book
We won’t be creating full pages
for everything – instead, we’ll
include content in the top three
pages and just get the others
started.
Food Safety
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B-B-Q & A
Freezing
Child Book Page
Child Book Page
General Prep
Baker’s Dozen
Child Book Page
Child Book Page
Meat Prep
Get the Skinny
Dehydrating
Child Book Page
Child Book Page
Child Book Page
Fruit & Veg Prep
Joe’s Diner
Child Book Page
Pickling
Child Book Page
Child Book Page
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Child Book Page
Canning
Child Book Page
Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Enable Book Module
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Now that we’ve got our
outline we can put our book
together. We need to enable
the Book module and Book
navigation block to work with
this content, so let’s start with
the Book module:
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Go to Admin menu >
Modules
Locate the Book module and
check it
Click the Save configuration
button
Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Enable Book Navigation Block
And now we’ll enable the Book
navigation block so we can view
our Book menu as its being built:
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Go to Admin menu > Structure >
Blocks
Scroll down to the Disabled
group and locate the Book
navigation block
Select the Sidebar B option from
the drop-down menu
Click the Save blocks button
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After saving the block settings,
close out of the Blocks overlay.
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Missing Block
After closing out of the Blocks
overlay, you’ll note the Book
navigation block on the right side of
your screen, but it’s empty.
This is, of course, due to the fact
that we don’t have any Book page
nodes created yet.
So let’s get to building!
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Parent Page
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Let’s start by creating the Parent
book page:
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Go to Shortcut bar > Add content >
Book page
Title field = Cooking Companion
Body field = use lab materials
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Input format field = Full HTML
Ex. 06a text
ex-06a.jpg
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Book outline field = <create a new
book>
Click the Publish button
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Completed Parent Page
After saving, note the appearance
of the Book navigation menu.
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Conversions Child Page
According to our site map, the
Conversions Child Book page has
nothing stemming from it, so let’s
quickly create this node as well:
1.
Scroll to the bottom of the
Cooking Companion Parent
page and click on the Add child
page link
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Conversions Child Page – Enter Data
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To create the Child book page:
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Title field = Conversions
Input format field = Full HTML
Click the HTML tab at the top right of
your text editor
Body field = use lab materials
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5.
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Open and copy the ex-06b.txt file
Paste the HTML code in
Click the WYISIWYG tab to return to the rich
text editor
Click the Publish button
Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Conversions Child Page – Completed
After your Conversions child page saves,
note how the Book module is doing its
job by automatically creating your
navigation in two spots.
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Methods Section – Methods Parent Page
Now it’s time to put our outline to
work. We’re going to start by creating
the Methods page, which will be a
parent to three sub-sections:
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From the Cooking Companion parent
node, click on the Add Child page link
Title field = Methods
Input format field = Full HTML
Body field = use lab materials
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5.
Ex. 06c text
ex-06c.jpg file
Click the Publish button
The results should appear similar to
the example shown.
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Methods Section – Methods Child Pages – Now You Do It
Now it’s time to quickly build out the Preparation, Cooking, and Preservation sections,
which are all children of Methods.
Parent = Methods
Parent = Methods
Parent = Methods
Title field = Preparation
Title field = Cooking
Title field = Preservation
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Body field = use lab materials:
Body field = use lab materials:
Body field = use lab materials:
• Ex. 06d text
• Ex. 06e text
• Ex. 06f text
Weight field = -15
Weight field = -14
Weight field = -13
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Methods Section – Cooking Child Pages – Now You Do It
Create the child pages of Cooking.
Parent = Cooking
Parent = Cooking
Title field = B-B-Q & A
Title field = Baker’s Dozen
Body field = use lab materials:
Body field = use lab materials:
• Ex. 06g text
• Ex. 06g text
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
Parent = Cooking
Parent = Cooking
Title field = Get the Skinny
Title field = Joe’s Diner
Body field = use lab materials:
Body field = use lab materials:
• Ex. 06g text
• Ex. 06g text
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Methods Section – Preparation Child Pages – Now You Do It
Refer to your Ex. 06h lab materials to create the child pages of Preparation.
Parent = Preparation
Parent = Preparation
Title field = Food Safety
Title field = General Preparation
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Body field = leave blank
Body field = leave blank
Weight field = -15
Weight field = -14
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
Parent = Preparation
Parent = Preparation
Title field = Fruit & Vegetable Preparation
Title field = Meat Preparation
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Body field = leave blank
Body field = leave blank
Weight field = -13
Weight field = -12
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Methods Section – Preservation Child Pages – Now You Do It
Refer to your Ex. 06h lab materials to create the child pages of Preservation.
Parent = Preservation
Parent = Preservation
Parent = Preservation
Title field = Canning
Title field = Dehydrating
Title field = Pickling
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Input format field = Full HTML
Body field = blank
Body field = blank
Body field = blank
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
Click the Publish button
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Books: Ex. 06 – Build a Book – Create Methods Section – Completed
Clicking through the parent categories in the Book navigation menu will open each
group of menu items.
There are many pages that have been created as “holder” pages. As site builders, we
know what’s desired for each holder page, we just haven’t generated the content for it
yet.
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Books: Book Manager
Remember, you can also get a view of the overall structure of your book by going to
Shortcut bar > Find content > Books tab.
Here you can drag and drop your titles
to order them as you wish. Your
changes will be reflected automatically
throughout the system.
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Taxonomy: Overview
It’s a somewhat daunting term, but most of us tend to understand taxonomies
innately. When given a varied group of things, most people sort things out based on
some type of categorical attribute.
A taxonomy is merely a way of categorizing things.
If a person happens to have a music collection and enjoys more than one artist or type
of music, chances are, they’re created their own musical “taxonomy” based on genre.
My Music
• Classical
–
Boston Philharmonic

