Secrets to Awesomizing® Your Editor’s Back-end Drupal Experience Mike Herchel http://herchel.com @mikeherchel drupal.org/user/118428 

Drupal's [much deserved] reputation... 

History of Drupal's UX: Drupal 4.7 

...Drupal 5.3 

...Drupal 6.6 

Contrib to the rescue! Admin_Menu Module Admin Module Awesome Admin Themes Vertical Tabs 

D7UX Project Goals 1. Make the most frequent tasks easy and less frequent tasks achievable. 2. Design for the 80% 3. Privilege the Content Creator 4. Make the default settings smart d7ux.org 

D7UX Delivered! ● Admin Toolbar ● Overlay ● Contextual Links ● Shortcuts ● Dashboard ● Much More! 

Real usability depends on YOU! -Ronnie James Dio 

Reduce Short Term Memory Load 

Use Rules or Login Redirect Modules to send your content editors where they need to be. ● http://drupal.org/project/rules ● http://drupal.org/project/login_redirect Basics: Redirect Users After Actions 

Easy Win: D7's core dashboard PROTIP: Make a killer dashboard with Views Bulk Operations and Views Exposed Filters 

Workbench == Dashboard on steroids ● Show Your Edits ● Workflow Moderation ● Content Revisioning (including unpublished drafts) ● Manage Access via Menu or Taxonomy Next Step: Workbench PROTIP: You can also modify Workbench's views with VBO! 

Simplify and Reduce 

Basics: Reduce Permissions ● Easiest win: reduce permissions! PROTIP: Reorder your user roles from least permissive to most permission (D7 Only) 

Basics: Remove unused WYSIWYG buttons Easiestier Win: Remove unused WYSIWYG Editor buttons 

Simple: Better Formats Module Better Formats Module ● Set default text formats per role ● Set default text formats per field ● http://drupal.org/project/better_formats 

Simplify: Node Form Settings Node Form Settings Module ● Get rid of unused node form settings ○ Revision Log textarea ○ Path ○ Publishing Options ○ Comments Options ○ More! ● http://drupal.org/project/nodeformsettings 

Fav Module: Field_Group Field_Group module ○ Collapsible Fieldsets! ○ Vertical Tabs! ○ Horizontal Tabs! ○ Accordions! ○ Multi-Page Forms! ○ Oh, My! 

[Field_Group demo] PROTIP: You can move the Save button to the last page of your multipage form within the multipage wrapper widget 

Useful: Drupal 7 (Core) Shortcut Bar Drupal 7's core shortcuts rock! ● Admin can edit user's shortcuts ● Assign a shortcut set to a role using "Shortcut per Role" module (http://drupal. org/project/shortcutperrole) 

Consistent Patterns 

Simple: Publish_Button Publish Button Module ● Adds Publish/Unpublish button to node/add ● Be sure to set content type's default to 'Not Published' ● http://drupal.org/project/publish_button 

Views UI: Edit Basic Settings Views UI: Edit Basic Settings module ● Allows Content Editors to easily edit the header, footer, and empty text of a view! ● http://drupal.org/project/views_ui_basic 

[Views Edit Basic Settings demo] 

Freakin' Awesome: VBO Views Bulk Operations ● Enables Admin to create administrative blocks that enable... bulk operations! ● Can add to Dashboard ● Don't have to use table- view display in D7 

Cool: Contextual Filters on Views Rows Contextual Filters on Views Rows == Awesomeness! ● Not a module ● Enables content editor to easily edit entities that are displayed within a view 

[Views contextual filters demo] 

Handling Errors and Undos 

Easier Errors: Field/ Clientside Validation ● Field Validation - Allows admin to create extremely specific validation rules within Fields (http://drupal. org/project/field_validation) ● Clientside Validation - enables validation without page reload and more (http://drupal.org/project/clientside_validation) 

[Field Validation / Clientside Validation demo] 

Easy Win: Enable Revisions on your Content types Default your content types to create new revisions (not enabled by default)! PROTIP: You can hide the Revision Log using the Node Form Settings module 

Easily See Edits: Diff Module Diff Module ● Easily view changes in content between revisions 

The Holy Grail... 

What is Spark? 

The Holy (D7) Grail: Spark Spark Distribution ● Being developed by Acquia ● Intended to test authoring experience improvements in Drupal 7 on real sites with real users and real content. ● Inline editing, true WYSIWYG, responsive layout builder, new admin theme, and more! 

[What you can do with Spark now...] 

Modules Covered ● Login Redirect - drupal. org/project/login_redirect ● Rules - drupal.org/project/rules ● Core Dashboard module ● Workbench suite of modules ● Better Formats drupal. org/project/better_formats ● Node Form Settings module - drupal. org/project/nodeformsettings ● Field_Group drupal.org/project/field_group ● Shortcut per Role - drupal. org/project/shortcutperrole ● Publish Button Module - drupal. org/project/publish_button ● Views UI: Edit Basic Settings - drupal. org/project/views_ui_basic ● Views Bulk Operations - drupal. org/project/views_bulk_operations ● Field Validation - drupal. org/project/field_validation ● Clientside Validation - drupal. org/project/clientside_validation ● Diff Module - drupal.org/project/diff 

Questions?? ● Questions? ● Thank you!