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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

Summary


In this chapter, we started out talking about what Drupal is and what it includes. At its core, Drupal includes user authentication, content publishing, statistics and logging, and blog functionality. Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be downloaded for free from the Drupal website. We covered installation profiles that are prepackaged Drupal distributions that can be used to install Drupal for specific applications, including the following:

  • Conference organizing

  • Education sites

  • Church sites

  • Intranets

The next section talked about Open Atrium and the rich features that are included with the distribution. Open Atrium provides departments and organizations the ability to create team spaces for individual work groups and includes the following features:

  • Blog

  • Calendar

  • Group dashboard

  • Document library

  • Shoutbox

  • Case tracker

We then covered who should use Open Atrium and how it can easily be implemented for any team or working group for project management and communications within each group.

In the following chapter, we will learn how to create the foundation to install Open Atrium, by learning how to setup a web server and where we can go for more information for hosting our Open Atrium website.