Beethoven’s 5th
• Country
–
Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire
• Jazz
–
Norah Jones

Come Away With Me
• Rock
–
The outline at left may look somewhat familiar in
form.
While there may be many different taxonomy
topics, there is really only one purpose behind
creating one…it organizes things.
This, in turn, makes things easier to find.
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Around the World
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Taxonomy: Overview – Why Bother With a Taxonomy?
Taxonomies do not need to be built for a Drupal site to work. For small sites, many
site-builders may choose not to use this feature.
For large sites, though – sites that contain much more content than menu space –
taxonomies can help in the following ways:

Categorical assignment


Controlled keywords/tagging


Helps with queries and Views
Provides an out of the box solution for related content
As a foundational tool for other modules

Many other contributed modules leverage the functionality that Taxonomy supplies
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Taxonomy: Overview – Terminology
Before we begin, it would be beneficial to go over the terminology used within a site’s
Taxonomy:
Taxonomy: The Drupal module that allows a user to categorize content using both tags and
defined terms – also the collection of vocabularies used in a Drupal site
Vocabulary: A collection of terms used within a particular category – several different
vocabularies might exist in one site’s taxonomy
Term: A word or phrase and its definition
Tag: A word or phrase that is connected to a node and serves as a tool to facilitate content
filtering
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Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down
Now, imagine that someone has
dumped a shoebox full of recipe
cards in front of you.
Your job is to sort through it all and
put it into order.
How many different ways can these
items be sorted?
What makes sense to you?
Even more importantly, what do
you think makes sense to someone
else who is looking for something in
particular?
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Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down – Establish Topic
Before building the actual taxonomy
on Drupal, it’s a good idea to come in
prepared performing a drill-down
first.
To do a taxonomy drill-down:
First, establish a topic.
Recipes
The topic should be:

