Building a Drupal-driven Intranet
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The document discusses building an intranet for a library using Drupal. It outlines functional requirements like having a flexible system where all staff can easily edit content. Drupal is recommended as it has modules to support event management, images, forms, and custom content types. Lessons learned include thoroughly analyzing current and desired content, gaining buy-in through an oversight group, providing training, and spending time planning pages with staff.
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Building a Drupal-driven Intranet
- 1. Building a Drupal-driven Intranet Karen A. Coombs
- 3. Functional Requirements ✤ Flexible, Adaptable System ✤ Content easily editable by all ✤ Selective dissemination of information ✤ Replace many existing tools ✤ Wikis, internal blogs, listservs, some file shares ✤ Unify Authentication ✤ Able to incorporate external content
- 4. Drupal for Library Intranets ✤ Lots of modules to support our internal content ✤ Event ✤ Signup ✤ Image ✤ Web Forms ✤ Use CCK, Views for Custom Content Types ✤ Taxonomy to subdivide information ✤ Custom Feeds
- 5. Forms for Collecting Information
- 6. Events
- 7. Fund Codes
- 9. Feeds from other sites
- 10. Lessons Learned ✤ Analyzing current content and desired new content key ✤ Create group to oversee implementation helps with buy-in ✤ Training for staff critical ✤ Choosing between scaling back or buggy functionality difficult ✤ Have to spend lots of time with groups planning pages