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BuyAndSell.gc.ca is the Government of Canada's procurement information portal. It includes information for businesses and government employees about doing business with government departments. In 2012, we undertook a project to upgrade the site to Drupal 7. The site has yet to be publicly launched. This case study will include topics such as Migrating content from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 Using entities to model data Customing Search API Setting up a testing framework Using base themes, Features, and distributions
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DRUPAL 7 FOR GOVERNMENT: CASE STUDY
Alex DergachevCo-founder @evolvingweb
Business Problem:• Apply the new government look and feel• Add open data features (search!)• Make the site more accessible (WCAG)
Before / After
Who is the Site For?
• Businesses who want to do business with the government
• Government employees who need to buy goods + services
What did we Do?• Upgrade the site to Drupal 7• Migrate the content from D6 to D7• Set up custom entities to store contract data• Search API customizations• Set up a testing framework• Extended the government base theme
Site Upgrade• Reduced the number of modules in use• Content migration (meta tags, taxonomy,
special fields)• Testing suite to find any content change in the
site upgrade
Testing Framework
Google Refine Jenkins
&
SearchIntegration of Search API with custom entity types
Custom Offer Entity
Custom Contract Entity
Custom Import Script• Import contract data from CSV into custom
entity types• Re-index of site for search
Events Calendar
Responsive Design
Common Look + Feel
Accessibility Requirements• WCAG Compliance• Colour contrast• Keyboard control of drop down menus/
slideshow• Adjustments to calendar HTML
Light Editor
Moderation• Used the Workbench module for content
moderation
Development Environment• Jenkins to run testing suite• Separate environment to run multisite search• ApacheSolr
Modules We Used• Features• Panels• Context• Custom Breadcrumbs• Calendar/Date• i18n• Apache Solr• Entity API
QUESTIONS?
Alex Dergachev@dergachev or @evolvingweb on Twitter
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