Drupal 7

To use the CAS PEM certificate installed on websites hosted on OIT webhosting, please use the following path:

 /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

Issue

After updating to the 2.9 version of the GT Theme, the formatting is broken for custom content types (such as Super Blocks and Slideshow Carousels), usually those created via the Features module. Often the types show CSS classes as text instead of as visual styling.

Migration, not upgrade

Drupal 8, released in November of 2015, was a major rewrite of the underlying Drupal code (Drupal's core engine and APIs). Because of the multitude of changes, there is no direct in-place upgrade path to go from any earlier version of Drupal to Drupal 8 or later. Instead, Drupal 7 and earlier sites must be migrated to Drupal 8 or later, which involves setting up a whole new Drupal 8 website and copying into it (manually or automatically) the content of the older website.

If your Georgia Tech Drupal website has the GT Editor feature package installed, then it also has the Linkit module, which gives you an enhanced interface for creating links to local content.

Accessibility and Usability of Links

To comply with accessibility law, and good sense usability guidelines, always make the visible text of your link something that clearly indicates what the website visitor is going to be taken to when following that link.  Some examples of improper link text include:

When (and When Not) to Use a Table

Tables should only be used for the display of tabular data (data that is connected to one or more headings).

Do not use tables for any of the following reasons:

The following instructions are for adding an image or picture to a page when your site is using GT Editor or otherwise has the IMCE module installed.

Important!  Be sure to properly resize your image file before you upload it to your site.

Many campus Drupal websites have either the What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) text editor called CKEditor, or the custom built specialized version of CKEditor known as "GT Editor".

The table below describes many of the control buttons you will find on the CKEditor or GT Editor toolbar.  If your control buttons don't look like these, you should ask your site administrator or local web developer to look into upgrading your site to the latest version of CKEditor.

Please see the introduction to contrib (third-party) modules before installing anything listed on this page.

The following information is provided as-is with no warranty or guarantees of any kind!  While members of the campus community have recommended the following modules for their listed purposes, it's perfectly possible you could blow up your Drupal website if you don't know what you're doing and install them incorrectly or alongside other modules that are incompatible.

Issue

You are seeing a red error message in Drupal stating that a Drupal profile is missing from the file system.  Common examples are "gt_profile" and "gt_install", but the issue could happen with any profile.

The Georgia Tech GT Editor module for Drupal 7 is built around CKEditor, but provides a great deal more control over what content editors can create, preventing them from doing things that might be dangerous (embedding JavaScript, for example.)

This is a community supported project, meaning it is not officially supported by OIT or Institute Communications.

GT Editor Guides and Tutorials