Overview
This course has been created for everyone interested in creating robust application with Drupal. It explains the “non-technical” site of Drupal, which allows you to build an application without any coding.
Requirements
Participants should be familiar with Drupal concepts like nodes, users, comments, terms and vocabularies.
Completion of Administering a Drupal Website course is recommended.
NO programming skills are required!
Course Outline
What Drupal can and cannot do out of the box?
- How to add extra field to Drupal nodes
- How to extend Drupal profiles
- How to put a couple of pieces on a single page?
- How to aggregate data
Adding extra fields to a node
- Standard field types (Text, Number, Node and User Reference)
- Widgets (Checkbox, Select List, Textfield)
- Contributed Field extension modules like email fields, date fields, etc….
Views
- Creating simple views with Views UI module
- Overriding views
- Views type and available extensions
- Dealing with relationships (nodereference and userreference fields)
Panels
- Creating pages with multiple content
- Panels basic options and definitions
- Panels displays, panel pages, panel nodes
- Mini panels
- Panels arguments
- Panels context
- Creating Master/details pages