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Overview
1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)
2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites
3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records
via LDAP
Overview: Modules• Aggregator (optional Drupal core)• Views– Views data export – for creating CSV or XML feeds
• Feeds– Feeds Tamper– Feeds XPath Parser – for incoming XML feeds
• LDAP• UUID• Services - allows a Drupal site to provide web
services via multiple interfaces (REST, XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, SOAP, AMF, etc.)
Not covered: using the LDAP module for user provisioning, user authentication, or user authorization.
Overview
1. Creating outgoing content– whole-site RSS publishing
http://yoursite.com/rss.xml– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)
2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites
3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records
via LDAP
Demo: Exporting RSS Feed
• Create and populate content type to export via feed
• Create a View and use the Feed plugin• If needed, edit content type to add fields to
Teaser view mode • Note that all fields will be contained in the
<Description>
Demo: Exporting CSV and XML Feeds
• Install Views Data Export module• In a View, add your fields, then– add Data export (default is CSV)– (or) add Data export and modify to XML
If exporting XML, check your feed to make sure it is not malformed.
Overview
1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)
2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites
3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records
via LDAP
Incoming: Aggregator
• Optional core module Aggregator• Does not make nodes • Useful for simple uncomplicated presentation
of incoming feeds
Incoming: Feeds
• Can import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records
• Receives RSS/Atom, CSV, OPML• Feeds XPathParser lets you map bits from raw
XML feed to fields• Feeds ImageGrabber lets you import images
to an image field• Feeds Tamper lets you massage fields
Overview
1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)
2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds– Migrating content between Drupal sites
3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records
via LDAP
Overview
1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)
2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds– Migrating content between Drupal sites
3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records
via LDAP
Overview
1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)
2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds– Migrating content between Drupal sites
3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records
via LDAP
A word of warning:Creating a directory from EDS does NOT get rid of these problems:1.incorrect data2.disliked data3.data curation responsibility4.expiring outdated nodes
EDS to nodes via LDAP
• You will need to get an account to access EDS: need two people who are FERPA-trained to be account holders.
• You will need to have the LDAP Extension to PHP installed on your server.
• Multivalue attributes will not get into a multi-value field unless you hack the module
So you’ve decided to LDAP your Directory. . .
Now that you have your EDS account and your server is set up . . . •Decide what attributes you want http://sia.uits.arizona.edu/eds_attributes•Create content type to hold people•Set up your LDAP Server•Start running some test queries
Feed Importer
• For testing: create a query that returns a handful of records
• Create a new content type just for the Importer to attach to.
• Set up the Feed Importer and do your mapping
• Test it and see if it creates a handful of nodes