1. OpenAcaDept – Drupal
distribution for building
academic departmental
websites
Vadim Mirgorod
@dealancer
dealancer@gmail.com
http://vmirgorod.name

2. Gold Sponsor of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

3. Silver Sponsors of
DrupalCamp Kyiv 2011

4. What is Drupal distribution?

Product

Framework

Open source project

5. What are main parts of Drupal
distribution?

Drupal

Drupal modules

Installation profile

Features

Custom modules and themes

Libraries

6. Why to use installation profile?

Installation wizard

Updates

Database

Development

Security

7. What are inside OpenAcaDept?
 Roles and permissions
 User profiles
 Content types
 Taxonomy
 Views, Contexts, Panels, Display suites
 front page, menus, breadcrumbs, URLs

8. Roles

Department staff

Alumnus

Student

Content editor

Content creator

9. User registration
 User fills fields that are common to all
roles
 User selects role he want to be
assigned
 User accepts terms and conditions
 User role is confirmed/declined by site
admin/editors.

10. User registration page

11. User profile

Each user have profile and url
associated with it

Users can edit own profiles

Profile fields depend on user
role

12. Faculty/Staff profile

13. Content types

Project

Academic paper

Event

Blog entry

Resource

14. Project

15. Academic paper

16. Event

17. Blog entry

18. Resource

19. References
Auth
or of
node
User
Academic Project
Paper
User
s

20. Taxonomy: vocabularies
Profile Project
 Academic Degrees  Customers
 Courses  Grants
 Positions  Research Topics
 Research Topics
Academic Paper
 Staff Roles
 Research Topics
 Specialties
 Scientific Journals
 Student Groups
Event
Blog
 Tags
 Event Admissions
Resource  Event Places
 Resource Categories  Event Audience
 Tags

21. Front page

22. Default menu structure

23. Views pages

People: Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni

Blog

Projects

Academic Papers

Events

Resources

24. Faculty/Staff page

25. Other features

Personal contact forms

Search

CAPTCHA on registration and comments

Mollom - antispam filter

26. Used modules
 Date  Taxonomy Manager
 Email  Superfish
 Link  Mollom
 References  Captcha
 Field Permissions  Terms of Use
 Node access user reference  Pathauto
 Node access node reference  Token
 Views  Chaos Tools
 Panels  Libraries
 Context  Administration Menu
 Display Suite  Backup and Migrate
 Realname  Advanced Help
 Apply For a Role  Devel

27. Development status
What is done? What are working on?

Design 
Installation profile

Configuration 
Custom modules

Little CSS 
Theming

Internationalization

28. Challenges

Profile translation

Hide fields depending on role of user which is
edited

Change order of the fields/tabs added to the
user edit form by other modules

Features

29. Join our development team!
We will be happy yo invite you to our team if you are
 Module Developer
 Graphic Designer
 Beta Tester
 Translator

30. Thanks!
Questions?
Feedback
Vadim Mirgorod
dealancer@gmail.com
@dealancer
http://vmirgorod.name