Drupal/C3/People-Management/English
Title: Drupal People Management
Keywords: Drupal, Video tutorial, People Management, super user, adding role
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Slide 1:
Drupal People Management |
Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Drupal People Management. |
Slide 2:
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn about
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Slide 3:
System requirement
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To record this tutorial, I am using
You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
Time | Narration |
00:10 | Lets learn about People management. |
00:15 | I have switched back to the ZIRCON theme and we will keep this theme for the rest of this tutorial. |
00:20 | People management is really very important.
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00:32 | Let’s click on People.
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00:45 | Through the permission structure, Drupal allows us to control what people can see and what people can do. |
00:53 | Now it’s important to remember a few things here. |
00:57 | Remember that you are user no.1 - that is the super user. |
01:00 | Nobody can change your permissions. |
01:05 | There is a user below that’s called ADMINISTRATOR. |
01:09 | Administrators are generally given permission to manage the entire site.
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01:19 | Authenticated Users are logged in people who have certain rights.
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01:28 | Usually, Anonymous Users can just view the content that’s not protected and do nothing else. |
01:33 | Another important thing to remember is, to set up roles that are specific to the tasks on the site. |
01:42 | Suppose we have a summer intern who is only allowed to update Events.
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01:51 | This summer intern needs to have his/her own role, so that you can manage the permissions. |
01:59 | We will set that up shortly. |
02:02 | For now, let’s click on Permissions tab.
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02:10 | The list gets longer and longer and longer -
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02:45 | People management in Drupal is about what people can do. |
02:50 | Next, we will add a new role, give it some permissions and test it out. |
Time | Narration |
00:05 | Let’s click Roles. |
00:10 | Let’s add a new role here called Summer Intern. |
00:18 | Drupal will give it a machine name, as always.
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00:23 | Now we have a new role Summer Intern, that doesn’t have any permissions yet. |
00:27 | I like to move my roles in the order of ability or permissions.
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00:40 | Let’s click Save order.
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00:47 | Click on Permissions tab.
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00:52 | Let’s go back for a second by clicking on Roles tab.
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01:00 | Now we just see the permissions for the Summer Intern and it’s a little bit easier. |
01:05 | Scroll down and locate the Content type called Events - it’s about half way down for me. |
01:15 | Here, let’s say the Summer Intern can
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01:26 | What we’re not going to allow the Summer Intern to do is -
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01:37 | We are also not going to allow them to revert back to an old version.
We will give our editors those particular powers. |
01:47 | This is a pretty limited role.
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01:55 | And notice again -
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02:05 | So, this is a very limited role.
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02:15 | Now, let’s add a user and here we can give a fake email address.
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02:28 | In Username, we’ll type Sam and we’ll use sam as the password also.
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02:37 | We need to change the Status to Active.
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02:46 | For now, we will turn off the Personal contact form.
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02:50 | Lastly, click Create new account. |
02:55 | The success messages tells us that
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03:00 | So, now on our user list, we can see Sam.
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03:10 | Let’s logout and login as Sam and test.
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03:23 | That’s not ethical. |
03:25 | There is a fantastic module at drupal.org/project/masquerade. |
03:31 | The Masquerade module allows us to do exactly what it says - masquerade as somebody else.
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03:43 | I have already installed Masquerade module in my machine.
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Screenshot | Once it is installed, you can see a new link Unmasquerade in the login area. |
Screenshot | To use the Masquerade, go to the People page.
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04:00 | Notice that as soon as we Masquerade as Sam, the toolbars are gone.
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04:20 | If we click on Our Drupal Manual and then on Installing Drupal, we can’t edit.
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04:30 | And once again we cannot edit.
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04:38 | Once again, we can click on an event but we are not able to edit it or delete it. |
04:50 | It looks like our permissions are right. |
screenshot | Now go back to the administrator role by clicking on Unmasquerade link. |
With this we come to the end of this tutorial. | |
Slide 5:
Summary |
Let us summarize.
In this tutorial we have learnt about
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Slide 6:
Acknowledgement |
This video is
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Slide 7:
Acknowledgement
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The video at this link summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
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Slide 8:
Spoken Tutorial Workshops
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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates.
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Slide 9:
Acknowledgement
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Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by
Government of India. |
This is Ameesha Bhorkhade signing off.
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