Drupal/C2/Configuration-Management-in-Admin-Interface/English

Title of Script: Configuration Management in Admin Interface

Author: Varsha Venkatesh

Keywords: video tutorial, drupal, extend, configuration, people, report, permissions, roles, Status Reports, Administration toolbar, Help

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide 1: Configuration Management in Admin Interface	Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Configuration Management in Admin Interface.
Slide 2: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will also learn about some menu items, such as Extend Configuration People and Report
Slide 3: System requirement	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Operating System Drupal 8 and Firefox web browser You can use any web browser as per your choice.
	Let us open our website which we created earlier.

Time	Narration
00:05	As we mentioned earlier, Drupal is like a framework, so it doesn’t actually do a lot.
00:10	This Extend link on the Administration toolbar is very important when we begin to build our site.
00:18	Click on Extend. This gives us an overview of all of the modules on our site. Modules are features.
00:28	We will cover them in detail later on. This is the list of some of the modules that come with Drupal. We can see what has been enabled or not enabled, just by looking at the checkmarks.
01:27	The Extend menu allows us to see all the modules or features that we have enabled on our Drupal site.
01:34	We will be adding a number of modules to our site as we go throughout this series.

Time	Narration
00:05	Let’s look at the Configuration menu now. Only site administrators get access to this area.
00:18	Because we are the superuser or the user number 1, we have access to everything.
00:23	Notice that there’s a red pop-up on the screen. You may or may not have this on your screen. It says that the status report hasn’t run, and that I need to check if my Drupal site is up to date.
00:34	I’m going to ignore that for now, and worry about that when we get to the Reports screen.
00:39	This particular menu gives us access to configuring all the different aspects of our site. Like - Site information, Account settings, Text formats and editors, Performance issues, Maintenance mode, Image styles, And others. We will go through these in detail later on in this series.
00:58	But for now, let us update our site information. Click on Site information. And let’s change our Site name to Drupalville. And in the Slogan, type - A Great Place to Learn All About Drupal.
01:17	Whenever we make changes like this, they change the entire site. This is one of the great things about content management systems.
01:24	So now, whether we had one page or a thousand pages on our site, the site name across the top of every single page will be Drupalville.
01:33	That is a really big improvement over static HTML.
01:38	Also on this page we get the Email address, which is the From address in automated emails. We can also choose a different front page and a default 403 and 404 page.
01:50	Recall that in Drupal, every page is a web form. So, every time we make a change on a Drupal page, we have to click Submit or Save.
02:00	Let’s click on Save configuration button at the bottom. Then, click on Back to site. Notice that our site name is now Drupalville and we have a slogan on every page of our site.
02:14	We will explore the Configuration menu in detail in later tutorials.

Time	Narration
00:05	Let’s click People on the administration toolbar. It takes us to the People area on our Drupal site.
00:13	You’ll notice the tabs, List, Permissions and Roles. This is just an introduction. We’ll cover these in much more detail later.
00:21	The Roles section allows us to create user accounts, manage permissions about what people can see and what people can do on our site.
00:31	The username admin is here. If we click Edit, we can see all the things about our own user account.
00:40	We can change the Password, provided we know the current one. There is an option to reset it, if we don’t know. Here, it tells us that our Role is Administrator. My status is Active. And we have our own Personal contact form, and our LOCATION SETTINGS.
00:54	We can update and add our own picture by clicking on the Browse button under Picture.
01:00	So basically, this is where we can manage our own profile. Now, click on Save.
01:05	To summarise - Roles tab allows us to add various roles, Permissions tab allows us to give certain permissions to those roles And List tab allows us to assign users to those roles.  They’ll get certain Permissions, which will allow them to do certain things and see certain things on our Drupal site.
01:23	People is where we manage all the users on our Drupal website.

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00:05	The last thing we will look at on our Administration toolbar is Reports.
00:10	Click on Reports. This gives us a listing of some important things that we need to know about our Drupal site.
00:15	For example - Are there any Available updates?
00:18	* Recent log messages, A listing of all the fields on all entity types, Status reports, Top “access denied” and “Page not found” errors, Top search phrases, and some of the plugins that our Views may use.
00:33	Click on Available updates. This will give a listing of all the things that might need to be updated.
00:42	We can also see that the last update was 48 minutes ago.
00:46	This is managed by Cron and we need to set this up on our server.
00:50	For now, just click on Check manually. Drupal will now check all the things that we have installed and let us know that we are up-to-date.
01:00	If we had added more modules or features to our site, there would be a bigger list here. We will check this again later on, as we go through this tutorial.
01:10	Click on Reports to get a Status report of our site. - For example what version of Drupal we have and when Cron was Last run.
01:21	Here we can see a link from where we can run Cron externally. Our Database system, Database version, etc.
01:32	You should keep a close look on the Reports section of your site. Especially if you’re the person responsible for- maintaining all the updates for Drupal and the modules that you download.
01:44	Lastly, we have Help, and Help gives us links to help page of our site
01:51	That sums up our Administration Toolbar. With this we come to the end of this tutorial.

Slide 4: Summary	Let us summarize. In this tutorial we have learnt about menu items Extend Configuration People and Report
Slide 5: Acknowledgement	This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
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Slide 7: Spoken Tutorial Workshops	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us.
Slide 8: Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NVLI, Ministry of Culture Government of India.
	This is Varsha Venkatesh signing off. Thanks for joining.

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