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Duke University West Campus

Early in 2013, Trinity Technology Services announced the adoption of the Drupal content management system (CMS) software as our preferred platform, and began migration of our existing Apostrophe-based sites to Drupal. Since that time, we completed our migration and continued building new sites. This decision was based on Drupal’s many advantages, such as offering a robust and flexible development framework, a user-friendly editing interface for content updates, a dynamic and worldwide community of active, engaged and welcoming developers, designers and content strategists, as well as the fact that many other groups at Duke had selected Drupal to be their platform for website development.

In May 2019, we announced our project to migrate the websites we support to the new version of Drupal, and are currently on version 10.

To help further assist our Drupal efforts at Duke, we are sharing our modules and knowledge with the greater Duke and Drupal communities. These pages provide information we hope you will find useful, whether you’re a developer, designer, editor, or however you participate within the Drupal ecosystem at Duke.

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Interested in learning more?

If you’re interested in developing your Drupal skills, LinkedIn Learning has a number of Drupal-specific courses. See the Office of Information Technology website for information on how to take advantage of these online tutorials.

There is also a Drupal @ Duke community here, in which Trinity Web Support actively participates. We encourage you to join us on our mailing list.

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If you are external to Duke and have stumbled across this site because you use Drupal at your institution or work place, please note that the how-to documentation within this site is specific to the way Trinity College of Arts & Sciences uses the popular content management system.

As such, much of what you find here will likely have little relevance to your own Drupal implementation and website(s).

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  • Getting Started
    • Common Web Terminology
    • Drupal Concepts and Terminology
    • Web Accessibility
    • Editor Access and Training
    • Logging-in to Your Site
  • Website Structure
    • Content Types
      • Alumni
      • Announcement
      • Basic page
      • Book
      • Conference
      • Conference speaker
      • Course
      • Department publication
      • Event - Imported
      • Event - Local
      • Feature slide
      • Member - Imported
      • Member - Local
      • News article - Imported
      • News article - Local
      • Opportunity
      • PhD for Hire
      • Project
      • Research Area
    • URL Aliases
    • Field Types
    • Media and Files
    • Paragraphs
      • Paragraph types
    • Menus
    • Entityqueues
    • Blocks
  • How-to’s
    • Managing Content
      • Managing Your Front Page
      • Managing Member Profiles
        • The Trinity Directory Tool and Member Management
        • Reorganizing Your “People” Section
      • Managing News Articles
      • Managing Events
      • Managing Feature Slides
      • Managing Courses
      • Managing Books
      • Managing Publications
      • Managing Menus
      • Managing Blocks
      • Managing Entityqueues
      • Managing Taxonomies
      • Managing Sensitive and Restricted Data
      • Managing Broken Links
    • Creating New Content
      • Create a Basic page
      • Create a News Article
      • Create an Event
      • Create a Feature Slide
      • Create an Alumni Profile
      • Create a Conference and Conference speakers
      • Create a Local Member
      • Create a PhD for Hire
      • Create a Project
      • Create an Announcement
      • Create an Opportunity
      • Creating a Custom Alias
    • Editing existing content
      • Finding your content
      • Editing basics
      • Stop content from displaying (unpublishing)
      • Cloning content
      • Content revisions
      • Creating a redirect
      • Imported vs. local data
    • Working with the text editor
      • Changing text format
      • Working with links
      • “Call to Action” links
      • Working with tables
    • Working with media
      • Working with images
        • Setting the image focal point
        • Image display modes
        • Image resources
        • Image optimization
      • Working with video
      • Working with audio
      • Working with files
      • Unpublishing media
    • Working with paragraphs
      • Accordion
      • Content Bundle
      • Formatted Text
      • Image Feature 200px
      • Image Feature 500px Parallax
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      • Photo Gallery
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