This article describes a known issue in Drupal Enterprise and Drupal Lite.
Resources
How-Tos
There are many avenues for getting assistance with your Drupal site.
Vocabularies include terms. Terms add organizational data to pages and uploaded files, often referred to as metadata.
Your role in Drupal may not have the proper permissions to complete this task. Contact your site administrator for additional information.
As a site administrator or developer for a Drupal Enterprise website, you can add a link to your site's footer for users to report a website accessibility concern.
This article applies to websites built using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise configuration.
When developing a website using the University's Drupal Enterprise service, there are many best practices you should follow.
Folwell is an evolving design system made up of modular components that can be combined in numerous ways to make creative and consistent University websites.
The University's standard Drupal installation includes a number of modules that you can enable and disable in the Drupal interface.
Your Drupal site will consist of three environments:
University of Minnesota site owners who want to move their sites to the University of Minnesota Drupal service need to complete some tasks before the move can occur.
The second step in planning to move a website to the University's Drupal service is to perform a content audit.
The third step in planning to move a website to the University's Drupal service is to review your site's design.
The first step in planning your site to the University's Enterprise Drupal service is to document your requirements.
The final step in planning to move a website to the University's Drupal service is to schedule the content migration. Steps for scheduling a move from external content management systems to Drupal are below.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise configuration.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise configuration .Your role in Drupal may not have the proper permissions to complete the task.
View displays have three categories of criteria for generating an automated list: Filter criteria, Sort criteria, and Display criteria.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise or Drupal Lite configuration.
For some Drupal developers at UMN, no local development environment is necessary to work on their site.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise configuration.
Database
Acquia Cloud makes a daily backup of each database and keeps it for three days.
Drupal.org site's Drupal Overview page explains the basics of how Drupal works.
The instructions in this article pertain to Drupal Enterprise. Your role in Drupal may not have the proper permissions to complete the task. Contact your site administrator for additional information.
This article applies to websites built using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise configuration.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise configuration.
A Google Slide can be embedded in a page. The Slides need to be published to the web so that visitors can view the presentation on the page.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
A small Google Map can be added to a page using a Custom Block.
You must have the Contributor role to add custom blocks to a page.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
Vocabularies include terms. Terms add organizational data to pages and uploaded files, often referred to as metadata.
Layout Builder is a tool that is used to change the layout of a page and / or rearrange the default content blocks.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
There are three content types in Drupal Lite: Biography, General, and News/Blog. Each has a set of default fields and layout.
In Drupal Lite, you can add any page to navigation menu that appears at the top of a page.
To manage people on a site, you must have the Access Manager role. If you do not see People in the admin menu, contact the site owner.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
Only the Site Owner role has the ability to change the site name.
The Google Custom Search Engine module will be available for Drupal Lite sites on December 12, 2018.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
There are three default content types in Drupal Lite:
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
A General Page is one of the default content types in Drupal Lite.
A News/Blog is one of the default content types in Drupal Lite.
Many sites on the internet publish their content as news feeds. In your Drupal Lite site, you can define a source for a feed and add it as custom content to a page.
A Google Doc can be embedded in a page. The Doc needs to be published to the web so that visitors can view the presentation on the page. Sharing does not need to be enabled.
A Google Sheet can be embedded in a page. The Sheet needs to be published to the web so that visitors can view the presentation on the page. Sharing does not need to be enabled.
In Drupal Lite, Folwell Components are configured blocks that use the Folwell design system.
To log in to your Drupal Lite site, use either:
[yoursitename].umn.edu/saml_login
[yoursitename].umn.edu/login
(where "yoursitename" is the name of your site)
This article contains information about:
Access to edit the display of a content type requires the following roles:
Breadcrumbs or a breadcrumb trail is a secondary navigation system that indicates to a user where they are within a site and how they got there.
Anyone that has the role Content Type Manager can edit the content types for a site. To remove a field from a content type, it must be removed from the layout editor for the content type first.
Anyone who has the Access Manager role can cancel any account.
This article applies to Drupal Lite.
When your site is created, it does not have a default homepage. You can set any page to be your site's home page.
Folwell Tabs Wrappers can be used to create a tabbed interface on a page. Using Tabs Wrappers can make the content easier to navigate.
Tables are used to organize and display data sets grouped in rows.
Drupal Lite has five default user roles:
Each content type has a default layout for presenting the fields. Using Layout Builder allows for the customization of any page. Layout Builder can be used to:
Tags are added to content to classify it.
Applies to Drupal Enterprise and Drupal Lite.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal configuration.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise or Drupal Lite configuration. The ability to add users to your site is based on your role.
Curious where your site's traffic is coming from or how people navigate around your site? You can add Google Analytics to your site to help monitor its traffic.
University units moving to Drupal will be able to hire consultants through University-wide contracts.
This article contains instructions for UMN Drupal site editors and site owners to perform URL redirects on their UMN Drupal site.
There are four types of hyperlinks you can create when editing text in a field that has the formatting toolbar.
