Using Display Suite / Context to Build your Drupal Site
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The document outlines a presentation by Matthew Wetmore about using the Display Suite and Context modules in Drupal for site building. It covers key features, settings, demonstrations of configuration, and how to extend functionality with additional modules. The session also highlights resources for further learning and mentions the Central CT Drupal Meetup for community engagement.
Using Display Suite / Context to Build your Drupal Site
- 1. Using Display Suite and Context to build your Drupal Site Files/Slides/Exports: http://wetmo.re/dcwma-mww January 19, 2013 Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 2. About Me • Matt Wetmore – Mattwetmore.com – Currently work at ING U.S. in Windsor, CT – Using Drupal for 3 years – Twitter: @mwetmore – Central CT Drupal Meetup Organizer Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 3. What are we going to cover? • Display Suite – View Modes, Layouts, Fields, DS Extras, Using Views with Display Suite. – Will demo everything we have time for. • Context – Conditions / Reactions • Path, Taxonomy, Type, View / Block, Menu, Theme – Context Plugins (List) • Additional Modules to Extend Context – New Google Analytics Context Condition Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 4. What is Display Suite? • Display Suite allows you to position how your fields are displayed on nodes, views, forms, etc. This can be done without having to modify tons of template files. • There are stable versions of Display Suite for Drupal 6&7 • Going to show some different examples then what is presented in the Drupalize.me Display Suite videos. But those videos are great for future training/info: http://drupalize.me/series/display-suite-drupal-7 • Display Suite settings can be exported/imported Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 5. But what about Panels? • There are tons of ways to build a Drupal site, DS/Context is just one of those ways. • You can also use Panels with Display Suite and even Context, be sure to watch this excellent presentation from MediaCurrent on the topic: http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/webinar- drupal-modules-display-suite-context-views-panels Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 6. Display Suite: Demo 1 • Configuring View/Build Modes • Configuring Views to use View/Build Modes • Configuring Layouts – Layout types available Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 7. Display Suite: Demo 2 • Configuring Display Fields – Block Field – Dynamic Field – Custom Code Field Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 8. Display Suite: Demo 3 • Display Suite Extras! – Configuring Field Templates – Configuring Region to Block – Configuring View Mode per Node Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 9. What is the Context module? • Context Module != Panels Context • Context allows you to define specific conditions and your site can react to those conditions. • Context has a stable D6 version and a Beta D7 Version Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 10. Context Module - Conditions • Conditions available by Default: – Context, Menu, Node Type, Taxonomy, Path, User Role, User Page, Views. – Different conditions allow you to use wildcards and ~ to exclude items. – Writing Condition Plugins: • http://wetmo.re/Y5Uv4r • http://wetmo.re/WGUwFo Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 11. Context Module - Reactions • Reactions available by Default: – Blocks, Breadcrumbs, Menu, Theme • Demo of using Conditions and Reactions Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 12. Context Module – Additional Modules • Modules are available to extend context. • Some of them are: – Context Keywords – Context Menu Block – Context HTTP Headers – Content GeoIP – Domain Context Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 13. Context Module – Context_GA • New Drupal Context Plugin : context_ga • Extends Google Analytics Tokenizer to provide conditions for GA cookie values. – Needs Context, Token, GA Tokenizer, GA • Create conditions by Source, Campaign, Medium, Content, Term, # Times Visited • Code available on github (GitHub URL) • Quick Demo Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 14. Central CT Drupal Meetup • ctdrupal.com • The Central CT Drupal Meetup meets the 3rd Tuesday every month, 7pm-9pm • Location: New Horizons Training Center, Bloomfield, CT • Future Free Training Saturdays being planned. Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
- 15. Resources • Slides/Files/Info – http://wetmo.re/dcwma-mww • Display Suite on Drupalize.me – http://bitly.com/bundles/mwetmore/3 • Context – http://bitly.com/bundles/mwetmore/2 Matthew Wetmore @mwetmore
Editor's Notes
- #2: How many Site Builders?How many Developers?How many people have used Display Suite?How many people have used Context?How many people have used Panels?How many people have used Views?