Broad

Directly related to the main subject
of the site
We’ll start by using Recipes as a topic.
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Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down – Vocabularies
Food
Group
Alphabetic
We’ve established Recipes as our
topic.
Nutrition
Value
Course
Recipes
Let’s get a little more specific with
our Recipes group by adding some
categories.
Each of these categories will be
their own vocabulary.
Meal
Cuisine
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Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down – Parent Terms
Dairy
Veg
Grain
Now, we’ll add a first level of
terms for each category. These
will be known as the Parent
terms in the vocabularies.
The diagram is starting to look a
little more detailed by now.
Food
Group
Meat
Fruit
Alphabetic
Junk
Entree
Recipes
Appetizer
Nutrition
Value
Course
Low
Carb
Soup
Meal
Cuisine
Snack
Dinner
Italian
Break
fast
Chinese
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Vegan
Mexican
Lunch
Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down – Child Terms
Tomato
Cheese
Milk
Veg
Dairy
Can a level of Child terms be
added?
Beef
Bread
Grain
Pasta
Food
Group
Meat
Seafood
Yes, as shown with the Food
Groups vocabulary at left.
Pork
In fact, this diagram can be drilled
down quite a bit further.
Poultry
Fruit
Apple
Alphabetic
Junk
Entree
Recipes
Appetizer
Vegan
Nutrition
Value
Course
Low
Carb
Soup
Meal
Cuisine
Snack
Dinner
Italian
Break
fast
Chinese
Lunch
Mexican
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Part of building a good taxonomy,
though, is also knowing when to
stop.
This is a matter of judgment and
having a focused concept of what
is desired as an end result.
Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down – Clean-Up
Sometimes a drill-down exercise can
produce many possibilities.
Veg
Dairy
Some, of course, will always be better
than others.
It’s the job of the site-builder to
determine what will work best and
weed out what might be
unnecessary.
In this case, the following will go:

Beef
Bread
Grain
Pasta
Food
Group
Meat
Seafood
Pork
Poultry
Fruit
Apple
Alphabetic
Junk
Entree
Recipes
Appetizer
Nutrition
Value
Course
Alphabetic


Tomato
Cheese
Milk
Not specific enough
Low
Carb
Soup
Meal
Nutrition Value

Cuisine
Potentially high-maintenance
Snack
Dinner
Italian
Break
fast
Chinese
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Vegan
Mexican
Lunch
Taxonomy: Ex. 07 Taxonomy Drill-Down – Completed
Tomato
Cheese
Milk
Veg
Dairy
Beef
Seafood
Bread
Grain
Pasta
Food
Group
Meat
Poultry
Fruit
Entree
Pork
Apple
Appetizer
Course
The Meal and Course
vocabularies are quite small.
The Cuisine vocabulary is a bit
larger.
Recipes
Soup
What remains are four very solid
recipe-based vocabularies.
The Food Group vocabulary is
the most complex of all.
Meal
Cuisine
Snack
Italian
Dinner
Chinese
Mexican
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Lunch
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies - Tagging – Overview
The first few vocabularies that we’ll construct are intended to be used as tagging tools
for a custom Recipe content type that will be built in the future.
Tagging, as mentioned previously, is used to help optimize site content.
Cheese
Dairy
Grain
Pasta
Food
Group
Consider this…
Tomato
Veg
One person might enter this website
looking for Italian food.
Meat
Beef
Another person may desire dishes with
tomatoes in it.
Entree
Recipe
Still another may be looking for pasta
recipes.
Lasagna
Course
In all cases, Lasagna should be on any
result list – if it’s tagged right
Meal
Cuisine
Italian
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Dinner
This is part of content optimization
Lunch
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies - Tagging – Meal Vocabulary – Define
To create the Meal vocabulary, go
to Admin menu > Structure >
Taxonomy:
1
2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The Taxonomy manager will
appear
Click the Add vocabulary link
An overlay will appear
Name field = Meal
Description field = enter a brief
description of the vocabulary, if
desired
Click the Save button
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Meal Vocabulary – Add Terms
You’ll be returned to the Taxonomy
manager, which will contain a new
Meal vocabulary. To add terms:
1
1.
2.
3.
Click the corresponding add terms link
Name field = Breakfast
Click the Save button
2
Now repeat this process for



