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  • GovCMS8 Site Building Training Manual
  • Contributing and Feedback Guide
  • Software and module requirements
  • UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
    • Overview
    • Layout of a GovCMS page
    • Regions in GovCMS
    • Planning your site
    • About our client
    • Understanding requirements
    • Audience analysis
    • User (visitor) personas
    • Define user stories
    • Roles and Permissions
      • Exercise 1.1: Configure account settings
    • Blocks in GovCMS
      • Exercise 1.3: Place Welcome message block
    • Site navigation
    • Footers
      • Exercise 1.4: Build the related links menu
      • Exercise 1.5: Assign the related links menu block to a region
      • Exercise 1.6: Configure the related links menu block
      • Exercise 1.7: Rearrange the main menu
    • Theme settings
      • Exercise 1.8: Change the logo
      • Exercise 1.9: Create a friendly error page
    • Unit 1 Summary
  • UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT
    • Designing and planning content
      • Exercise 2.1: Compare content types
    • Planning your site structure
    • Planning data entry and display
    • Discussion
      • Exercise 2.2: Design a content type in minutes
      • Exercise 2.3: Create a content type
    • Add and configure fields
      • Exercise 2.5: Modify an existing field
      • Exercise 2.6: Add a custom text field
      • Exercise 2.7: Review the field list report
    • Manage form display
      • Exercise 2.8: Testing content types
    • Unit 2 Summary
  • UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA
    • Manage Media
    • Customise image display with image styles
    • Review configuration of image media display
      • Exercise 3.1: Example use of image styles
      • Exercise 3.2: Add and configure a media field
      • Exercise 3.3 (Challenge): Change image size
    • Unit 3 Summary
  • UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT
    • Taxonomy - Categorising content
      • Exercise 4.1: Add new Vocabulary
      • Exercise 4.2: Add Taxonomy field to content types
    • About input options
      • Exercise 4.3: Add fields to content types
      • Exercise 4.4: Test the new vocuabulary
    • Editorial considerations
    • Prepare documentation for new staff onboarding
    • Content creation forms
    • Unit 4 Summary
  • UNIT 5: TEXT FORMATS AND RICH TEXT
    • Text formats and rich text
      • Exercise 5.1 (Optional): Set up the Rich Text editor
      • Exercise 5.2 (Challenge): Create a new text format
    • About cross-site scripting
    • Text formats
    • Unit 5 Summary
  • UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
    • Content listing with Views
      • Exercise 6.1: Build the employment news view
    • Views - Part 2
      • Exercise 6.3: A customised News and Media page
      • Exercise 6.4: Reuse a Views template
    • Related content by term
      • Exercise 6.5: Make a list of States/Territories block
      • Exercise 6.6: Build the related content block
      • Exercise 6.7: Configure data field and Event content type
      • Exercise 6.8 (Challenge): Extend Content type
      • Exercise 6.9: Modify an event listing for future dates
    • Customize the content administration experience
      • Exercise 6.10: Administration with View bulk operations
    • Unit 6 Summary
  • UNIT 7: URL ALIASES
    • URL Aliases
      • Exercise 7.1: URL aliases - Patterns
    • URL Redirects
      • Exercise 7.2: Configure redirects
      • Exercise 7.3: Breadcrumbs
    • Menu check
    • Unit 7 Summary
  • UNIT 8: SITE BUILDING EXERCISES
    • Site building exercices workshop
    • Extend content types with new fields
      • Exercise 8.1: Add an external link field
    • Agency reference link
      • Exercise 8.2: Create Agency References
    • Job list dropdown filter
      • Exercise 8.3: Configure the job listing
      • Exercise 8.4: Agency logo in Job Posting view
      • Exercise 8.5: Challenge exercises
    • Discussion
    • Views contextual filters
      • Exercise 8.6: Add About author block to News article
    • Further discussion and exercices
    • Employee list and custom profiles
      • Exercise 8.7: Set up profile fields
      • Exercise 8.8: Create a list of users
      • Exercise 8.9: Edit the existing view to filter out roles
      • Exercise 8.10: Create a custom layout
      • Exercise 8.11 (Challenge): An image gallery
    • Unit Summary
    • Discussion
  • UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT
    • Search and related content
      • Exercise 9.1: Explore the default search
      • Exercise 9.2: Set up Job posting content type display in global search
      • Exercise 9.3: Create new search page with Search API
      • Exercise 9.4: Add fields to the index
      • Exercise 9.5: Extend the search with Facets
    • Unit Summary
  • UNIT 10: SITE PERFORMANCE
    • Overview
    • Planning for Peformance
    • Define Goals and Requirements
    • Review current issues and bottlenecks
    • Other performance considerations
    • Unit 10 Summary
    • Glossary of terms
    • Appendices
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A complete list of Drupal terminology is listed on Drupal.org:

Block
Blocks are a method for positioning data within a page.

Book

A Drupal module to connect pages in a hierarchical sequence, perhaps with chapters, sections or subsections.

Contrib

The set of contributed modules shared on Drupal.org or any you select to use.

Core

Drupal default files and modules included with the project download.

d.o

Short for Drupal.org

Field

Fields are elements of data that can be attached to a node or other Drupal entity. Fields commonly contain text, image, or terms.

g.d.o

Short for Drupal.org

Input format

These are settings that define the filtering of user-entered text before it is displayed This can be used to control formatting or malicious input.

Menu

Refers to the navigation elements on a page, and to Drupal's internal system for handling requests. When a request is sent to Drupal, the menu system uses the provided URL to determine what functions to call.

Module

A module is a software (code) that extends Drupal features and functionality. Contributed modules can be downloaded from Drupal.org. They are not backward compatible. Modules for Drupal 6 will not work on Drupal 5. But often upgrade paths are available that don’t break data.

Node

A piece of content in Drupal, typically corresponding to a single page on the site, that has a Title an optional Body, and perhaps additional fields. Every node also belongs to a particular [https://www.drupal.org/node/937] for example polls, stories, and book pages.

Path

In Drupal terms, the path is the unique, last part of the URL for a specific function or piece of content. For instance, for a page whose full URL is http://example.com/?q=node/7, the path is node/7.

Path alias

This changes default paths such as node/7 into user-friendly paths such as about/contact. With certain modules these can be automated.

Permissions

Controls user access to content creation, modification and site administration at the application level in Drupal through roles. This also refers to security settings for files at the operating system level.

Taxonomy

Enables authorized users to categorize content using both tags and administrator-defined terms.

Template

A file that is mostly HTML with some special PHP code to substitute in values provided by an engine.

Users and Roles

Everyone using your site is a user with a user ID. The first user ID (uid) of a Drupal site (uid=1) automatically receives all permissions, no matter what role that user belongs to. Any anonymous user has uid=0. Users are assigned roles that control what they can do. For example ‘editor’ or ‘member’, and permissions can be set for those roles.

Views

Popular contributed module allowing site developers a simple graphical interface for modifying the presentation of content. Views permits selection of specific fields to display, filtration against various node attributes, choice of basic layout options (ie. list, full nodes, teasers, etc.), and other advanced details.

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a method in which content is edited and formatted by interacting with an interface that closely resembles the final product.

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