Drupal case study: Behind the scenes of website of University of Tartu
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Story about migrating public website of one of the oldest universities in Europe from proprietary CMS to Drupal 7. Presented by Mekaia (http://mekaia.com) at DrupalCamp Baltics 2012 (http://www.drupalcamp.lv/).
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Drupal case study: Behind the scenes of website of University of Tartu
- 1. Behind the scenes University of Tartu Migrating from proprietary CMS to Drupal 7 René Lasseron DrupalCamp Baltics 2012
- 2. 18 emp 1 intern Tallinn Since 2000 3 500 emp 17 000 stud Tartu Since 1632
- 3. 1996 2001 2009
- 4. When we started • 80+ proprietary CMSin one multilingual sites • Funky navigation scheme • Fading technology and support
- 5. After 6 months • New live site on Drupal 7 • Mainlanguages site in 4 university • Fresh graphics and navigation • 70+migration waiting for sites still www.ut.ee
- 6. After 12 months • 6 additional sites migrated • Less bugs • 60+migration waiting for sites still
- 7. Scale and scope • 80+ sites in one Drupal installation • 300 daily content editors - 50 editors for main site - Each in 4..2 languages - 250 for other sites - One main site www.ut.ee - One central administrator - Other sites for Faculties, Institutes, - Colleges, other bodies Takes about two years to migrate • Volume them all after completing fist stage - 28 000 nodes on main site - 925 menu items - 20 000 document files in public folder • Integrationssystems 8 backend with
- 8. Login • Username/password against university’s central LDAP, combined with web service • Estonian ID-card and mobile-ID
- 9. User interface Few tools and content types • Most daily editors from features hidden • Few content types • Workbench
- 10. Re-worked tabs Add new sub-page - Menu and parent menu element gets created automatically
- 11. Re-worked tabs Add different content to the page, even different regions - Creates automatic relations using node reference
- 12. Re-worked tabs
- 13. Re-worked tabs Child Main node, defining the menu node, shown via view and node reference
- 14. There’s a module for that 350 modules used Multisite and Content editing Views and internalization and organizing layout - Domain Access (vs - CKeditor with custom - Webform with multisite) styles Clientside validation - Internalization - IMCE vs Media - Simple ads - Custom module for - Linkit - Views (31) allowing same alias in different sites - Diff and revisions - Display Suite - Transliteration - Autosave - Context (7) - Content lock - Panel (few) - Link checker - Menu firstchild - Automated logout
- 15. There’s a module for that 350 modules used Multisite and Content editing Views and internalization and organizing layout - Domain Access (vs - CKeditor with custom - Webform with multisite) styles Clientside validation - Internalization - IMCE vs Media - Simple ads - Custom module for - Linkit - Views (31) allowing same alias in different sites - Diff and revisions - Display Suite - Transliteration - Autosave - Context (7) - Content lock - Panel (few) - Link checker - Menu firstchild - Automated logout
- 16. There’s a module for that 350 modules used Multisite and Content editing Views and internalization and organizing layout - Domain Access (vs - CKeditor with custom - Webform with multisite) styles Clientside validation - Internalization - IMCE vs Media - Simple ads - Custom module for - Linkit - Views (31) allowing same alias in different sites - Diff and revisions - Display Suite - Transliteration - Autosave - Context (7) - Content lock - Panel (few) - Link checker - Menu firstchild - Automated logout
- 17. There’s a module for that 350 modules used Integration Other - Feeds with many patches - Features (13) - LDAP - Google CSE
- 21. Custom modules Others • Estonian ID-card and mobile-ID support • Italic titles Work in progress on publishing these on • User bulk operations drupal.org • Media support for www.uttv.ee
- 22. Public interface • Omega base theme - http://drupal.org/project/omega • HTML5/CSS3 • 960.gs 12 col grid • Nice “primary region” feature • Mobile adaptive • One theme for sub-sites sub-themes for main site,
- 23. What we struggled with Hierarchy and Access control • Trying to create mental hierarchy in Drupal • Menuaccess based user structure - It’s everywhere around us - Main site: 50 editors, 28 000 nodes, 4 languages • Persisting menusViews drilling down on when - - Failed with Workbench Access Waited for first release of Access Control Kit - Menu position http://drupal.org/project/ menu_position
- 24. What we struggled with File management • Need fortens ofplace to manage one thousands • IMCE of files with folder - Existing folder hierarchy hierarchy and access - Existing access control control - No paging • Media vs elFinder vs IMCE
- 25. What we struggled with Drupal UI with long and deep menus
- 26. What we struggled with Migration Preserve all - Content - Hierarchy and menus - Files - Users - User’s relation to content - Content ID’s - Aliases
- 27. What we struggled with Migration Automatweb - Highly hierarchical - Hundreds of content/object types - Content often combined #something# includes. Example: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello,'visitor #welcome(text# Please'download'#file(1#'or'see' #link(3#'or'send'us'some'feedback: #feedback(form#' #contacts(table# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 28. Deployment and performance • Development, test and live sites • Boost module • HTML and Google Page and Apache level • Kept in sync using Features, Git Yslow speed recommendations • Separateservers and MySQL HTTP
- 29. Who did it and what’s next • Professional customer • Tools such planner,Asana, Jira, Liquid as Git, • Mekaia: 12Project manager, backend Harvest, Google Docs, Skype programmers, 1 front- end coder. 7 persons during one year. • Pushing the limits with • Graphics design: Velvet 60 additional sites • IA: Kristjan Jansen • Contributing to drupal.org
- 31. Niine 11 Tallinn 10414 Estonia http://mekaia.com René Lasseron [email protected]