This article will help you determine which version of Drupal your site is in. As of June 2019, there are four possibilities at the University of Minnesota:
Paragraphs is a module in Drupal. It is included in the University's Enterprise Drupal 8.
The following instructions are for OIT Drupal websites that want to use a custom code repository.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise or Drupal Lite configuration.
The following instructions are for websites using the default UMN Drupal Enterprise or Drupal Lite configuration.
The Media Browser allows you to reuse existing media on your website, upload new media, or embed media from an external website. The Media Browser appears wherever you can add media to a page.
On its own, Drupal produces a brand new copy of each webpage every time that page is viewed.
Description
All media uploaded via the Drupal interface is stored in your site's files. Because of this, you can easily re-use images and other media on many pages.
This article applies to Drupal Enterprise and Drupal Lite. This action is only available to people with certain roles on the site. If you do not see the Content Type menu item, contact the Site Owner.
There are several ways to add images to a page. These instructions are for contributors who need to add an image within a field that has the HTML editor toolbar.
The UMN Search Settings module comes with default configurations on all Drupal Lite sites. There are also some configuration options available to customize the search experience on your site.
The UMN Search Settings module comes with default configurations on all sites that use Drupal Enterprise and Drupal Lite.
Curious where your site's traffic is coming from or how people navigate around your site? You can add Google Analytics to your site to help monitor its traffic.
Resources
This resource shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version that illustrates radical redesign is not needed to meet accessibility standards.
UMN Drupal Training Opportunities
Drupal Working Labs
We offer working sessions that allow participants to bring their own Drupal Enterprise 7, Drupal Enterprise 9, and Drupal Lite projects into a
Modules are certain add-ons that you can use within your website to extend the functionality of Drupal.
Smaller and local Drupal community conference
A dynamic and responsive group of Drupal users world-wide communicate regularly in the Drupal.org community forums.
Drupal Lite sites are automatically backed up on a nightly basis.
The Paragraphs module is a fairly new addition to the Drupal project, but when it comes to content creation, it offers a rapid and straightforward path towards improving the quality of your products.
Acquia Dev Desktop 2 allows you to install, test, and build Drupal sites locally on your Mac or Windows PC.
This information pertains to groups that are planning to do custom development within Drupal. Custom development includes:
Information on the Drupal Conference and larger Drupal community
In your github fork, you need to keep your master branch clean, by clean I mean without any changes, like that you can create at any time a branch from your master.
This tutorial will teach you how to create two branches (master and develop) and how to merge code from the development stage to production.
Get more information about higher educational institutions that have faced liability for inaccessible web content and technologies.
This article offers a great explanation of how disabilities can affect use of the web.
Members of the University of Minnesota community who use Drupal Lite may request enhancements or changes to the Drupal Lite platform, base theme, modules, support site documentation, or communications
University Relation's website on University of Minnesota brand standards for web and print.
This site, maintained by University Relations (URelations), provides downloadable files containing offical University of Minnesota logos, wordmarks ("Driven to Discover"), seals, and other official branding elements s
University Relation's web page on University of Minnesota web standards, and usability and accessibility related to the Univesity of Minnesota web templates.
This site, maintained by University Relations (URelations), provides downloadable images for social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+; as well as common icons for RSS feeds and
Learn about United States laws that require that State and local governments (including the University) give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all of their programs, services, and act
Before completing the Drupal Site Request Form for a Drupal Enterprise site, please think through the following considerations.
University of Minnesota departments and colleges may use the University's Drupal Lite content management platform to publish and maintain web content related to conducting official University business.
Section 504 bars any entity that receives federal funding from discriminating against individuals with disabilities based on their disability status.
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) provides standards excerpted from Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. It can help you understand how to apply the law in a web content setting.
Section 508 is important because it established the first web accessibility standard.
This article explains how the Web affects the lives of people with disabilities.
An overview of how to structure your content for online reading.
This rubric is intended for Drupal Enterprise sites. Testing should be conducted in the stage environment.
Themes make Drupal websites beautiful – and Themes are the bridge between the science of code and the art of design.
Developed by WebAIM.org, this tool provides visual feedback about the accessibility of your web content by injecting icons and indicators into your page.
If you are a website designer. this simple checklist is a great reference that's worth posting in your workspace.
Utah State University's Center for Persons with Disabilities' WebAIM Program provides an impressive slate of accessibility tools.
This checklist is a simplified version of the full Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 for the layperson.
Self-Help Guides
Content is one of the main components of a great user experience. This self-help guide walks you through the process of planning the right content to meet your website's goals.
This self help guide is designed to assist developers that are creating sites using the University of Minnesota's Drupal Enterprise platform.
This self-help guide is for building a site in Drupal Lite, including requesting and configuring your site, adding content to your site, and managing your site.
This Self-Help Guide is intended to assist developers that are going to develop within the University of Minnesota Drupal environment.
This guide is for configuring and using Google Custom Search Engine with University websites.