Q: What is Drupal?
A: Drupal is a new tool that will replace Tridion for all Solvay websites.
This tool works as a content management system in which we can create/delete/modify all of the website’s content.
All of the content on a Drupal website is stored and treated as "nodes".
A node is any piece of individual content, such as a page, press release, article, location or a contact entry.
As a solvay.com contributor, you will have access to 2 environments:
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This is the “sandbox” platform which will enable you to test Drupal features and to practice whenever you need. You can easily recognize this environment thanks to the yellow banner at the top of the back-office:
The test environment is updated after each technical release. It means all contents you might have populated could disappear since content cannot be migrated from test to production environment. Thus we advise you to not create or prepare real content into this environment but to use the “draft” feature available in production. Also, as it is also the environment used by developers to test their development, you might notice regularly some bugs or changes compared to the production environment. | This is the environment to use when you need to create content for solvay.com. You can use this environment also if you want to prepare your content by using the draft options before publishing live. This environment is visually different from test environment with the red banner at the top.
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Contributors Manual
Common Properties & Fields
Title - Main content title used in full, teaser, search… displays and meta-tags.
Body - Main content of your page.
Summary - Used to set the main description of the page (SEO, meta-tags).
The Meta description gives a summary of the page to search engines. Search engines often display it underneath the title tag in search engine results page. Some search engines such as Google, might ignore it to pull meta description text from your web page content. Meta description can be any length, but Google generally display around 160-200 characters. Although Google displays around 160 to 200 characters we recommend to write longer description (250-300). These short paragraphs are an opportunity to advertise your content to searches. It must be adapted to the content of each page it describes and unique from all other pages.
Teaser (for Press releases and News/Stories content types)
Dates - The publish date is displayed in the banner, just beneath the title. It is only mandatory for Press releases, stories and news.
Also note that the event template has specific date fields where you can specify the begin date of your event and the end date.
Links
You can add two types of links:
Internal Links (linking to other Solvay.com content)
To add an internal link just start typing the title of the internal page - 10 pages maximum will be suggested, you can select the one you want.
A second choice is to copy and paste the node ID of the page you want to redirect within the field "URL" - You can find the node within the URL of the back office page, as seen below.
External Links (outside Solvay.com)
Copy/paste the whole URL path in the link field.
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