Drupal/C2/Configuration-Management-in-Admin-Interface/English-timed
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|- | 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Configuration Management in Admin Interface.
|- | 00:09 | In this tutorial, we will also learn about some menu items, such as-
|- | 00:13 | Extend,
|- | 00:15 | Configuration,
|- | 00:16 | People and
|- | 00:18 | Report.
|- | 00:20 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
- Ubuntu Operating System
- Drupal 8 and
- 'Firefox' web browser.
|- | 00:29 | You can use any web browser as per your choice.
|- | 00:34 | Let us open our website which we created earlier.
|- | 00:38 | As we mentioned earlier, Drupal is like a framework. So, it doesn’t actually do a lot.
|- | 00:45 | This Extend link on the Administration toolbar is very important when we begin to build our site.
|- | 00:53 | Click on Extend. This gives us an overview of all of the Modules on our site.
|- | 01:00 | Modules are features.
|- | 01:02 | We will cover them in detail later on.
|- | 01:06 | This is the list of some of the Modules that come with Drupal.
|- | 01:11 | We can see what has been enabled or not enabled, just by looking at the check marks.
|- | 01:18 | The Extend menu allows us to see all the Modules or features that we have enabled on our Drupal site.
|- | 01:26 | We will be adding a number of Modules to our site as we go throughout this series.
|- | 01:32 | Let’s look at the Configuration menu now. Only site administrators get access to this area.
|- | 01:41 | Because we are the superuser or the user number 1, we have access to everything.
|- | 01:47 | Notice that there’s a red pop-up on the screen.
|- | 01:51 | You may or may not have this on your screen.
|- | 01:54 | It says that the status report hasn’t run and that I need to check if my Drupal site is up to date.
|- | 02:03 | I’m going to ignore that for now, and worry about that when we get to the Reports screen.
|- | 02:09 | This particular menu gives us access to configuring all the different aspects of our site
|- | 02:16 | like - Site information, Account settings, Text formats and editors, Performance issues, Maintenance mode, Image styles and others.
|- | 02:30 | We will go through these in detail later on in this series.
|- | 02:35 | But for now, let us update our site information.
|- | 02:39 | 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".
|- | 02:53 | Whenever we make changes like this, they change the entire site.
|- | 02:58 | This is one of the great things about content management systems.
|- | 03:04 | 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.
|- | 03:16 | That is a really big improvement over static HTML.
|- | 03:21 | Also, on this page, we get the Email address which is the From address in automated emails.
|- | 03:29 | We can also choose a different front page and a default 403 and 404 page.
|- | 03:37 | Recall that in Drupal, every page is a web form.
|- | 03:41 | So, every time we make a change on our Drupal page, we have to click Submit or Save.
|- | 03:49 | Let’s click on Save configuration button at the bottom.
|- | 03:54 | Then, click on Back to site.
|- | 03:58 | Notice that our site name is now "Drupalville" and we have a slogan on every page of our site.
|- | 04:06 | We will explore the Configuration menu in detail, in later tutorials.
|- | 04:12 | Let’s click People on the Administration toolbar.
|- | 04:16 | It takes us to the People area on our Drupal site.
|- | 04:20 | You’ll notice the tabs- List, Permissions and Roles.
|- | 04:26 | This is just an introduction; we’ll cover these in much more detail later.
|- | 04:32 | The Roles section allows us to create user accounts, manage permissions about what people can see and what people can do on our site.
|- | 04:44 | The username "admin" is here.
|- | 04:47 | If we click Edit, we can see all the things about our own user account.
|- | 04:54 | We can change the Password, provided we know the current one.
|- | 04:59 | There is an option to reset it, if we don’t know. Here, it tells us that our Role is Administrator.
|- | 05:09 | My status is Active and we have our own Personal contact form and our LOCATION SETTINGS.
|- | 05:21 | We can update and add our own picture by clicking on the Browse button, under Picture.
|- | 05:29 | So, basically, this is where we can manage our own profile. Now, click on Save.
|- | 05:37 | To summarize - Roles tab allows us to add various roles.
|- | 05:42 | Permissions tab allows us to give certain permissions to those roles
|- | 05:48 | and, List tab allows us to assign users to those roles.
|- | 05:54 | They’ll get certain Permissions which will allow them to do certain things and see certain things on our Drupal site.
|- | 06:04 | People is where we manage all the users on our Drupal website.
|- | 06:10 | The last thing we will look at on our Administration toolbar is Reports.
|- | 06:16 | Click on Reports.
|- | 06:18 | This gives us a listing of some important things that we need to know about our Drupal site.
|- | 06:25 | For example - Are there any Available updates?
|- | 06:28 | Recent log messages,
|- | 06:31 | A listing of all the fields on all entity types,
|- | 06:36 | Status reports,
|- | 06:37 | Top “access denied” and "Page not found” errors,
|- | 06:42 | Top search phrases and some of the plugins that our Views may use.
|- | 06:49 | Click on Available updates. This will give a listing of all the things that might need to be updated.
|- | 06:58 | We can also see that the last update was 48 minutes ago.
|- | 07:04 | This is managed by Cron and we need to set this up on our server.
|- | 07:10 | For now, just click on Check manually.
|- | 07:15 | Drupal will now check all the things that we have installed and let us know that we are up-to-date.
|- | 07:24 | If we had added more Modules or features to our site, there would be a bigger list here.
|- | 07:32 | We will check this again later on, as we go through this tutorial.
|- | 07:37 | Click on Reports to get a Status report of our site. -
|- | 07:42 | For example, what version of Drupal we have and when Cron was last run.
|- | 07:49 | Here we can see a link from where we can run Cron externally.
|- | 07:55 | Our Database system, Database version etc.
|- | 08:00 | You should keep a close look on the Reports section of your site.
|- | 08:05 | Especially, if you’re the person responsible for- maintaining all the updates for Drupal and the Modules that you download.
|- | 08:14 | Lastly, we have Help and Help gives us links to help page of our site.
|- | 08:22 | That sums up our Administration Toolbar.
|- | 08:26 | With this we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
|- | 08:32 | In this tutorial, we have learnt about menu items:
- Extend
- Configuration
- People and
- Report.
|- | 08:52 | This video is adapted from Acquia and OS Training and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
|- | 09:03 | The video at this link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it.
|- | 09:11 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team conducts workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us.
|- | 09:19 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by-
- NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and
- NVLI, Ministry of Culture
Government of India.
|- | 09:32 | This is Varsha Venkatesh, signing off. Thanks for joining.
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