Posted by itangalo on October 26, 2011 at 1:57pm
Last updated by itangalo on Wed, 2011年11月02日 23:05

This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

Advanced site building is a very large skill set and will probably need several pages to describe it properly. Here is some kind of start. //Itangalo

Someone with advanced site building skills is able to

• Use advanced configuration in Views (see separate list)
• Make well-informed decisions about whether particular site information should be a separate content type, a part of an existing content type, or some other entity
• Make well-informed decisions about when to use what module (in contrast to picking any module that works for a particular task)
• Manage at least basic content access by using contributed modules
• With fairly high accuracy tell what can be done with configuration, and what will require custom coding
• Have a basic idea of what configuration will be exportable, and what won't
• Have a basic idea of what configuration will be performant, and what won't
• Have a basic idea of what configuration will be translatable, and what won't
• Have a basic idea of what configuration will be search enging friendly, and what won't
• Know the purpose of most top 200 modules on drupal.org
• Use most important framwork modules (see separate list)
• Do advanced configuration with at least a few of the important framework modules (see separate list)
• ...

Someone with advanced site building skills is able to do the following with Views

• Rewrite and/or exclude fields to change their output
• Group results
• Set up exposed filters, sort criteria and pager settings
• Use relationships
• Use contextual filters (including validation, Views title altering and reactions if no filter value is present)
• Create menu tabs and default menu tabs
• Make logical groups of filters
• Use attachment and feed displays
• Make well-informed decisions about when to create new views or add new displays to existing ones
• Make well-informed decisions about which displays should have overridden settings, and which should define default settings
• Install and use modules that provide additional plugins and handlers (such as slideshows, maps, bulk operations, Entity Views Attach, Semantic Views...)
• ...

Someone with basic site building skills has tried most of these modules and has extended knowledge about at least a few of them

Note: These modules are listed because they are more of frameworks than single-purpose modules. I think each of these deserves a list of expected skills, possibly at different levels.

• Features (see also the skill set about configuration export)
• Entity Reference
• Relation
• Flag
• Page manager
• Panels
• Display suite
• Rules
• Context
• Entity Views Attach
• Views Bulk Operations
• Organic Groups
• Drupal Commerce
• Content Access
• ACL(?)
• Internationalization
• ...

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