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Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium

By : Tracy Smith
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Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium

By: Tracy Smith

Overview of this book

<p>In today's global society, online collaboration has gained tremendous importance as businesses look for ways to share ideas and collaborate easily. Open Atrium is a powerful and flexible Drupal installation that provides intranet solutions to businesses and organizations for sharing ideas. It is used to create intranets where co-workers or teams can collaborate easily. But Open Atrium is filled with so many powerful features that you may need some help to use it to its full potential.</p> <p><em>Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium</em> unlocks the power of Open Atrium and guides you through real-world examples of an Open Atrium intranet. Examples and screenshots are used throughout the book so that you can follow along on your Open Atrium installation. The examples walk through setting up your site, user administration, implementing core features, and maintaining your intranet site.</p> <p>This book starts off with explaining how to set up a web server on a Windows or Mac computer and install Drupal with the Open Atrium distribution. After installing Open Atrium you will learn how to add and maintain users. The book also covers some exciting topics such as the different "spaces" or "workgroup" micro-sites that can be created to match your organization's structure. Reading each of these sections, you will understand and become familiar with managing the Open Atrium interface. Once you comprehend the Open Atrium interface, you will learn how to create a blog, document library, and issue tracker for each group's dashboard or site page. The book covers everything from editing a single piece of content to arranging the layout of that content on each page.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you should be able to establish your own intranet site for your organization or workgroup using the Open Atrium Drupal distribution.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

User management


Open the browser and navigate to our newly created website. For Mac (MAMP) and Windows (WAMP) users the URL should be http://localhost/. You will probably already be logged in as the administration account from when we set up the site. If not, you will probably already be on the login page where you can go ahead and log in. If you do not see the login page, then click on the login link at the upper left corner of your site. Once you are logged in, you should see the main dashboard screen, which should look like the following screenshot:

Adding a user

The first thing we will do is add a couple of users to our website. We can access the Add user screen in one of three ways. From the dashboard, we can click on the Add user link at the bottom left of the page. Alternatively we can click the member icon on the dashboard main menu. The areas highlighted in the following screenshot represent the two links. If you click on that icon, you will see an additional link of Add user, which...