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Rules

Let's make Drupal more Dynamic & Interactive

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4 Wheels of Drupal

• 1. CCK – used to create different types of contents
• 2. Views – used to show various kind of data outputs
• 3. Panels – used to place multiple layouts easily
• 4. Rules – used to make Drupal dynamic & interactive

They make Drupal different from other CMSs.

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Decision Making in a Drupal site...

Some of my client requests.....

• 1. Want to send different acknowledgement emails

to different user Roles when they create certain kind of Content.

• 2. Want to get notification emails whenever a user

upload a new document to the website using certain kind of Content.

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Some of my client requests.....

• 3. Want to notify to complete profile when a newly

registered member log in for the first time.

• 4. Want to alert members with uncomplete profiles

to update whenever they log in to the website.

• 5. Want to encourage the user to upload more, after

they created a certain content to the system.

Decision Making in a Drupal site...

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I'm not sure, whether other CMSs can support those kind of decision makings and actions easily or not.

Decision Making in a Drupal site...

Yes, Drupal Rules module (+ other modules) can do more than those examples.

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Drupal has built-in Triggers and Actions to do some interactive functionalities. Such as

• Sending email to admin (or an email) when a new

user registered

• Auto promote a content type to front page when it is

published

• more on http://drupal.org/node/199254

Drupal Built-in Trigger & Action

Rules module can do more than triggers....

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• 1. Allows site administrators to define conditionally

executed actions based on occurring events (known as reactive or ECA rules)

Rules Module

An excerpt from drupal.org...

• 2. It's a replacement with more features for the trigger

module in core.

• 3. The successor of the workflow-ng module.
• 4. 32462 sites are using Rules module.

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• 1. Send customized mails to notify your users about

important changes

Some Features at a Glance

An excerpt from drupal.org...

• 2. Build flexible content publishing workflows
• 3. Create custom redirections, system messages,

breadcrumbs, ..

• 4. Other modules may use the rules module's API to

provide new events, conditions, actions, rule sets as well as default rules

• 5. Flexible scheduling system.

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• 6. Users can share their customizations by using the

built-in import/export feature.

Some Features at a Glance

An excerpt from drupal.org...

• 7. Modular input evaluation system - for example the

Token module and use every action.

• 8. It is developed with site performance in mind, so it

makes use of diverse caching routines to speed up rule evaluation.

• 9. Capable of importing workflow-ng rules as far as all

involved modules were properly ported to rules.

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• 1. Rules module

Creating a Rule

Requirements

• 2. Token module
• 3. Idea..... (probably requests from the clients...)

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Resources

Rules module http://drupal.org/project/rules Documentation 1.x/D6 http://drupal.org/node/298486 Tutorials 1.x/D6 http://drupal.org/node/298482 Rules group http://groups.drupal.org/rules Modules integrated to Rules http://groups.drupal.org/rules/rules-modules Quick intro video Showing a message to a logged in user http://blip.tv/file/4281259 FAQ http://groups.drupal.org/rules/faq Google “Drupal Rules”+tutorial|video|how-to

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Thank You

Maung System Engineer/Developer mmshare.org myanmarlanguage.org

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