Hi all
I have been told to establish a new intranet for the company that I work in and since we already have Drupal running our website/online store I think it would make sense to have it run the intranet as well.
I have been researching the WWW and the Drupal community to find out how to get started. Perhaps there is a suitable module for this that we can easily add to a stand-alone Drupal installation and build from there?
What is the most common way to get started with building an intranet in Drupal?
Thanks in advance Rasmus F.
Maybe http://drupal.org/project/domain?
Also go to http://drupal.org/project/modules and search for domain, there are quite a few modules.
Earnie
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Rasmus Falkenberg rf@humac.com wrote:
Hi all
I have been told to establish a new intranet for the company that I work in and since we already have Drupal running our website/online store I think it would make sense to have it run the intranet as well.
I have been researching the WWW and the Drupal community to find out how to get started. Perhaps there is a suitable module for this that we can easily add to a stand-alone Drupal installation and build from there?
What is the most common way to get started with building an intranet in Drupal?
Thanks in advance Rasmus F.
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Domain is probably a bad idea for an intranet, as it's likely that there are significantly different business requirements from between a public facing site and the intranet:
-different users -different content -different access controls
Domain module is great when you have multiple sites that need to share some content, but for an intranet I would recommend a standalone drupal instance or if that wasn't possible a multisite configuration with your public facing site.
I've seen many intranets built on the organic groups solution (http://drupal.org/project/og). Other than that, stick to the basic Drupal building blocks - content types, views, blocks, etc... I like context (http://drupal.org/project/context) for defining "landing pages" and laying out your main pages.
Good luck!
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Maybe http://drupal.org/project/domain?
Also go to http://drupal.org/project/modules and search for domain, there are quite a few modules.
Earnie
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Rasmus Falkenberg rf@humac.com wrote:
Hi all
I have been told to establish a new intranet for the company that I work in and since we already have Drupal running our website/online store I think it would make sense to have it run the intranet as well.
I have been researching the WWW and the Drupal community to find out how to get started. Perhaps there is a suitable module for this that we can easily add to a stand-alone Drupal installation and build from there?
What is the most common way to get started with building an intranet in Drupal?
Thanks in advance Rasmus F.
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-- Earnie
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Hi You could take a look a open atrium (http://openatrium.com/)
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Dan Katz dan.katz@electricsage.comwrote:
Domain is probably a bad idea for an intranet, as it's likely that there are significantly different business requirements from between a public facing site and the intranet:
-different users -different content -different access controls
Domain module is great when you have multiple sites that need to share some content, but for an intranet I would recommend a standalone drupal instance or if that wasn't possible a multisite configuration with your public facing site.
I've seen many intranets built on the organic groups solution (http://drupal.org/project/og). Other than that, stick to the basic Drupal building blocks - content types, views, blocks, etc... I like context (http://drupal.org/project/context) for defining "landing pages" and laying out your main pages.
Good luck!
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Maybe http://drupal.org/project/domain?
Also go to http://drupal.org/project/modules and search for domain, there are quite a few modules.
Earnie
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Rasmus Falkenberg rf@humac.com
wrote:
Hi all
I have been told to establish a new intranet for the company that I
work in
and since we already have Drupal running our website/online store I
think it
would make sense to have it run the intranet as well.
I have been researching the WWW and the Drupal community to find out
how to
get started. Perhaps there is a suitable module for this that we can
easily
add to a stand-alone Drupal installation and build from there?
What is the most common way to get started with building an intranet in Drupal?
Thanks in advance Rasmus F.
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
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-- Dan Katz
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtndan
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Rasmus Falkenberg wrote:
Hi all
I have been told to establish a new intranet for the company that I work in and since we already have Drupal running our website/online store I think it would make sense to have it run the intranet as well.
I have been researching the WWW and the Drupal community to find out how to get started. Perhaps there is a suitable module for this that we can easily add to a stand-alone Drupal installation and build from there?
What is the most common way to get started with building an intranet in Drupal?
Kind of depends on what you mean by "intranet," but a Drupal instance, with access limited only to employees (and maybe business partners), sounds a lot like an Intranet to me. For internal access only, put it behind a firewall. For finer grained access control, and/or for remote/outside access, require log in for all access.
Beyond that, it's more a matter of what functions you want.
Miles Fidelman
I agree. An intranet is simply a network location accessible only by the people within the firewall. Typically the users access sites on it using an IP address. But no matter how they access it, a Drupal site on the intranet would run just like a Drupal site on the Internet. There need be no difference other than access, unless the content requirements etc. are different for the site. It is not much different than having a local version of a Drupal site running on your own machine, other than other people within the firewall can access it.
On Feb 12, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidelman@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Kind of depends on what you mean by "intranet," but a Drupal instance, with access limited only to employees (and maybe business partners), sounds a lot like an Intranet to me. For internal access only, put it behind a firewall. For finer grained access control, and/or for remote/outside access, require log in for all access.
Beyond that, it's more a matter of what functions you want.