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General information

 

 

 

Software specification

Using Drupal 8, PostgreSQL 9.6.5, PHP 7.1 and Apache 2.4.6

 

 

Content types

Article

The articles have a mandatory field called "Category" that is used to create the URL path and to filter them.

There are two images fields, the rectangular and the square, depends on the design we will use the one or the other.

The editor can use the field Tags, used in the Archiv page "/content/journal/archiv" to search by the Facet Tag.

There are two fields where the author can write text, the body and the marginal. The first one it is displayed in the center of the page,

and the second one is used to create the right sidebar of the page.

Display Mode

Journal/Overview Teaser Square

As the name says, it is used in the Journal Overview Page to create the teaser with Square Image.

Journal/Overview Teaser Rectangular

As the name says, it is used in the Journal Overview Page to create the teaser with Rectangular Image.

Auxiliar 

This content is only editable for the Drupal Administrators, and it was created to create in Drupal the Person and the Kalenderblatt blocks that later it will be filled with content in the Frontend. 

It is also used to create the /journal page, that is a collection of blocks, when this page was created, the Panels module was not ready to be used.

Basic Page

It is used to create general pages content that is not articles, it has only two fields, body and marginal and they are used as the ones in Articles.

DDB Newsletter

Using the simplenews module it was created this content type with a specific field structure to follow the DDB Newsletter design.

Some part of this content is filled it by default like the footer,  these contents can be sent as a normal newsletter.

This content uses Paragraphs in is structure, in order to have more than one element with the same HTML structure but allow to the editor to decide how many elements whants to create in each content.

Event

What makes different this content are the fields Date period, Place and Category Event.

The place is a simple text but the Category Event is a taxonomy, that when the user type in the field will check if exits already in the system.

Those fields are used as facets in the Events page /ueber-uns/termine that includes a facet calendar.

Display Mode

Default

Uses when it is selected the detail page of the content

Teaser

This display mode is used in /ueber-uns/termine in each item of the list.


Exhibition

This content type is used only to create in DDB Journal some teasers list, but the detail page of those contents are not available from anonymous users,

it is used the external link URL to link those exhibitions with the element from http://ausstellungen.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

Display Mode

Journal/Overview Teaser Square

As the name says, it is used in the Journal Overview Page to create the teaser with Square Image.

Journal/Overview Teaser Rectangular

As the name says, it is used in the Journal Overview Page to create the teaser with Rectangular Image.

Teaser

This display mode is used in /journal/ausstellungen in each item of the list.

FAQ

Created using the FAQ module from Drupal. It has a category field to be used as a filter.

Display Mode

Default

Uses when it is selected the detail page of the content

Hilfe

It has the same fields as Basic Page, created as another content type in order to have the content separated.

Display Mode

Default

Uses when it is selected the detail page of the content

Display Modes


Special Pages

Help

FAQ

Journal

/admin/structure/views/view/fragen_und_antworten?destination=/de/admin/structure/views


List of Items Page

Custom modules

DDB also interest

Embetty Twitter Block

Event Search

Node hider

Custom block types

Most Read

 

Entityqueues

Media

Media types

Image Styles

Responsive image styles

User Roles

Custom block types

Languages

Search/Facet

 

 

Layout/Theme

Custom Module "DDB Journal" that is a sub-theme from the Bootstrap Theme, that it uses Bootstrap 3. 

Block layout

 

 

Cronjobs

Drupal Cron runs every 3 hours, checking the current status of the site, including checking the new version of modules/core.

Cache

The global configuration of the cache for all the pages is 1 day, apart of that we are using a module called "Advanced page expiration" to decide which pages

should not be cached, we are using it to don't cache the /journal page, in order to see the person block rotate.

We have learned that the module is very sensitive and if the URL that you don't want to cache uses some parameters you have to put all the options with all the parameters to don't be cached.

More Info: https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/en/admin/config/development/performance/ape

 

 

Newsletter/E-Mails

The DDB anonymous users don't use DDB Journal to subscribe to the newsletter but it uses to send the newsletters created also in DDB Journal.

The DDB Journal Editors before sending the newsletter will take that newsletter subscriptions list and it will import them into DDB Journal 

under https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/de/admin/people/simplenews/import 

 

The DDB Journal Editors create a new content DDB Newsletter and will send to the subscribers, two versions of newsletters will be created,

the email version and the browser version. To create the email version it is used inline CSS and absolute URL for the images.

There are some background images used in the title that it will appear only in the Browser version but not in the email.

 

 

Publication of content in the Frontend

If a content is published in the production DDB Journal automatically it will be published in the Frontend.

If the URL in DDB Journal of the content is https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/de/journal/aktuell/title-content

The URL in the Frontend is https://deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/content/journal/aktuell/title-content

 

Frontend knows if it is a DDB Journal Page if the path starts with /content, then I will get the Drupal Page and it will rewrite the relative URL from the 

images, files, links to make it absolute linked to the DDB Journal URL instead of the Frontend URL.

All these functions are done in the ContentService, ContentController... in ddb-common

Publication of menus in the Frontend

The Frontend is calling depending on the current language to these REST API to get the menus and to save it in the cache.

https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/en/api/menu_items/main?client=DDB-NEXT&_format=json

https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/en/api/menu_items/footer?client=DDB-NEXT&_format=json

https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/de/api/menu_items/main?client=DDB-NEXT&_format=json

https://cms.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/de/api/menu_items/footer?client=DDB-NEXT&_format=json

 

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