The webinar discusses how to configure Drupal to organize content for multiple audiences by using audience selectors, altering the design and content presentation based on the audience, and using modules like Field Permissions and Context to customize the delivery of content for different user roles or sections of the site. The webinar is presented by Lisa Sawin from iFactory, an interactive design and development company based in Boston with over 20 years of experience working with higher education institutions.

1. Drupal: Organizing
Content for Multiple
Audiences
an iFactoryEd webinar

2. Who is iFactory?
• Based in Boston
• Interactive design and development company with over 20
years experience
• A division of RDW Group, a full-service agency
• Designers, strategic consultants, information architects,
usability experts, developers
• Higher ed profiles include:
colleges & universities | public & private
large & small | ivy league to community colleges
undergraduate & graduate | Massachusetts to California

3. Where to find us
www.ifactory.com
blog: interactivity.ifactory.com
Find us as iFactoryBoston:

4. What you’ll learn today:
• Configuring options for audience
selectors
• Implementing different designs to
distinguish areas of the site for each
audience
• Using the Field Permissions module to
deliver fine-grained customization of
content delivery

5. Your presenter
Lisa Sawin
Solutions Architect for iFactory

6. Tailor content &
presentation
• Can target users by
gateways, altering content and/or
design
• Lots of ways to handle it
• Drupal has tools to build all of these
ideas

7. Tailor content &
presentation
• Can target users by
gateways, altering content and/or
design
• Lots of ways to handle it
• Drupal has tools to build all of these
ideas

8. Tailor content &
presentation
• Can target users by
gateways, altering content and/or
design
• Lots of ways to handle it
• Drupal has tools to build all of these
ideas

9. Tailor content &
presentation
• Can target users by
gateways, altering content and/or
design
• Lots of ways to handle it
• Drupal has tools to build all of these
ideas

10. Audience gateways
• Group content for a specific
audience
• Style content to demarcate it from
areas of the site
• Present content for a specific user
type

11. Audience gateways
• Group content for a specific
audience
• Style content to demarcate it from
areas of the site
• Present content for a specific user
type

12. Audience gateways
• Group content for a specific
audience
• Style content to demarcate it from
areas of the site
• Present content for a specific user
type

14. Audience gateway
selectors
• Simple list of links in a block
• Javascript-enabled jump menu
• Javascript-enabled sliding panel

16. Audience gateway
selectors
• Simple list of links in a block
• Javascript-enabled jump menu
• Javascript-enabled sliding panel

18. Audience gateway
selectors
• Simple list of links in a block
• Javascript-enabled jump menu
• Javascript-enabled sliding panel

20. Audience gateway
selectors
• Simple list of links in a block
• Javascript-enabled jump menu
• Javascript-enabled sliding panel

23. Audience gateway
selectors
• Simple list of links in a block
• Javascript-enabled jump menu
• Javascript-enabled sliding panel

24. Altering the look & feel
• Simple section based on menu
tree: use automatic body classes
• More complex section: use
Context module

28. Altering the look & feel
• Simple section based on menu
tree: use automatic body classes
• More complex section: use
Context module

30. Altering the look & feel
• Simple section based on menu
tree: use automatic body classes
• More complex section: use
Context module

31. Altering the content
• Field Permissions for displaying
individual fields for specific roles
• Context module handles display of
blocks on a per-role or per-section
basis
• Custom context conditions for block
presentation based on page views

32. Altering the content
• Field Permissions for displaying
individual fields for specific roles
• Context module handles display of
blocks on a per-role or per-section
basis
• Custom context conditions for block
presentation based on page views

35. Altering the content
• Field Permissions for displaying
individual fields for specific roles
• Context module handles display of
blocks on a per-role or per-section
basis
• Custom context conditions for block
presentation based on page views

36. Altering the content
• Field Permissions for displaying
individual fields for specific roles
• Context module handles display of
blocks on a per-role or per-section
basis
• Custom context conditions for block
presentation based on page views

37. Altering the content
• Field Permissions for displaying
individual fields for specific roles
• Context module handles display of
blocks on a per-role or per-section
basis
• Custom context conditions for block
presentation based on page views

38. Tailor content &
presentation
• Can target users by
gateways, altering content and/or
design
• Lots of ways to handle it
• Drupal has tools to build all of
these ideas

39. www.ifactory.com
interactivity.ifactory.com
info@ifactory.com
617.426.8600
Find us as iFactoryBoston: