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Moving Beyond Penguins to Drupal -- Status
| Overview | Taxonomies | Content Types & Fields | Linking Components | Views | Page Creation |
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Status of Major Areas
See each major area for tasks and status details.
 Success: Tested
|  Success: Ready for Testing
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Move from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 | Upgrade Notes |
Issues
Outstanding Issues
- Keywords - Need to determine if/how to get Drupal to use the keywords field from a content page to put a <meta> keyword tag in the <head> tag
- Conversion - Determine process for converting issues, departments, and articles programmatically.
- Breadcrumbs - How to do breadcrumbs with static paths?
- Pretty URLs - Want to use URLs exactly as they exist today in the beyond penguins site (ex. http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/information.php?topic=stories), as opposed to, Drupal's polar/node/# form of URLs (ex. http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/polar/node/4).
- Drupal 7 is not fully cooked. Many resources and tools available for Drupal 6 are not yet available for Drupal 7. I am evaluating whether to continue with the Drupal 6 install or the Drupal 7 install.
Resolved Issues
- Copyright - include copyright on only certain pages using blocks.
Status Summary
The following gives a broad overview of completed and remaining work.
Broad outline of completed work:
- A theme was created for Beyond Penguins from the Zen theme, which is a basic theme designed to be extended for customized interfaces.
- Home page is successfully implemented using the new theme (except for use of Issues TOC View).
- Anticipated content types have been defined and created in Drupal.
- Flat files of Taxonomies were created for importing taxonomies into Drupal. The import of all taxonomies is complete. The only exception is the taxonomy used for meta keywords.
- Create static pages by hand. (7 pages) -- Language Conversion still needs some work. It would make 8 static pages.
- Conversion to Drupal 7 process completed with some minor issues remaining (albeit not necessarily trivial to fix).
Broad outline of remaining work:
- Create a sample page of each remaining content type.
- Create views that are used by various pages
- Explore the possibility of export from fedora/fez and import into Drupal of repeating pages/content (primarily pages of each issue and images)
Expected Challenges
- Documentation for complex themes is limited which makes implementation of complex themes challenging.
- There are quite a few unknowns with regard to the import/export process and its feasibility as an approach.
