Case Study: Māori Television

Make it easy for your content authors (hide the complexity under the covers)

Transcript

1. Māori Television Sean Hamlin
2. Māori Television Introduction Hi, I’m Sean Architect/developer at Catalyst IT @wiifm @maoritv slides at http://bit.ly/drupalsouthmaoritv
3. Māori Television Māori Television • New Zealand’s indigenous broadcaster • Have a lot of local content • Own > 95% content they produce • Language learning
4. What are you going to talk about?
5. Make it easy for your content authors (hide the magic over the covers)
6. The magic
7. Māori Television Empower your content authors You should be aiming to keep your content authors happy, happy content authors mean: • less phone calls/emails • more productively • which ultimately means you can build more cool things
8. How do you make it easy for your content authors?
9. Māori Television Custom VBO screens Workflow filters language filters
10. Māori Television Who says you can have only one? Custom fields
11. Māori Television Different filters? Custom views filter in behind the scenes
12. Māori Television Make magic VBO actions These custom VBO actions perform Brightcove API writes
13. Contextual links for inline actions
14. Māori Television Contextual links for custom actions Send the author to node/add/poll with query parameters Destroys the Drupal cache for the video
15. Māori Television Contextual links for view modes
16. Māori Television Contextual links for flags
17. Entity references and i18n
18. Māori Television ER and i18n This is a box full of fun, and it can work Here are some pro tips
19. Māori Television ER and Views is a good thing
20. Māori Television ER with no synchronisation A (EN) B (EN) A (MI) B (MI) translate
21. Māori Television ER + i18n_sync A (EN) B (EN) A (MI) B (MI) i18n_sync
22. Māori Television ER + Chosen Now that you have the basics, lets go pro with this: 1. Turn ER into a select list 2. Add the chosen module 3. Tell the client that you worked super hard
23. Māori Television ER + Chosen
24. Māori Television ER + Chosen
25. While we are talking about the Chosen module
26. Māori Television
27. Māori Television Chosen for taxonomy terms
28. Māori Television Chosen for menu parents
29. Māori Television Chosen for menu parents
30. Māori Television Chosen for language selection
31. Pick an administration theme
32. Māori Television :( Seven can be a touch bland
33. Māori Television Rubik is better Compact and has pretty icons
34. Māori Television Shiny is really neat This is the commerce kickstart base theme
35. CKeditor
36. Māori Television Don’t use all the buttons
37. Māori Television Every button has a purpose
38. Māori Television Templates button
39. Māori Television Templates button Embed the node ID 3914 into the content Embed the Youtube video into the content
40. Māori Television Linking to content using linkit
41. Māori Television Linking to content using linkit
42. Branded microsites
43. Māori Television Masthead Side bar Side bar Nav + Tab colour Sponsor + link
44. Māori Television
45. WAT? http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6192/6084665038_b6b93bd1e3.jpg
46. Māori Television Key requirements • content manageable • hides the complexity • flexible
47. Māori Television hook_custom_theme() to the rescue Main theme TV show sub theme Dynamically chosen at runtime
48. Māori Television TV show houses fields
49. Māori Television jQuery colorpicker
50. Māori Television jQuery colorpicker
51. Facebook integration
52. Māori Television <og:meta> tags everywhere Most news articles and episodes have around 25 of these tags
53. What’s so special about <og:meta> tags? (and why do you need so damn many)
54. Māori Television
55. Māori Television
56. Forcing Facebook to clear its cache
57. Māori Television New “sharing tools” pane One click here will: 1. Clear Drupal’s video cache 2. Tell Facebook to drop it’s cache for the page
58. Māori Television New “sharing tools” pane The pane then changes to “share” links for the content author
59. Brightcove video integration How does a TV episode make it on the site
60. Māori Television Māori Television 720p video Source video Magic scripts XML generation Drupal Brightcove Media API Episode callback Transcode Content creation
61. That looks hard!
62. Māori Television It is actually a piece of cake The content author only needs to interact at the beginning where they: • rename a video file • drag it into a shared folder • get a cup of coffee
63. Brightcove synchronisation
64. Māori Television Drupal is the master Every save on a piece of content with a video triggers a synchronisation to Brightcove The content author does not need to worry about this
65. Māori Television Brightcove metadata
66. Remember
67. The magic
68. Questions
69. Māori Television Modules talked about • views_bulk_operations • entity_reference • chosen • shiny & rubik • brightcove • ckeditor • linkit • jquery_colorpicker
70. Thanks!