This repository contains the Drupal configuration for the LandPortal, including the LandBook and the LandDebate.
Here are the instructions for configuring the LandPortal. All of the following steps can be easily followed using the Drupal administration interface and require to be logged into LandPortal using an account with administrative privileges.
The new LandPortal appearance is provided by the 'book' theme. To enable the book theme go to the tab Appearance in the top bar of the admin interface.
Once in the Appearance tab, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and in the section disabled themes click Enable and set default in the Book Theme for LandPortal. Now, the book theme is used by default in all places except the administration view.
The favicon is a little icon that shows in the browser tab and in the browser bookmark section representing the entire site. The new LandPortal has a nice favicon which can be easily enabled:
- Go to admin/appearance/settings
- In the section Shortcut icon settings uncheck the option Use default logo
- In the path to custom logo field write sites/all/themes/book/favicon.png
The following screenshot shows how the options shold look:
The hub view has been designed to be the entry point to the new LandPortal. Also, there is a nice page to show when an error occurs into the system. To enable those pages take the following steps:
- Go to admin/config/system/site-information
- In the Default front page text field write home
- In the Error pages text fields write e404
The following screenshot shows how the fields should be filled.
As stated in the previous section: the hub has been designed as the entry point
to the new LandPortal. By default Drupal loads the user profile page when an
user logs into the portal, but we want to override this behaviour and redirect
the user to the hub.
Two steps are required to achieve this:
- Go to admin/config/system/actions, in the bottom of the page you will
see the page creation form. Choose the option redirect to URL in the
dropdown and click the button Create. A new page will load in which you can
set the action label (we suggest something readable, for example
"Landportal redirect on login"), in the url write home (the hub path).
- The following screenshot shows how the options should look.
- The following screenshot shows how the options should look.
- Go to admin/structure/trigger/user and select the action that we have just created in the after an used has logged in option, then click assign.
The LandDebate uses 5 different taxonomies or vocabularies to classify the different contents:
- continents
- countries
- debate status
- regions
- topics
Each of this taxonomies is populated by terms. Unfortunately, those terms must be imported in a manual way (the import process only needs to be done once).
The following steps explain how to import the taxonomy terms:
- Go to admin/structure/taxonomy
- Click the button CSV IMPORT in the right upper side.
- Choose Translation as the type of import. In the list of languages field put the following text und, es, fr.
- Paste the taxonomy terms into the text box called terms to import.
- In the vocabulary choice field select the Continents taxonomy.
- Repeat the steps with the countries, topics, debate status, regions, languages. Don't forget to select the corresponding taxonomy in each case.
(Forget the "Tags" taxonomy, it is automatically created by Drupal. You can delete it if you want.)
The following screenshots show how the import should look.
Drupal creates two content types called Article and Basic page that will not be used into LandPortal. Those content types can be ommited or deleted without problem. The content types can be accessed in admin/structure/types.
The blog posts content type can be configured in admin/structure/types/manage/blog-post.
- Change the preview before submitting option to Disabled
- In the comment settings section uncheck the Threading option.
- In the comment settings section uncheck the Allow comment title option.
- In the comment settings section set the Preview comment option to Disabled
The debates content type can be configured in admin/structure/types/manage/debate.
- Change the preview before submitting option to Disabled
- In the comment settings section set the Default comment status for new content to Closed
- In the comment settings section set the Preview comment option to Disabled
The events content type can be configured in admin/structure/types/manage/event.
- Change the preview before submitting option to Disabled
- In the comment settings section set the Default comment status for new content to Hidden
- In the comment settings section uncheck the Threading option.
- In the comment settings section uncheck the Allow comment title option.
- In the comment settings section set the Preview comment option to Disabled
The news content type can be configured in admin/structure/types/manage/news. The configuration for the news is the same as the configuration for the events, which you can see in the previous section.
The organization content type can be configured in admin/structure/types/manage/organization. The configuration for the organizations is the same as the configuration for the events and news, which you can see in the previous section.
The new LandPortal uses Apache solr to provide a high quality search service.
The Apache solr configuration can be accessed in admin/config/search/apachesolr/settings/solr/edit?destination=admin/config/search/apachesolr.
In the Solr server URL field write http://localhost:8983/solr/drupal,
the URL in which Solr is listening.
To configure Apache Solr as the default search provider for the new LandPortal go to admin/config/search/settings and in the option Default search module choose the option Apache Solr search.
The settings should look like the following screenshot:
The WYSIWYG module allows Drupal to show a nice text editor component in which
the users can easily format the text and insert images.
To edit the options go to the path admin/config/content/wysiwyg and for each
profile choose the editor markItUp 1.1.14.
After selecting the editor you can change its options and choose which buttons
to show. We suggest enabling all the buttons for the best user experience.
The HybdridAuth module allows users to sign in with their Facebook or Twitter accounts, in order to configure this module go to the path admin/config/people/hybridauth. Now, in authentication provider check Facebook and Twitter check box and then go through their settings.
Twitter: Follow the link provided and create a new application, you must be signed in. Fill all the gaps and paste the callback URL provided in Drupal. Then, accept developer rules and create Twitter app. Finally you must fill the form in Drupal with the API key and API secret provided on API Keys tab.
Facebook: Follow the link provided and create a new application, you must be signed in. Fill the gaps for display name, namespace and category. Create the app and fill the captcha. Now, go to settings, click on advanced tab and fill Valid OAuth redirect URIs gap with your site main URL, for example: http://landportal.info. Finally return to basic tab and fill Drupal form with App ID and App Secret. In order to view the App secret you will have to type your password again.
Note: Facebook apps are by default in test mode so you must provide and email and then Submit Items for Approval in Status & Review section on left menu.
After all, you have to enable anonymous users permission to login with their Social Media accounts. This is done by checking first check box of Use HybridAuth option on path admin/people/permissions
##Configure Google Analytics Go to admin/config/system/googleanalytics and fill Web Property ID with your own ID. More customization could be done in this page.