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Tested a lot of patches and created a lot of issues. Some of them were (partly) fixed in this project. The list below contains all issues we created patches for within the project.
FortyTwo Admin theme - several design improvements and bugfixes
Group module - several usability fixes
https://www.drupal.org/node/2797793
https://www.drupal.org/node/2683039
https://www.drupal.org/node/2865085
https://www.drupal.org/node/2867858
https://www.drupal.org/node/2867839
https://www.drupal.org/node/2867802
Group subgroup module - adding functionality such as permission propagation - https://www.drupal.org/node/2736233
Groupmenu module - completing the functionality for providing menu’s per group - https://www.drupal.org/node/2716443
Samlauth module - added features for easy SAML integration
https://www.drupal.org/node/2816991
https://www.drupal.org/node/2670118
https://www.drupal.org/node/2817005
https://www.drupal.org/node/2816995
https://www.drupal.org/node/2816997
Simple oauth module - fixed issues
https://www.drupal.org/node/2858161
https://www.drupal.org/node/2821436
Media module in core - partly contributed with project time - https://www.drupal.org/node/2831274
Viewsreference module - added option to limit results - https://www.drupal.org/node/2860736
Paragraphs module - added fix to alter paragraph forms more easily
The Scalda student, parent and employee portals are built in a single Drupal 8 backend with custom REST web services and an Angular decoupled front-end. Using this portal, users can access all relevant information, like their schedule, grades, exams, news etc. and receive notifications for important events related to their study or class.
As an educational institute Scalda wanted to be able to inform students, employees and students’ parents, about the school itself, student grades, exam dates, schedules, etcetera. Scalda therefore developed a portal strategy to inform their users in a transparent and personal way.
About the project
There were multiple main objectives:
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The first and most paramount objective was to combine the data collected from multiple systems and provide a single platform where the users can find all relevant information. The second most important objective was to provide a user friendly way for hundreds of editors to manage all content, and target all content to the right audience. In the developed communication strategy, it is imporant to be able to target a single class of student, but also target more generic groups of users based on things like their study, location or cluster.
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Additionally, the user experience was very important. The portal replaces the need for users to interact with several other systems, which is already a big improvement. The designs and UX were developed by an external design agency and implemented using Angular.
We provided a single platform where the users can find all relevant information (news, grades, exams, schedules, events, projects) in a personalized way. The portal replaces the need for users to interact with several other systems. The advantage for the users is a quick overview of all the information they need to accomplish tasks and activities faster and easier than before. They do this in a nice and user friendly portal all in the look and feel of the Scalda online identity. This results in a more efficient way of working and studying and a higher student and employee satisfaction.
With the new Drupal 8 based CMS, the client has access to a clean and easy-to-work-with interface. The client has the ability to create groups and manage all users, roles and permissions as desired. Besides the group management, the client has an extensive set of pre-designed options to create the content in a flexible way.
All data collected from the custom web services is available at the front-end according to the clients’ liking. Because of the successful decoupling of front- and backend, we can easily develop new ways of showing content to the end user; these can be phone apps or other subsites.
Scalda: "We are very pleased with how Drupal and the decoupled front-end were implemented. It makes the portal very flexible for future goals."
Why Drupal was chosen
From the start Scalda also made it clear that they would like to be able to develop an app that connects to the portals so users can receive push notifications when new information is available. We developed a Drupal CMS with custom REST services and a decoupled front-end so it’s relatively easy to connect future apps or front-ends to the Drupal CMS.
Technical Specifications
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