{"id":465,"date":"2011-06-12T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hibbets.net\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2011-06-12T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T16:31:21","slug":"drupalcamp-sc-session-notes-making-drupal-admin-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hibbets.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/drupalcamp-sc-session-notes-making-drupal-admin-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"DrupalCamp SC Session Notes: Making Drupal Admin Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Soper presented Making Drupal Admin Easier at DrupalCamp SC here at <a title=\"SouthEast LinuxFest\" href=\"http:\/\/hibbets.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/southeast-linuxfest-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">SouthEast LinuxFest<\/a> in Spartanburg, SC. The purpose of the talk is to make our lives as Drupal Admins a little easier. At the same time, the modules that he presented also create a better user experience for people who enter content. Ultimately, it makes it a more pleasant experience for the users, saving time for admins and users.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my notes from the session:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Admin themes, Garland is default. Rubik is an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Admin menu (sidebar)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>easier access to items in the admin menu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Block edit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>give you edit \/ configure links on blocks to make on-the-fly edits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Context<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a way to admin blocks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taxonomy Manager (tagging)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>built in taxonomy, you have to id every page<\/li>\n<li>enable double tree (drag and drop)<\/li>\n<li>managing tag sets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Filter perms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if you use CCK, each field has permission (if the fields are not re-used)<\/li>\n<li>filter by role<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check heavy UI<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 roles, 3k permissions&#8230;need give someone lots of perms, except a few<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s like a checkall box at the top of the perms page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View Bulk Operations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>allows you to select all content nodes (even the ones behind pagination)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Content Type Overview<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shows you all content types in one view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tab Tamer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you know that view \/ edit \/ delete tabs<\/li>\n<li>allows you to change the text (name) in the tab<\/li>\n<li>allows you to enable, hide, and disable the tabs on an individual basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Better formats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>give user different input formats<\/li>\n<li>allows you to give individual user roles a different default input format, WYSIWYG, Full HTML, filtered HTML<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Content lock<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>locks down a content type when another user is editing a node, for example, an article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critical users<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>protects critical users from being deleted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Soper presented Making Drupal Admin Easier at DrupalCamp SC here at SouthEast LinuxFest in Spartanburg, SC. 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