Lets begin by learning how to login to Drupal, then move onto the learning about how of the Drupal console works, and finally end with how Drupal publishing works.
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To login to Drupal, type swarthmore.edu/user into the web browser of your choice.
Login using your network username and password.
After successfully logging in, you will be automatically redirected to your Drupal Account Information page.
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Note: You’ll know that your logged into Drupal when you see a black menu bar appear at the top of the browser window that has your name.  |
1.2 The Drupal Menu Bar
Clicking on your name will open a submenu below the black menu bar with a Log Out option. You can use this to logout of Drupal.
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View My Sites will list the websites that you currently have permission to edit. It will also indicate if the website is published. By clicking on one of the sites listed, you will be taken directly there and can begin editing the site. Learn more about editing websites
View My Sites is currently selected.
Allows you to search your list of websites
Displays the site(s) that you have access to edit. Clicking the name will take you directly to the site. The list will also indicate if the website is published or not.
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Note: You must complete Drupal training before being given editing access to a website. |
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1.2.3 View My Profiles
View My Profiles will list all the Drupal profiles that you have permission to edit. It will also indicate if the profile is currently published. By clicking on one of the names listed, you will be taken directly there and can begin editing the Drupal profile information.
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Published - The published version of the page is what the public sees when they visit the page’s URL.
Draft - This is working copy (or DRAFT) of a webpage that can only be accessed by Drupal editors. This is the version that you and your team would work on when making changes to a page. Once the page is ready and/or has been approved for publication, you would change the state from Draft to Publish to make it become the published version.
Unpublished - If you no longer wish a page to be available to the public, then you can change the state to unpublished. Unpublished does not mean delete. The page still exists in the Drupal CMS and can be restored (or published) again by your group. If anyone from the public goes to an unpublished page, they will get a “404 Page Not Found” error message
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1.4.2 How Publishing Works
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Change to Draft - To create a new DRAFT (or update an existing DRAFT), simply select DRAFT in the drop down and hit SAVE.
Change to Published - To make your content changes (or current DRAFT) the new published verisonversion, select PUBLISHED, and hit SAVE.
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