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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

About the Reviewers

Dave Poon is a web developer and designer based in Sydney. He started his career as a freelance graphic and web designer in 1998 and worked with web development agencies and medium size enterprises. After graduating from Central Queensland University with a degree in Multimedia Studies and Master degree in IT, he began his love affair with Drupal, and worked for a variety of companies using Drupal.

Currently, Dave is the director of Erlango (http://www.erlango.com), a web product development startup, located in Sydney & Hong Kong, which uses Drupal as a framework to create web products and customized CMS.

He is also the author of Drupal 7 CCK, which is published by Packt Publishing.

Floris van Woudenberg is a Dutch web designer (http://www.flodo.nl). Floris was born and raised in the neighborhood of Utrecht and has been involved with computers since the very first 'home computers' arrived in our homes. Now at the age of 40, he is closely following developments in multimedia and web designing. From his home in Barneveld, Floris is active in developing custom websites for small and medium sized companies. In the past two years, he committed himself as a professional and as a Christian, to providing web solutions for churches throughout the Netherlands.

Due to their flexibility, scalability, and infinite possibilities, Drupal and OpenAtrium have proven to provide the best solutions for this particular group. At the moment, Floris is engaged in using Drupal exclusively so that only projects built in Drupal are being delivered.