(training) How Drupal manages content: Hands-on training for Academics and Business people Plan and manage your Drupal projects with an understanding of the software's considerable capabilities. Out of the box, Drupal offers powerful methods for displaying, manipulating, acquiring and sharing content. If you need to make smart decisions about the content of a site, this workshop is for you.
See how Drupal lets you
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choose how and where content is displayed
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break content into its smallest divisible parts, then re-combine and present these parts in a variety of contexts and formats
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create relationships between disparate pieces of content
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automate acquisition of content from a variety of sources, including other websites and databases, and make the content on your site available to share in the same fashion. We'll get into concrete examples, including one involving large datasets.
Views is widely regarded as the most powerful tool for organizing content on Drupal sites. Both novice and expert level examples will be provided. One of the provided examples will use contextual filters in views to override how default search results are diplayed as well as demonstrate how to restrict the content displayed based on parameters the user chooses.
Come with your laptop and be ready to get your hands dirty. Note that this workshop spans multiple session blocks (2 hrs).