Many Drupal users are not logging in to public facing websites. Applications "inside the firewall" can be easily built and maintained by Intermediate Drupal administrators. These internal applications often have more complicated functionality and workflows than public-facing websites, with all the bells and whistles like responsive mobile design, Organic Groups, Workbench Moderation and more. We will begin with a brief overview of why one would choose Drupal and an overview of distributions commonly used, like OpenAtrium and Drupal Commons, and then give a case study of three custom-built internal websites: * Orange County Public Library "Orange Peel" * Proctors Theatre "Calendar and Help Tickets" * Chautauqua Institution "Intranet" We will give tips on estimating internal websites, maintaining them, adding new features, and share some wisdom from managers about the value of "rolling your own" internal web applications with Drupal. Finally, we will give some notes on integrating your Intranet with non-Drupal back-end applications. Ryan Price is an independent web developer, who upgraded two Drupal 5 Intranet sites to Drupal 7 for Proctors and Chautauqua. He is an 8-year Drupal veteran and co-hosts the DrupalEasy Podcast. Kristin Retaleato is a web developer for the Orange County Public Library System, and the maintainer of the Orange Peel.

1. Building Rich Internal Sites
Deciding Why, Content Strategy and Best Practices
Ryan Price
@liberatr
www.ryanpricemedia.com
www.drupaleasy.com
www.battideas.com
www.invisiblefrisbee.net

2. Ryan Price
8 Year Drupaller
Drupal Trainer, Podcaster, Mentor
Also:
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Theatre
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Improv
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Pottery
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Coworking
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Hacking / Arduino
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Game Design
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3. Case Studies
Proctors Intranet
Chautauqua Institution Calendar
OCLS “Orange Peel”
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4. Case Studies
Proctors Intranet
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Theatre in Schenectady, NY
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15 “rooms” for events/meetings
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Distribute resources
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Keep info. out of someone's brain
Help Tickets
Staff Directory
Existing Site
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5. Case Studies
Proctors Intranet
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Purchase Orders
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Node & Workflow State
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Staff Complaints from Patrons
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EntityForms
Help Tickets & IT Tickets
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Different fields = Different Content Type
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6. Case Studies
Chautauqua Institution Calendar
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Arts Festival in Lakewood, NY
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15 “venues” for events/rehearsals
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Distribute resources
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Keep info. out of someone's brain
Guest Calendar
Event Programs
Send info to the CHQ Daily Newspaper
Existing Site + Lotus Notes
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7. Case Studies
Chautauqua Institution Calendar
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Double Booking
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Resource Conflicts + Rules
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Lock down venues
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Rules that get activated in June
Dates mostly the same
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Rules (again)
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8. Case Studies
Orange County Library “Orange Peel”
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15 “branches” for staff / notices
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Alerts & Announcements – email all staff
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Role-based menus
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Staff Directory
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Lost & Found for all 15 branches
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Document Repository – Staff handbook, or collaboration
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Existing Site(s) + Backend Web Services
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Evanced – External Calendar XML
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Blogs – imported
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9. Orange County Library “Orange Peel”
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10. Orange County Library “Orange Peel”
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11. Orange County Library “Orange Peel”
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12. Orange County Library “Orange Peel”
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13. Tools of the Trade
Basic
Workbench
Print, Email, PDF
Workflow
Add on to Nodes
Helps keep content in different
“Sections”
Create a PDF of any page in Drupal
Organic Groups
Field Permissions
Keep content associated to groups
Access Control on a field level
Overkill for most people, unless you
really need Access Control
If you restrict a field in one place, it
becomes restricted everywhere
Create a Printer-friendly version
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14. Tools of the Trade
Basic
Date
Calendar
Field
Views
Good for storing, displaying is core
Only does display, not storage
Date, Date ISO, Date Timestamp
Views Templates
Date iCal
Feeds
Views
Importer
Adds display style for Feed type - can be
used with Calendar or by itself
Date
Needs Date iCal and Library
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15. Tools of the Trade
Rules
Resource Conflict
Sweet
Date
Date
Rules
Rules Components
Rules Form
Signup
Entity Registration
Date
Date
Sends Reminders
Bundles & Fields
Just one type
AWESOME: Commerce Registration
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16. Tools of the Trade
Flag
FullCalendar
Views
Not Really Views Friendly
Date
Javascript API
See also: EntityReference
Nice UI add-on, not recommended
Fuzzy Date
Migrate
Date
Date support built-in
“Circa 2006”
Optional Date Parts
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17. Even More Demo
Learn the Rules Framework
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Screencasts with Johan Falk
http://nodeone.se/en/learn-the-rulesframework
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18. Building Rich Internal Sites
Deciding Why, Content Strategy and Best Practices
Ryan Price
@liberatr
www.ryanpricemedia.com
www.drupaleasy.com
www.battideas.com
www.invisiblefrisbee.net

19. What Did You Think?
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20. See you Tomorrow!
Coding for a Cause
Work along some of the best Drupalistas we could find