Category: drupal

Drupal – User Management ”; Previous Next User Management manages the information of the user, which allows creating or deleting the user, changing passwords, time and roles. Following are the simple steps to manage the users in Drupal. Step 1 − Click People –> Permissions Tab. In Permission tab, you can view two more tabs i.e. Permissions and Roles as shown in the preceding screen. Permission This section is related to posting content permission. It contains the following types of permission − Block − Sets permission to view, create, enable and disable the blocks. Comment − Sets permission to users to view, edit, post comment or skip comment approval. Contextual links − Sets permission to use contextual link to perform action related to elements on a page. Dashboard − Sets permission to allow users to view and make changes in the dashboard. Filter − Permission to filter the amount of roles and permission on the site. Image − Permission to create or modify the styles of images. Menu − Allows permission to access menu items and create menu through the admin interface. Node − Allows to manage the view, edit and delete permissions for content type. Overlay − Sets permission to display administrative page as a layer over the current page. Path − Sets permission to access path to all pages of Drupal site. Search − Sets permission to use normal and advanced search. Shortcut − Allows permission to set the shortcut toolbar on top of the page. System − Permission is granted to administer site configuration, view the themes, site reports, etc. Taxonomy − Permission to set the vocabularies and terms, and also to edit and delete terms in tags. Toolbar − Allows permission to access the administration toolbar. User − Sets permission to individual users without assigning any special role to provide an interface. Roles It allows to set permissions for group of users by defining there roles. Here you can create the roles and edit permissions for each user. Anonymous user − Allows user to access your website without asking them for the username or password. Authenticated user − Allows only those users to access your website, who are authenticated to use it. Administrator − User who is responsible to manage the complete website and allow users to create or view by his permission. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Create Content ”; Previous Next In this chapter, let us study about Creating content. In Drupal, content type defines the style in which contents are collected and displayed. When you install Drupal, by default two content types will be fixed and they are Articles and Basic page. When you enable other core and contributed modules by visiting Modules you can also use other content types. Following are the simple steps used for creating content. Step 1 − Click Content as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − Click on Add content as shown in the following screen. Step 3 − You can choose any of the content type. We shall take Basic page as we have already studied about Articles and Blog entry. Click Basic page as shown below in the following screen. Step 4 − Next, you will see the screen as shown in the following screen. You can add content to the page and click the Save button to save the content. Following are the details about the fields present in the preceding screen. Title − It specifies the title of the page. Body − Write the content of your page. Menu setting − It allows you to provide a menu link. Revision Information It provides an explanation of the changes you are making. URL path settings − It allows you to optionally define an alternative URL, by which your content can be accessed. Comment Setting − It allows users to send their comments depending upon the permission you set that is Open or closed. Authorizing information − It specifies the author information. Publishing options − It permits you to promote your content to the front page and stick your content on top of the list on the front page. Step 5 − Finally, you can see your page will be created and displayed similar to the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – URL Alias ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Drupal URL Alias. URL or Uniform Resource Locater Aliases is a page address on your web page, it changes the existing system path to new path alias. Following are the simple steps to create URL Aliases in Drupal. Step 1 − Click Configuration as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − Click on URL aliases. Step 3 − Then, click Add alias. Step 4 − The Url aliases page will get displayed as shown in the following screen. Following are the details about the fields present in URL aliases page. Language − Specifies the language to be used in URL aliases. Existing system path − Existing system path of an Article/Page in Drupal site. Path alias − New path alias that replaces with the existing system path of an Article/Page. Click the Save button. Step 5 − You can view your created URL aliases in the list as shown in the following screen. Step 6 − When you go back to Drupal Admin panel and hover over Article, it will display the newly added Path alias at the left bottom of the screen as shown in the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Create Blog ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Create Blogs in Drupal. Blog entries can be made public or private, for the site members, depending on which roles have access to view content. Following are the simple steps used for creating Drupal Blogs. Step 1 − Click on the Modules as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − Next, Check the box of Blog to install it. Enable the Blog module and click Save configuration as shown in the following screen. Step 3 − Now, click Content as shown in the following screen. Step 4 − Click on Add content. Step 5 − Click on Blog entry. Step 6 − You can add the content to blog as shown in the following screen and click Save. Following are the details about the fields present in the preceding screen. Title − It displays the title of the blog. Body − It displays the content of the body. Publishing options − It allows you to publish your blog content on Front Page or you can stick at top of lists as per the demand. Step 7 − Once you are done, you will see your post on home page. