Drupal Standard Features

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Drupal Standard Features

Category
Content types

Feature
Blogs

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Besides a full list of blogging functionalities, Users are able to insert emoticons via the smiley's input filter. Uses a "page with attachments" as a document. Additional modules are available from drupal.org to extend the Document capabilities, including file-browser type navigation ("filedepot" module), or connections to standards-compliant enterprise document systems (via "cmis" module) such as SharePoint, Alfresco, Documentum, and Nuxeo Provides threaded discussion types. Drupal Commons provides the ability for administrators to expose controls to users giving them options on how threads are to be displayed (collapsed / expanded by default, etc.) Has capability to list upcoming (or past) events for a Group or Space
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Documents

Discussions

Events

Drupal Standard Features

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Content types

Feature
Wikis

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Many different wiki syntax' are supported via different input filters (see below), including mediawiki, twiki, markdown, textile, and simplewiki. Drupal Commons incorporates Drupal's powerful Content Construction Kit (CCK), which enables administrators (/site builders) to create arbitrary, custom content types. This combined with Views is an extremely powerful capability neither Jive nor most other web systems provide. CCK+Views has been the backbone of Drupal's dominance in the web application/website marketplace Likes Twitter, Users are able to send messages to each other with text comments or links to other media A kind of voting, is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample
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Custom Content types

Micro-blog / status updates Polls

Drupal Standard Features

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Content types

Feature
RSS feeds

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In Commons, Group administrators can configure the group to pull in RSS feeds from any number of sources (displaying them in mostrecent first, interleaving feed items.) Drupal Commons has three video options, though none are bundled in the default distribution, and would need to be installed/configured. First, Commons allows users to embed YouTube, Blip.tv, or other consumertype videos into pages (via input filter configuration). Second, Commons can integrate with commercial video services such as Brightcove, Kaltura, and others (via installation & configuration of appropriate modules). Third, site owners can install ffmpeg (open source video encoding engine) on their server, and utilize an open source player (jwplayer or flowplayer) for playback
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Videos

Drupal Standard Features

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Content types

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Alerts, notices to community Comments

Notes

Drupal Commons enables Admins to set defaults for comment availability (and ability to add comments by role), and also enables authors to control comment availability on a per-page basis. Jive does not allow this degree of control

Input filters for text Provides a concept called input filters, that can fields act on text entered in text fields, primarily to prevent users from entering HTML/CSS/JS that would render a site vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, but also to assist in identifying content for specific output display methods. An input filter for shortening long URLs is also available

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Content creation

Feature
WYSIWYG editor

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Can be enabled / disabled per-field, or per-user in Commons (and not in Jive). User can also disable WYSIWYG in Commons (to enter HTML, code, or other items) as desired. Applies to all forms of adding text (blog, discussion, ..) Drupal Commons can use the Mollom spam blocking service, included with an Acquia Network subscription (or available separately from Mollom.com). Jive provides no automated filtering - which can be an issue on publiclyfacing sites. (See Jive's own community site.) Even though it detects obscene language on its own, Mollom also allows for blacklisting of specific words. Drupal Commons has extensive capabilities for page creation workflow via several mechanisms.

Automated comment spam blocking

Workflow

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Content item display

Feature
Avatars

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Author's avatars are (or can be) displayed in tabular listings of content; an accompanying username can be displayed. Either the avatar, username, or both can link to the author's profile In Commons, all content has friendly URLs, which helps both with usabiltiy and SEO for public communities. For example, blog posts, group homes, etc. have friendly URLs and discussion threads. In addition, Drupal Commons can either automatically create the URL, or allow the author to specify the desired URL path directly Drupal Commons provides fine-grained subscription control, enabling the choice of updates on specific pages (as desired) or at a complete group-level Free community-provided add-on module available for Drupal.

User-friendly URLs

Email from site

Email to site from user

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Content item display

Feature
Custom query tables

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Drupal Commons permits users with permission the ability to create listings of information using a GUI query-builder called Views. These listings of content (or users, or anything else in the database) can be displayed in a block on pages, or as a complete page listing, as an RSS feed, or exposed via a web service interface. While this can be done in Jive, it is a programmer-level task, whereas in Commons it is a point-click task In Drupal Commons, available two different ways (depending on whether using Acquia Network subscription (or on-premises Solr server), or Drupal module plug-in) With Drupal Commons, this is available either when using Acquia Network (search) subscription or on-premises Solr sever

Popular pages block

Content recommendation

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Content organization

Feature
Tags, Taxonomy Tag clouds Groups

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Drupal Commons provides for both informal tagging (folksonomy) and formal taxonomies Commons provides for both site-wide tag clouds and per-group tag clouds Provides "Group home pages" to organize people & content. Commons provides more granular control over group attributes by separating Private/Public, listed/unlisted (in Groups directory), and membership management concepts Drupal Commons provides the ability for users (with appropriate roles) to create web pages that live outside of Groups. This enables a site to combine both static content with community capabilities

Pages

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Search

Feature
Page content search

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Drupal Commons provides simple database search by default; enhanced search providing results biasing, content recommendations, and other advanced features is available with an Acquia Network (search) subscription, or via a premises-based Solr search server Can search MS Office document types, and PDF files Utilizes Lucene for content indexing and search, which can index content from external systems (if an appropriate connector to the external system is available.) Faceted search available with either an Acquia Network subscription, or premises-based Solr search server

Attachment search User search / External search

Faceted search

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Users Relationships

Feature
User profiles User reputation badges Friend Status

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Customizable in Commons via addition of arbitrary fields In Commons, can have one badge that gets "better" as more points are earned, or multiple badges with separate point triggers, or both Allows users to watch the activity of each other (A two-way relationship) Commons' Recent Activity block shows other users what you're doing, or shows you what your friends are doing and what's going on in your Groups

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Drupal Standard Features

Category
Administration

Feature
Multiple deployment options Multilingual

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Offers self-hosted, or fully hosted. Also supports customer code modifications on either deployment In Commons, content created by users can be organized by language. Workflow tools exist to support translation effort. Administrative interface is localizable; localizations currently underway (by community) for French Drupal Commons supports a wide variety of SSO schemes; implementation of a specific scheme typically requires a short professional services engagement Drupal Commons scales in typical web scale fashion - load balancers, fronting multiple web heads that use 1-2 database server back-ends with or without proxy caches to handle static content (pages for unauthenticated users, CSS, images, )
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Single Sign On (SSO)

Scalability