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What is Page Manager?
Part of the Chaos tool suite (ctools)
– required by Views, Features, WYSIWYG, etc.
Handles delivering different pages to menu
requests
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What is Panels?
Allows a site administrator to create
customized layouts for multiple uses
Drag and Drop content manager
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Panels Modules
Panels
Core Display functions, required by all others
Mini panels
Creates Drupal Blocks with Panels layouts
Panels Nodes
Create nodes that are divided into areas with selectable
content - (@see Panelizer)
Panels In-Place Editor
Front-end Panels UI
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Other Related CTools Modules
Views content panes
Embeds Views in Panels
Custom content panes
Allows Manually Enter Content in Panels
Stylizer
Create custom styles for Panels
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Panels Terminology
Variants
Different Content and Layout for 1 Panel Page
Examples
– Different Node View for different Content
types
– Landing page that is different depending on
the role of view user
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Panels Terminology
Contexts
NOT the Module
Represent Drupal Objects: Nodes, Terms,
Users, etc.
Display on in Panes
or Control what is displayed
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Panels Terminology
Contexts - example
Node View Page
– Default Context Created by nid
– Term related to the node
– User: Author of the node