Drupal Enterprise Admin Guide

This self help guide is designed to assist developers that are creating sites using the University of Minnesota's Drupal Enterprise platform.

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Prepare to Develop

Prepare for Drupal

Learn about Drupal Enterprise
Understand Your Multiple Environments
Compare Tools for Creating a Website

Create Local Development Environment

Using Git
Git and GitHub Self-Help Guide
Drupal Enterprise: Set up a Local Environment

Request a Drupal Site

Request a Drupal Site
Managing Multiple Environments

Launch a Drupal Site

Launch Process

UMN Drupal Environment

Add Users to Your Site

User accounts in Drupal use shibboleth and the SAML authentication module

Default Drupal Roles
Add a User to Your Site
Add Roles to an Existing User
Remove Roles from an Existing User

Paragraphs Module

Drupal Paragraphs Tutorial
Paragraphs Documentation
Enable and Use Paragraphs

Accessibility

About Accessibility
Web Accessibility: Issues and Techniques
Web Accessibility for Designers
WAVE (Web Accessibility Evalution Tool)
Use Pope Tech
Find Content Accessibility Issues with Editoria11y
Use the Content Accessibility Issues Report

Drupal Themes

Theming and Front End Development with Drupal

Add a Module to a Site

How to Add a New Drupal Module to Your Site

Add UMN Data Integrations

Drupal Enterprise: UMN Data Integrations

Test Your Site

Drupal Enterprise: Set Up Your Local Repository for Automated Testing
Drupal Enterprise: Use Backstop for Visual Regression Testing
Drupal Enterprise: Use Cypress for End-To-End Functional Testing

Best Practices

Join Drupal Groups

Drupal UMN Platform Announcements
Click the Ask to Join group button
Join #Drupal Slack Channel
Drupal-L Mailing List
Click Subscribe in the right sidebar

Git and GitHub

How to Use Git Branches
GitHub - Work with Branches Effectively
Git: Create a new branch and manage branches
GitHub Cloud Transition

UMN Guidelines

UMN Brand Resources
University Online Privacy Statement
Folwell Web Theme Project Site

Development

Development Best Practices
Configuration Management