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Request a Drupal Enterprise Site
Before completing the Drupal Site Request Form for a Drupal Enterprise site, please think through the following considerations. If you have any questions you can contact a Drupal support team member by filling out a Drupal Support Request Form.
Consider the Installation Profile
- The UMN Standard installation profile provides the following Drupal modules and pre-configured settings:
- Content types
- Basic page
- Landing page
- Themes
- Base theme (Folwell) plus a sub-theme you can use as a starting point for further theming customizations
- Follows University branding and styles
- Responsive so that your site responds to tablet and mobile devices
- Navigation
- Provided in the header and sidebar that expands as you add to it
- Responsive “hamburger menu” (three horizontal bars) to access menu items at mobile at tablet screen widths
- Editorial user roles with permissions
- Upon installation, only the Administrator role is present. This role has access to the entire set of administration features provided by Drupal and can create other user roles as needed.
- Content types
Consider your Custom Development Needs
- If you are going to be doing custom development, you will need to provide the location of your git repository.
- Before submitting your Drupal site request, read over the information about preparing your git repository.
- Custom development includes:
- Coding your own sub-theme
- Developing your own modules
- Using contributed modules that are not part of the standard modules offered as part of the enterprise implementation
- Extend content types and other configuration settings provided by the installation profiles and export your changes to your repository using the Features module
Consider Your Site URL
- When requesting your Drupal site, you'll need to provide the production URL for your site which will be formatted as follows: sitename.umn.edu (NOT umn.edu/sitename)
- When your site is set up, you'll be given a development site. The url will be in the format of sitename.dev.umn.edu
- The DNS for the production URL will not be set up until your site is ready to launch
Request a Site
- Once you have collected this information, request your Drupal site by submitting the Drupal Site Request Form.
- If you have questions about Drupal, contact the Drupal support team using a Drupal Support Request Form.