energy.gov case study - badcamp 2011

BADcampOctober 22, 2011Roger López

Energy.gov Case Study

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Do It With Drupal 2011, Roger López

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Roger López‣ VP, Engineering at

Treehouse Agency‣ Drupal.org member

since July 2006‣ @zroger‣ Drupal.org, Twitter, et al.


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Do it with Drupal, 2011, Roger López

Project Goals‣ Consolidation of 100’s of sub-sites‣ Sub-site creation should not require

developer intervention.‣ Content should be easily shared

between sub-sites.‣ Maintain a uniform style across all

sub-sites.


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Drupal 7‣ Released January 5, 2011‣ Target launch date: August 4, 2011‣ Drupal 6 will stopped being

supported in about 2-3 years


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What about contrib?‣ Entities and fields‣ DB API and EntityFieldQuery‣ Image styles‣ ...


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Organic groups‣ Create groups‣ Content is added to groups ‣ Users are members of groups‣ Membership-based access control


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Group Type


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Group Membership


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OG Usage‣ Group type‣ Office vocabulary terms

‣ Group content‣ Articles‣ Pages‣ Blocks*


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Not all terms are created equal‣ Internal sites are groups‣ External sites are not‣ Otherwise the same


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OG Tasks


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http://drupal.org/project/og_tasks


https://github.com/treehouseagency/og_tasks

https://github.com/treehouseagency/og_tasks

Blocks


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Block Creator!=

Administrator


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User generated Blocks‣ Node-like blocks‣ Fields‣ Templates

‣ Listing blocks‣ User-defined filters‣ Pre-defined styles


screenshot of listing block example, with highlights like previous slide


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Beans(Block Entities)


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Block Entities‣ Block types‣ Fieldable‣ Simple data storage for settings‣ Non-admin permissions‣ Data entry is familiar to users


Input form for a listing bean. Explain how non-field beans work.


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View modes‣ Previously called “Build modes”‣ Provides multiple display options‣ Out of the box‣ Full content‣ Teaser‣ RSS


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Named styles

‣ Block teaser ‣ Related items


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Want More?‣ Modern Theming:

Beyond Preprocessing and .tpls‣ Tim Cosgrove‣ 5:00 pm today‣ Valley LSB 2050.


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Editorial listings‣ Hand-selected listings of nodes‣ Multiple Node Reference field‣ View mode set in the Node

Reference field settings‣ Additional fields‣ More link, Header text, etc.


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Block Placement


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Pages vs Nodes‣ Users think about Pages‣ Pages with only blocks‣ Publishing workflow doesn’t include

block placements


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Block References‣ Block reference fields to emulate

regions‣ “Landing page” node types for each

page layout‣ Can be combined with other

methods (context, core block module, etc.)


Block reference fields


Text fields


Block Reference fields


Context


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Data Visualizations


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Libraries‣ jqPlot‣ jqplot.com

‣ The Jit‣ thejit.org

‣ High Charts‣ highcharts.com


http://www.jqplot.com/

http://www.jqplot.com/

http://thejit.org/

http://thejit.org/

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DataVis formatted

data

JSON


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DataVis formatted

data

JSON

DataVisAdapter

Javascript


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DataVis formatted

data

JSON

DrupalModule

PHP

DataVisAdapter

Javascript


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Do it with Drupal, 2011, Roger LópezTuesday, December 13, 2011

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Resources‣ Bean

http://drupal.org/project/bean

‣ OG Taskshttp://drupal.org/project/og_tasks

‣ DataViz Javascript Adaptershttp://github.com/treehouseagency/dataviz-adapters

‣ Data Visualization API for Drupalhttp://drupal.org/sandbox/LSU_JBob/1299606

‣ Treehouse Agency Bloghttp://treehouseagency.com/blog




http://github.com/treehouseagency/dataviz-adapters

http://github.com/treehouseagency/dataviz-adapters

http://drupal.org/sandbox/LSU_JBob/1299606

http://drupal.org/sandbox/LSU_JBob/1299606

http://treehouseagency.com/blog

http://treehouseagency.com/blog

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