managing content in drupal with workbench

Managing Content in Drupal with Workbench

Katie Staveley

Acquia

George DeMet & Steve Persch

Palantir.net

Managing Content in Drupal with Workbench George DeMet and Steve Persch Palantir.net

About Palantir.net •  Founded in 1996; working with Drupal since

2006 •  Web strategy, design, and development firm •  Team of senior-level Drupal and Web experts •  Leading contributors to Drupal core,

contributed modules, and community •  Enterprise Select Acquia Partner

Why Workbench? •  Drupal lacked an out-of-the-box unified

interface for workflow, moderation, and access control. •  Many organizations have multiple content

managers with different levels of responsibility and technical expertise •  Workbench enables content managers to

focus on their content, not on learning how to use Drupal

Public vs. Administrative

http://drupal.org

Drupal 7 administrative theme

Stock Drupal 7 content page

The main Workbench module

Workbench Modules • Workbench • Workbench Moderation • Workbench Access •  Workbench Files and Media (not covered today)

Alternative create content page

Workbench Moderation

Changed to

“Forward Revisions”

Additional default Views

Workbench Access Sections content for administrators

Museum’s Whale Songs kiosk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Humpback_stellwagen_edit.jpg

• Physically in the gift shop • Publicly listed with gift shop on website • Administratively still an “exhibit”

Workbench Access hierarchy •  The University

•  College of Arts and Sciences •  English Department •  Biology Department

•  Student genome blog •  Psychology Department

•  School of Medicine •  Dentistry •  Nursing •  General Medicine

The Millennium Falcon Blog

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/06/han-and-chewie-watercolor-for-han-and.html

The Millennium Falcon culture • Decisions made quickly • Deep trust between Han and Chewbacca •  They have some specialized tasks

• Roles aren’t enforced with overt structure

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/06/han-and-chewie-calvin-and-hobbes-for.html

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/10/cool-han-solo-by-target.html

No need for Workbench Access •  There are no internal divisions

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/06/han-and-chewie-art-weekends.html

Same Drupal roles

Standard Workbench Moderation

The Rebel Alliance Blog

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/04/cool-x-wing-crew-star-wars-art.html

Rebel culture culture • Relatively flat organization • High profile, in demand leaders •  Lots of turn over

•  Trusting yet suspicious • Specialization

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/03/fun-princess-leia-ad-art-on-star-wars.html

Stock “My Workbench”

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/02/jabba-presents-nice-r2-spray-paint.html

Front-end taxonomy

Big-name bloggers “Traps and how to avoid them”

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/03/admiral-ackbar-portrait.html

Rebel Gatekeepers

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/01/fun-endor-postcard-love-c3p0s-man-purse.html

Workbench Moderation states

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/04/awesome-realistic-obi-wan-kenobi-star.html http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/03/c3po-art-continuous-line-drawing-on.html http://www.starwarsart.org/2009/11/star-wars-character-bio-of-day-wicket_25.html

Dra$ Needs Review

Published

The Empire Blog

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/04/awesome-tie-pilot-from-behind.html

Imperial culture • Highly structured • Strict hierarchy • Monolithic to outsiders

http://www.starwarsart.org/2012/01/awesome-retro-star-wars-art-empire.html

Workbench Access sections Maps directly to Empire hierarchy

Workbench Moderation states Maps directly to user roles

Notifications through Rules (dev version)

Override with Panels

The Emperor wants to know all

Moff ‘My Workbench’

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/09/awesome-emperor.html

Upcoming Workbench Moderation features • Nonlinear approvals •  Fields on the state change itself •  Varying workflows on arbitrary conditions

• Ctools-powered exportability

“The more you tighten your grip, the more nodes will slip through your fingers”

http://www.starwarsart.org/2011/03/cool-empire-sb-star-wars-art.html

Thanks! • George DeMet •  [email protected] "

• Steve Persch •  [email protected] "

•  Visit us at www.palantir.net •  Follow us on Twitter: @palantir

Acquia is Hiring

•  Do you love working with Drupal?

•  Acquia is hiring in North America and Europe •  Engineering

•  Design

•  Client Advisors

•  Sales and Marketing

•  Finance and Operation

http://acquia.com/careers

Questions

Acquia: http://www.acquia.com

Contact: [email protected] or 888.9.ACQUIA

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Today’s webinar recording will be posted to: http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars

Palantir.net: www.palantir.net

George DeMet: [email protected]

Steve Persch: [email protected]

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