drupalcamp london 2015: improving the cms user experience

Paul Rowell

Improving The CMS User Experience

Things to consider

Often CMS users are left with only the basic tools to manage their site.

The forgotten user

Who will be using it?• Teams• Individuals

Who?

What do they want to do:• Daily• Weekly• Monthly

What?

What else does this person/team do?

Priority?

Theme and navigation

Admin theme

Making use of the Adminimal theme CMS users are now given a cleaner, clearer experience when using Drupal.

http://adminimal.netsite.gr

Admin navigation

Navbar provides CMS users with a responsive administration menu allowing easier navigation across all devices.

https://www.drupal.org/project/navbar

Content Management

Admin views• Overrides default view• VBO allows bulk operations• Additional operations can be

added• Drupal 8 core• Filter and search• Also includes comments

https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_views

Content overviews

Workbench• Overview page• Replacement for dashboard• Available hooks

https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench

Content overviews cont.

Workbench Moderation• Multiple states• Transitions• Permission based

https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench_moderation

Revisioning

• Content Managers/Editors view• Multiple places to moderate

content• Easy to see what state content is in

Revisioning cont.

• Webform Default Fieldshttps://www.drupal.org/project/webform_default_fields

• Options elementhttps://www.drupal.org/project/options_element

• Spam – Honeypothttps://www.drupal.org/project/honeypot

• Default select lists options

Webforms

File Management

• Media module• File content page• Bulk upload• YouTube

https://www.drupal.org/project/media

Media

Fields

• Multiselecthttps://www.drupal.org/project/multiselect

• Term reference treehttps://www.drupal.org/project/term_reference_tree

• Select with stylehttps://www.drupal.org/project/select_with_style

• Simple hierarchical selecthttps://www.drupal.org/project/shs

Select lists

Cropping• Comparison: https://www.drupal.org/node/1179172https://www.drupal.org/project/focal_pointhttps://www.drupal.org/project/manualcrop

Multiple Upload• File and Image widgethttps://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_filefield_widgethttps://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_imagefield_widget

Image

• Conditional fieldshttps://www.drupal.org/project/conditional_fields

• GMaphttps://www.drupal.org/project/gmap

• Linkithttps://www.drupal.org/project/linkit

• Help text

Other…

Questions?

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