Drupal 8 Distributions: Detailed Contents of the IAC Distribution

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• Drupal 8.7.x with custom profile “gt_profile”

  • Hides the Language and Installation Type screens and auto-selects the GT Profile installation

  • Pre-fills some of the fields on the final installation page to speed up the install process

  • Activates the gt3 theme, and adds and positions blocks from gt3_themeblocks so that site is fully themed out-of-the-box

  • Activates most of the modules listed below, installing some in an explicit order to make sure they install correctly

  • Sets User Creation to "Administrators Only" to keep people from creating their own accounts

  • Sets Personal Contact Forms to "Disabled" so users aren't bothered by other users

• Theme: gt3 - Currently a variant of the minimal branding GT2 theme

• Third Party Modules:

  • admin_toolbar - Provides hover-dropdown access to all Drupal administrative functions via the admin toolbar

  • cas - Integration with CAS for GT Account Username authentication support

  • paragraphs - Supports nested data structures that can be used to build custom layouts and specialty forms

  • redirect - Automatically creates 301 redirects when a page URL alias is changed

  • API / Support Modules

    • ckeditor_a11ychecker - Provides an accessibility checker within CKEditor

    • ckeditor_balloonpanel - API module needed by ckeditor_a11ychecker

    • ckeditor_font - Provides font size and typeface panels in CKEditor (only the size panel is being utilized)

    • entity_reference_revisions - API module needed by paragraphs

    • externalauth - API module needed by cas

• Custom Modules:

  • Theming / Styling Tools - See the Web Theming Infrastructure page for full details.

    • gt3_themeblocks - Georgia Tech theme block implementations for use with the “gt3” theme

      • Georgia Tech Header Bar

      • Georgia Tech Footer Bar

      • Site Header Bar

      • Site Menu Bar

      • Site Footer Bar

    • iac_paragraphs - Custom layout styles for landing pages with a Georgia Tech look-and-feel

      • Standard Section

      • Two Columns (Five width configurations)

      • Full Width Image Row

      • Embedded Content

      • Horizontal Blurbs (3-across and 4-across)

      • Accordion Set

      • Captioned Image Set

      • Manual Slide Show

      • Horizontal Tab Panels

      • Landing Page Headlines (AKA "hero" images) (Text Over Image and Text Beside Image formats)

    • iac_ckeditor - All-in-one setup and configuration wizard for a more familiar CKEditor experience:

      • Pre-installs the CKEditor Accessibility Checker, CKEditor Balloon Panel, and CKEditor Font modules.

      • Pre-configures the button bar for "Full HTML" and "Basic HTML", adding the Styles and Font Size drop-down menus while hiding unwanted buttons.

      • Pre-configures the Format drop-down menu to remove the H1 tag and add the Code tag.

      • Pre-configures the Font Size drop-down menu to present all available sizes in terms of percentages for accessibility compliance.

      • Adds a set of custom Georgia Tech inspired styles on the Styles drop-down menu.

  • UI/UX Enhancement Tools

    • iac_accessibility - Accessibility information panel on node editing pages

    • iac_heading_formatter - Field output formatter to present a text field into a heading (H1-H6)

    • iac_mediaspace - Text filter for converting MediaSpace oEmbed links into embedded video players

    • iac_unpublished - Allows content editors to unpublish content and publish unpublished content

  • Administrative Tools

    • iac_admin_tools - A collection of useful views of nodes, users, url aliases, paragraphs, etc.

    • iac_rest_status - Provides a JSON formatted data bundle of details about the current site, useful for importing into a central site cataloging system

    • gt3_custom - Container for site specific CSS, PHP routines, etc.