3
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Lunch
Dinner
Snack
Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Meal Vocabulary – Organize Terms
1
To re-order the new terms
1.
2.
3.
Click the List tab
Click and hold on the small cross
icon next to the Lunch term and
drag it up between the Breakfast
and Dinner terms
Click the Save button
2
3
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies - Tagging – Now You Do It
Now, you give it a shot. This vocabulary can also be found in your Ex. 08b lab
materials.
Define Taxonomy
Add Terms
From the Taxonomy manager
Appetizer
Click on the Add Vocabulary link
Beverage
Vocabulary name field = Course
Bread
Description field = Select the course, such
as appetizer, entrée, etc, that best
applies to this recipe
Dessert
Click the Save button
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Soup
Salad
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Term Options- Overview
So far, we’ve just listed a few terms in a very simple vocabulary.
Taxonomy can provide some additional features, though, such as:

Definitions/descriptions


Allows for the inclusion of definitions. This is a great feature that provides the ability to do something simple like
spelling out an acronym or something more complex, such as a detailed definition.
Parent – Child relationships

This allows for a drop-down list that is hierarchical, so you can, in effect, make categorized lists of your categories.
These different options can be used in a variety of ways by Drupal, as well as by other
modules that might be included in an installation.
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Term Options – Cooking Methods Vocabulary – Define
To create the Cooking Methods
vocabulary, click the Taxonomy
breadcrumb to return to the
Taxonomy manager:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1
Once on the Taxonomy manager,
click the Add vocabulary link
An overlay will appear
Name field = Cooking Methods
Description field = enter a brief
description of the vocabulary, if
desired
Click the Save button
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3
4
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Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Term Options – Cooking Methods Vocabulary – Add Terms
You’ll be returned to the Taxonomy
manager, which will contain a new
Cooking Methods vocabulary. To add
terms:
1
1.
2.
2
3.
4.
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Click the corresponding add terms link
Name field = Dry Heat Cooking
Description field = paste definition
from Ex. 08c
Click the Save button
Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Term Options – Cooking Methods Vocabulary – Create Child
Now we’re going to make a child
term of Dry Heat Cooking. In the
new submission form:
1
1.
2.
2
3.
3
4.
4
5.
5
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Name field = Bake
Description field = paste
definition from Ex. 08c
Click the Relations fieldset to
open it
Parent terms list = Dry Heat
Cooking
Click the Save button
Taxonomy: Ex. 08 Create Vocabularies – Term Options – Cooking Methods Vocabulary – Now You Do It
For the next ten minutes, following the example provided in Ex. 08c, continue adding
terms from the Cooking Methods vocabulary.
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Taxonomy: Ex. 09 Vocabulary Use – Attach Vocabulary – Edit Content Type
Taxonomies can be attached to
content types. In fact, this is
how they’re used as tagging
tools.
So let’s go to Admin menu >
Structure > Content types to
attach the Cooking Methods
vocabulary to our Book page
content type:
1.
1
Once on the Content Types
Manager, click the Book page
manage fields link
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Taxonomy: Ex. 09 Vocabulary Use – Attach Vocabulary – Add New Field
To connect the Cooking Methods
vocabulary, we need to add a new field
in the content type:
2
1
3
1.
4
2.
3.
5
4.
5.
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Add new field field = Cooking
Methods
Field name field = cooking_methods
Data Type field = Term reference
Form element field = Select List
Click the Save button
Taxonomy: Ex. 09 Vocabulary Use – Attach Vocabulary – Configure New Field
To configure the new field:
1
1.
2.
3.
4.
Help text field = Select the cooking
method that best applies
Number of values field = Unlimited
Vocabulary field = Cooking
Methods
Click the Save settings button
2
Now let’s go tag our Book pages…
3
4
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Taxonomy: Ex. 09 Vocabulary Use – Tag Book Page
It’s time to start putting our
vocabulary to work.
From within the Book navigation
menu, go to Cooking Companion >
Methods > Cooking > B-B-Q & A and
open the page in Edit mode.
Note that there’s a new feature there
that wasn’t present before:
1
1.
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Cooking Methods field = Dry Heat
Cooking, Grill
Taxonomy: Ex. 09 Vocabulary Use – Tag Book Page – Now You Do It
Tag the other child pages of Cooking.
Title field = Baker’s Dozen
Title field = Get the Skinny
Title field = Joe’s Diner
Cooking Methods field =
Cooking Methods field =
Cooking Methods field =
– Dry Heat Cooking
– Dry Heat Cooking
– Dry Heat Cooking
– Bake
– Bake
– Grill
– Grill
– Oil-Based Cooking
– Water-Based Cooking
– Deep Fry
– Blanch
– Roast
Click the Save button
