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Drupal Standard Features

ICT Division

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Category Feature Notes

Content types Blogs Besides a full list of blogging functionalities, Users

are able to insert emoticons via the smiley's

input filter.

Documents Uses a "page with attachments" as a document.Additional modules are available from

drupal.org to extend the Document capabilities,

including file-browser type navigation("filedepot" module), or connections to

standards-compliant enterprise documentsystems (via "cmis" module) such as SharePoint,

Alfresco, Documentum, and Nuxeo

Discussions Provides threaded discussion types. Drupal

Commons provides the ability for administratorsto expose controls to users giving them options

on how threads are to be displayed (collapsed

/ expanded by default, etc.)

Events Has capability to list upcoming (or past) events

for a Group or Space

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Content types Wikis Many different wiki syntax' are supported via

different input filters (see below), including

mediawiki, twiki, markdown, textile, and

simplewiki.

Custom Content

types

Drupal Commons incorporates Drupal's

powerful Content Construction Kit (CCK), which

enables administrators (/site builders) to createarbitrary, custom content types. This combined

with Views is an extremely powerful capabilityneither Jive nor most other web systems provide.

CCK+Views has been the backbone of Drupal's

dominance in the web application/website

marketplace

Micro-blog /

status updates

Likes Twitter, Users are able to send messages to

each other with text comments or links to other

media

Polls A kind of voting, is a survey of public opinion

from a particular sample

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Content types RSS feeds In Commons, Group administrators can

configure the group to pull in RSS feeds from

any number of sources (displaying them in most-

recent first, interleaving feed items.)

Videos Drupal Commons has three video options,

though none are bundled in the default

distribution, and would need to beinstalled/configured. First, Commons allows users

to embed YouTube, Blip.tv, or other consumer-type videos into pages (via input filter

configuration). Second, Commons can

integrate with commercial video services such

as Brightcove, Kaltura, and others (via

installation & configuration of appropriatemodules). Third, site owners can install ffmpeg

(open source video encoding engine) on their

server, and utilize an open source player

(jwplayer or flowplayer) for playback

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Content types Alerts, notices to

community

Comments Drupal Commons enables Admins to set

defaults for comment availability (and ability toadd comments by role), and also enables

authors to control comment availability on a

per-page basis. Jive does not allow this degreeof control

Input filters for text

fields

Provides a concept called input filters, that can

act on text entered in text fields, primarily to

prevent users from entering HTML/CSS/JS thatwould render a site vulnerable to cross-site

scripting attacks, but also to assist in identifyingcontent for specific output display methods. An

input filter for shortening long URLs is also

available

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Content

creation

WYSIWYG editor Can be enabled / disabled per-field, or per-user

in Commons (and not in Jive). User can also

disable WYSIWYG in Commons (to enter HTML,

code, or other items) as desired. Applies to all

forms of adding text (blog, discussion, ..)

Automated

comment spamblocking

Drupal Commons can use the Mollom spam

blocking service, included with an AcquiaNetwork subscription (or available separately

from Mollom.com). Jive provides no automatedfiltering - which can be an issue on publicly-

facing sites. (See Jive's own community site.)

Even though it detects obscene language on its

own, Mollom also allows for blacklisting of

specific words.

Workflow Drupal Commons has extensive capabilities for

page creation workflow via severalmechanisms.

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Content item

display

Avatars Author's avatars are (or can be) displayed in

tabular listings of content; an accompanying

username can be displayed. Either the avatar,

username, or both can link to the author's profile

User-friendly URLs In Commons, all content has friendly URLs, which

helps both with usabiltiy and SEO for public

communities. For example, blog posts, grouphomes, etc. have friendly URLs and discussion

threads. In addition, Drupal Commons caneither automatically create the URL, or allow the

author to specify the desired URL path directly

Email from site Drupal Commons provides fine-grained

subscription control, enabling the choice ofupdates on specific pages (as desired) or at a

complete group-level

Email to site from

user

Free community-provided add-on module

available for Drupal.

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Content item

display

Custom query

tables

Drupal Commons permits users with permission

the ability to create listings of information using

a GUI query-builder called Views. These listings

of content (or users, or anything else in the

database) can be displayed in a block onpages, or as a complete page listing, as an RSS

feed, or exposed via a web service interface.While this can be done in Jive, it is a

programmer-level task, whereas in Commons it

is a point-click task

Popular pages

block

In Drupal Commons, available two different

ways (depending on whether using Acquia

Network subscription (or on-premises Solr server),

or Drupal module plug-in)

Content

recommendation

With Drupal Commons, this is available either

when using Acquia Network (search)subscription or on-premises Solr sever

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Content

organization

Tags, Taxonomy Drupal Commons provides for both informal

tagging (folksonomy) and formal taxonomies

Tag clouds Commons provides for both site-wide tag

clouds and per-group tag clouds

Groups Provides "Group home pages" to organize

people & content. Commons provides moregranular control over group attributes by

separating Private/Public, listed/unlisted (in

Groups directory), and membership

management concepts

Pages Drupal Commons provides the ability for users

(with appropriate roles) to create web pages

that live outside of Groups. This enables a site tocombine both static content with community

capabilities

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Search Page content

search

Drupal Commons provides simple database

search by default; enhanced search providing

results biasing, content recommendations, and

other advanced features is available with an

Acquia Network (search) subscription, or via apremises-based Solr search server

Attachmentsearch

Can search MS Office document types, andPDF files

User search /

External search

Utilizes Lucene for content indexing and search,

which can index content from external systems

(if an appropriate connector to the externalsystem is available.)

Faceted search Faceted search available with either an AcquiaNetwork subscription, or premises-based Solr

search server

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Users

Relationships

User profiles Customizable in Commons via addition of

arbitrary fields

User reputation

badges

In Commons, can have one badge that gets

"better" as more points are earned, or multiplebadges with separate point triggers, or both

Friend Allows users to watch the activity of each other (A two-way relationship)

Status Commons' Recent Activity block shows other

users what you're doing, or shows you what your

friends are doing and what's going on in yourGroups

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Administration Multiple

deployment

options

Offers self-hosted, or fully hosted. Also supports

customer code modifications on either

deployment

Multilingual In Commons, content created by users can beorganized by language. Workflow tools exist to

support translation effort. Administrative

interface is localizable; localizations currentlyunderway (by community) for French

Single Sign On

(SSO)

Drupal Commons supports a wide variety of SSO

schemes; implementation of a specific scheme

typically requires a short professional servicesengagement

Scalability Drupal Commons scales in typical web scalefashion - load balancers, fronting multiple web

heads that use 1-2 database server back-ends -with or without proxy caches to handle static

content (pages for unauthenticated users, CSS,

images, )

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