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Main Menu ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to Create Menus in Drupal. Menus are very important to easily navigate in your website. Menus offer a set of links that helps you navigate. The Drupal menu allows you to add, remove and rename the menus and menu items. Following are the simple steps to create menus in Drupal. Step 1 − Click Structure → Menus as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − Click on Add menu option to add menu. Step 3 − Fill in the required details as shown in the following screen. Title − It displays title in the Administrator Menu bar. Description − Enter a brief description about the menu. The description field will display only in the admin dashboard under the menu list, but it does not display any information to site visitors. After filling all the information about the menu, click on Save button to save your created menu bar. Step 4 − Once you save the menu bar, the following screen will get displayed. Here you have to define the path link to your created menu page. Click Add link as shown in the following screen. Step 5 − The created Menu 1 page gets displayed as shown in the following screen. It contains below fields − Menu link title− Specify the name of the menu item. Path − Specify the URL path of the page which you want to display. Description − Description about the menu link. Enabled − It enables the item to display on menu. Show as expanded − If it consists of sub menus, then it will be displayed under the parent menu item. Parent Link − It sets the main structure of menu. Weight − Sets the order of menu items. After filling all the information about the menu link, click the Save button, this will save your Menu link. Step 6− Now the following screen pops up. Step 7 − Click Structure → Menus to get the following screen. Here, you will see the created Menu 1 name in the list of Menus. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Comment ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Comments in Drupal. You can enable or disable the comments on your website. You can control, who can comment on your website”s content and who can manage those comments. Following are the simple steps to configure comments in Drupal. Step 1 − Go to Structure and click Content types as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − Click on Edit link that you would like to change the comment setting. Step 3 − Click Comment settings category as shown in the following screen. Step 4 − Select open from the drop-down menu under Default comment setting for new content. This will allow comments on your website. Click the Save Content type button to save your configuration settings. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Delete Content ”; Previous Next In this chapter, let us study about Deleting content. You can delete any of the previously written content such as Articles, Basic page and Blog entry. Following are the simple steps used to delete content. Step 1 − Click the Content. Step 2 − You can delete About us (About us page was created in the chapter Drupal – Create Content), and click the delete tab as shown in the following screen. Step 3 − Next, you will see the following screen. You need to confirm deletion of the content. Click the Delete button if you want to delete or Cancel button if you want to cancel the process. Step 4 − Immediately, you will see a confirmation message as your page has been deleted, as shown in the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Static Pages ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about how to create Static Pages in Drupal. Let”s add some static pages named About Us and Services. The main purpuse for using a static pages is speed and steadiness. Static websites are more faster than a dynamic site. Following are the simple steps to create static page. Step 1 − Click Content –> Add content link. Step 2 − Click on Basic pages. Step 3 − Create basic page will get displayed as shown in the following screen. Following are the details of the fields present in the above screen. Title − It specifies the title of the static page. Body − It displays the body content of the page. URL path settings − You can specify alternative URL by which content can be accessed. Note − Don”t add slash at the end or beginning of the URL alias or else it will not work. You can see about-us URL path has been added under URL alias heading. The process is same for both About Us and Services static pages, only the content will be changed as per the demand. You can click Publishing options and check the box of published option to publish your page. Step 4 − Click on About Us tab, you will see the created about us page as shown in the following screen. Step 5 − Click the Services tab, you will see the created services page as shown in the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Drupal – Front Page ”; Previous Next In this chapter, let us study how to create Front Page in Drupal. If you have good content on your website and expect your visitor to see that particular content first, then that article must be on the front page. Drupal provides solution for this. Following are the simple steps used for creating Drupal Front Page. Step 1 − Click Content as shown in the following screen. Step 2 − A list of articles and pages pop up on screen. Click edit link as shown in the following screen. Step 3 − Then, click Publishing option and check mark all the boxes as shown in the following screen. Following are the functions of the checkboxes on the page − Published − Publish your page or article by marking the check box Promoted to front page− Promote your page or article, to the front page of your website. Sticky at top of lists− Fixes your page at top of lists on your site. Click the Save button to save the changes. Step 4− You will see your page on the front page of your website similar to the following screen. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;