– Poach
Click the Save button
Click the Save button
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Taxonomy: Ex. 09 Vocabulary Use – Tag Book Page – Completed
When you click on a term…
…it brings up a list of all the
other content that is also tagged
with that term – this is called
related content
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Pathauto: Overview
Pathauto is a contributed module that provides the ability to automatically generate
aliases based on token values.
A token value is, basically, a “fill in the blank” value. As a very simple example, if you
had a data field called “name”, you could then use that data field to inject a specific
name value. So, theoretically, you could configure the automatic alias of a node type
to be something like “my-site.drupalgardens/content/[name]” which, upon saving a
node with a name field containing the value “John Doe”, would automatically inject
that value into the path to yield the resulting “my-site.drupalgardens/content/johndoe”.
It’s actually easier (and cooler) than it sounds, and can be used to do interesting
things, such as automatically sectionalizing your site out.
Let’s play with this a bit…
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Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases
Let’s begin by taking a look at the
default URL alias pattern. We’ll use
our Cooking Companion book as an
example.
The default alias pattern inserts the
word “content” before the node
title on all content types in the
system.
We can make this even more
granular…
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Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases – Patterns Tab
Let’s take a look at Pathauto, now.
Go to Admin menu > Configuration
> URL aliases:
1.
2.
3.
4.
1
2
3
When the overlay loads, click on
the Patterns tab
For the purpose of this exercise,
we’re only interested in the fields
within the Content Paths fieldset
on this page
Note the top field contains the
default pattern to use for all nodes
unless otherwise specified
Also note that there are available
fields for all content types
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Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases – Replacement Patterns
Now let’s take a look at the available
token values:
1
1.
2.
2
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Click on the Replacement Patterns
fieldset within the Content Paths
group – the list is pretty huge
For our purposes today, we’re going
to use node-based tokens
Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases – Add Replacement Patterns
There are a couple of ways to apply a
token.
You can click into the field you want to
enter the value into, then click on the
value in the replacement list that you
wish to enter there
or
You can just copy and paste the value in.
Basic page paths field = [node:title]
Blog entry paths field = blog/[node:author]/[node:title]
Book page paths field = book/[node:title]
FAQ item paths field = faq/[node:title]
Gallery paths field = gallery/[node:title]
News item paths field = news/[node:title]
Poll paths field = poll/[node:title]
We’re going to keep it pretty simple.
Enter the token values as shown at right,
then click the Save configuration button
at the bottom of the screen.
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Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases – Bulk Update Aliases
Now is when things start to get pretty
cool. We’re going to update all of the
aliases in one fell swoop. Go to Shortcut
bar > Find content:
1.
2.
3.
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Once your Content list loads, click the
checkbox in the header at the to of the
content list – this will select everything
on the page
In the Update Options field, select
Update URL Alias
Click the Update button
2
3
4
5
Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases – Alias Update Confirmation
Once all nodes are processed, you’ll get a confirmation message
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Pathauto: Ex. 10 Configure Aliases – Completed
Now go to any page in your Cooking Companion and you’ll see the change in the
address bar.
Go to any other node in the system and you’ll see it’s been changed as well. You’ll
probably agree that this is pretty cool.
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Summary
We’ve come quite a ways! Here’s what we covered in this workshop:

Installation and initial set-up of a Drupal Gardens site

Home & About page creation

The structuring of a 17 node book

Initial vocabulary creation and tagging

Automatic alias configuration and bulk URL updates
We’re at a point in the development of this site where all of the work that we’ve done
isn’t always immediately obvious.
It will become increasingly apparent, though, as we move into more advanced
concepts such as custom content types and views.
What we’ve done is created a very solid foundation upon which we can build an
optimized and highly usable website that contains many user-friendly features.
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Conclusion
This completes our Diggin’ Drupal Gardens tutorial. For additional tutorials please
visit CWS Training at:
http://oregonstate.edu/cws/training/view/training-materials
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