Author: Paul Grotevant

Paul Grotevant is the Senior IT Manager of Web Content Management Solutions for Information Technology Services at the University of Texas at Austin.

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UT Drupal Kit 2.3 Release

Post author By Paul Grotevant
Post date July 22, 2016

ITS is happy to announce the immediate availability of UT Drupal Kit 2.3, the third maintenance release for our University distribution since the inclusion of the Forty Acres theme and the Page Builder module.

Additionally, we have also released a new “Add-On” feature for Events that can be downloaded separately and added to a Drupal Kit-based site.

The full description of this release, including the Events add-on, is available in Mark Fullmer’s July 1 blog post, “Coming Soon, UT Drupal Kit 2.3.”

How to Update the UT Drupal Kit

Complete instructions for updating a UT Drupal Kit site are available on the documentation wiki, including instructions for the patchfile-based approach that can be used to update sites hosted on UT Web.

Please review the release notes thoroughly, and always make backups of your code, files, and database before proceeding with an update!

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UT Drupal Kit 2.2 Release

ITS is happy to announce the immediate availability of UT Drupal Kit 2.2, the second maintenance release for our University distribution since the inclusion of the Forty Acres theme and the Page Builder module. Additionally, we have also released the first two sets of “Add-On” features that can be downloaded separately and added to a Drupal Kit-based site.

There are some major changes to the Forty Acres and STARTERKIT themes in this release that will necessitate some work for developers who have created a STARTERKIT-based subtheme in any previous version of the Drupal Kit. And leveraging some of the other new features in version 2.2 will require manual configuration changes for existing sites.

We have extensive guidance available for users updating from previous versions, but first let’s walk through some of the notable features of the distribution update…

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UT Drupal Kit Update – February 2016

Post author By Paul Grotevant
Post date February 16, 2016

We gave a presentation to the UT Drupal Users Group on Tuesday, February 16 to give the campus community a status update on the UT Drupal Kit since the 2.0 release last November.

The presentation was captured on video and is available for review on YouTube. Slides are available for download from the UT Drupal Users Group wiki.

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UT Drupal Kit 2.1 Release

Post author By Paul Grotevant
Post date February 1, 2016

ITS is happy to announce the immediate availability of UT Drupal Kit 2.1, the first maintenance release for our University distribution since the inclusion of the Forty Acres theme and the Page Builder module.

The most visible changes in this release are primarily CSS fixes/updates in the Forty Acres theme, but there are a few other goodies that we’ve thrown in based on feedback from early adopters. Additionally, since this is the first time that most site owners will be updating their UT Drupal Kit installations, we want to remind you about the documentation for updating, as well as tell you about a new update path that we’re rolling out for UT Web users.

First let’s walk through the most notable changes…

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UT Drupal Kit FYI Presentation

Post author By Paul Grotevant
Post date December 10, 2015

On December 9, 2015, staff from ITS Applications and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost gave an FYI presentation about UT Drupal Kit 2.0.

The presentation includes an overview and background of the Drupal Kit project, brief demonstrations of the capabilities of the Fort Acres theme and Page Builder module, and walkthroughs of two live sites that have already been built using the Drupal Kit.

A recording of this presentation is available to stream, and the slides are available to download.

Presentation Recording (Please note that the actual presentation does not begin until approx. 5:20 into the recording)
Presentation Slides, part 1
Presentation Slides, part 2

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UT Drupal Kit 2.0 is here!

Post author By Paul Grotevant
Post date November 18, 2015

ITS is proud to announce the release of version 2.0 of the UT Drupal Kit. The Drupal Kit is UT Austin’s custom Drupal distribution, which “aims to simplify development of websites on campus, standardize University brand templates, and improve accessibility compliance while allowing developers to retain control over customization.”

This exciting new release contains the first iteration of a Drupal theme, called “Forty Acres,” which implements the new UT Austin branding. The Drupal Kit also now includes a custom module called “Page Builder,” which provides page templates, flexible content widgets, and a drag-and-drop layout editor, all of which together will allow site owners to create pages that match the designs created by University Communications and Springbox as part of the Digital Experience project.

Extensive documentation aimed at both developers and site builders, including eight video tutorials, is available on the new UT Drupal Kit documentation wiki.

This release and the accompanying documentation, along with the UTLogin module for Drupal released earlier this year, represent the full realization of the original goals of the Drupal Foundation Project:

[A]n updated, tested and deployable version of Drupal; related Drupal modules; a university-branded theme; and the documentation necessary to use, support and maintain the distribution package.

We are very excited to share this work with the community, and look forward to seeing what people do with it! Stay tuned to this blog for more information about the Drupal Kit and other upcoming Drupal services from ITS.

There will be an FYI presentation about UT Drupal Kit 2.0 on December 9 at 10:30am in POB 2.402. More information is available on the FYI website.

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Hello World!

Post author By Paul Grotevant
Post date November 11, 2015

Welcome to the ITS Drupal Services blog. This space will be used for announcements about ITS Services such as the UT Drupal Kit and Managed and Hosted CMS.

We are looking forward to using this blog as a forum for increased engagement with the UT Drupal community. Please feel free to leave us comments and questions!