Drupal: What's New? (Quick Start Guide)

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Last updated: Jul 11, 2022 by Jonathan Woolson
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  1. Log Into the Drupal website using your eServices username and password.
    1. See: Log into Drupal

  2. When you are logged into Drupal as an editor, you will see a black tool bar with white text and icons.



  3. The yellow info bar displays the essential details about each page:


  4. Edit a Page (for web pages you have permission to edit):
    1. Navigate to a page you can edit. When you are on an editable page, a blue Edit button appears in the lower right.
    2. Click on the blue Edit button to begin making changes.
    3. When editing a Drupal web page your changes are now automatically saved.
    4. IMPORTANT: The FIRST time you edit a web page that has a Hero Photo (the large photo at the top of the page), you MUST:

      1. Click on the Hero Photo section to open up the options.



      2. Click on the thumbnail image once to apply the Crop 16:9 to the Hero image.
         

      3. When you click on the Crop image thumbnail image, you will see a "cropping applied" message in two places.


    5. Edit your page Title, Intro Text, Body, Page Widgets.

    6. Describe your changes in a Revision log message on the upper right, so that you can easily retrace your changes later, if necessary.
    7. When all your web page edits are complete, scroll to the bottom of the page.

    8. If you want to publish your changes to the page, check that the Change to menu is set to "Published" click Save.



    9. If you want to Unpublish the page (hiding it from the public), choose Unpublish & Archive from the Change to menu and click Save.
    10. After clicking Save, message appears to confirm that your edits were saved.



  5. IMPORTANT: Editing the department site menus is currently limited to the Web Team.
    Please send us a request for menu change at fredonia.edu/webrequest.

  6. To search for a Page, Office block or Reusable Block you can edit by its title or other properties, click on Manage > Content to view the Content Listing page.