Using Display Suite / Context to Build your Drupal Site

Using Display Suite / Context to Build your Drupal Site

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  Using Display Suiteand Context to build your Drupal Site Files/Slides/Exports: http://wetmo.re/dcwma-mww January 19, 2013 Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  About Me •Matt Wetmore – Mattwetmore.com – Currently work at ING U.S. in Windsor, CT – Using Drupal for 3 years – Twitter: @mwetmore – Central CT Drupal Meetup Organizer Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  What are wegoing to cover? • Display Suite – View Modes, Layouts, Fields, DS Extras, Using Views with Display Suite. – Will demo everything we have time for. • Context – Conditions / Reactions • Path, Taxonomy, Type, View / Block, Menu, Theme – Context Plugins (List) • Additional Modules to Extend Context – New Google Analytics Context Condition Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  What is DisplaySuite? • Display Suite allows you to position how your fields are displayed on nodes, views, forms, etc. This can be done without having to modify tons of template files. • There are stable versions of Display Suite for Drupal 6&7 • Going to show some different examples then what is presented in the Drupalize.me Display Suite videos. But those videos are great for future training/info: http://drupalize.me/series/display-suite-drupal-7 • Display Suite settings can be exported/imported Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  But what aboutPanels? • There are tons of ways to build a Drupal site, DS/Context is just one of those ways. • You can also use Panels with Display Suite and even Context, be sure to watch this excellent presentation from MediaCurrent on the topic: http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/webinar- drupal-modules-display-suite-context-views-panels Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Display Suite: Demo1 • Configuring View/Build Modes • Configuring Views to use View/Build Modes • Configuring Layouts – Layout types available Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Display Suite: Demo2 • Configuring Display Fields – Block Field – Dynamic Field – Custom Code Field Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Display Suite: Demo3 • Display Suite Extras! – Configuring Field Templates – Configuring Region to Block – Configuring View Mode per Node Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  What is theContext module? • Context Module != Panels Context • Context allows you to define specific conditions and your site can react to those conditions. • Context has a stable D6 version and a Beta D7 Version Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Context Module -Conditions • Conditions available by Default: – Context, Menu, Node Type, Taxonomy, Path, User Role, User Page, Views. – Different conditions allow you to use wildcards and ~ to exclude items. – Writing Condition Plugins: • http://wetmo.re/Y5Uv4r • http://wetmo.re/WGUwFo Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Context Module -Reactions • Reactions available by Default: – Blocks, Breadcrumbs, Menu, Theme • Demo of using Conditions and Reactions Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Context Module –Additional Modules • Modules are available to extend context. • Some of them are: – Context Keywords – Context Menu Block – Context HTTP Headers – Content GeoIP – Domain Context Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Context Module –Context_GA • New Drupal Context Plugin : context_ga • Extends Google Analytics Tokenizer to provide conditions for GA cookie values. – Needs Context, Token, GA Tokenizer, GA • Create conditions by Source, Campaign, Medium, Content, Term, # Times Visited • Code available on github (GitHub URL) • Quick Demo Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Central CT DrupalMeetup • ctdrupal.com • The Central CT Drupal Meetup meets the 3rd Tuesday every month, 7pm-9pm • Location: New Horizons Training Center, Bloomfield, CT • Future Free Training Saturdays being planned. Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
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  Resources • Slides/Files/Info – http://wetmo.re/dcwma-mww • Display Suite on Drupalize.me – http://bitly.com/bundles/mwetmore/3 • Context – http://bitly.com/bundles/mwetmore/2 Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore