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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

Acknowledgement

This project has been both a rewarding and learning experience. It could not have been completed without the support of my family, friends, and co-workers. Thanks go to Gibbie and Gary, Gil and Chuck, Pop and Shirley for their constant support and encouragement throughout my life. I appreciate everyone who had the patience to put up with my constantly changing schedule. I am fortunate to have worked with some amazing people over the years and thankful that I have had an opportunity to learn from each of them. I also want to specially thank two of my professors, Betsy Nunn (Data Processing, Arlington County) and Dr. Anne Olsen (CIS, Wingate University) who pushed my learning beyond the standard curriculum.

Finally, each and every page of this book was written with the memory of my mom looking over my shoulder and saying "You can do anything you set your mind to".

It was not until this book was complete, that I realized she was right. Thanks Mom!