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Drupal as a Content Repository — a few months later 2

I’ve recently blogged about how we use Drupal as a Content Repository. I wanted to write a lessons learned follow up post to see what worked out and what we needed to adjust.

Where we are

We still use Drupal as a Content Repository and just consume it’s content data via webservices to let our application do the complicated rendering. We launched the external part of our content in November 2011 (see our Expat Magazine and our Country & City Guides) and the internal part in December (you need to request an account to see it). Development of both parts was smooth, but we reached some limits of what one can do with Drupal’s view module and we needed to adjust our “no custom code” to “as little custom code as possible”.

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Drupal as a Content Repository 0

As one of my first projects at InterNations we want to introduce rich content management functionality for internal usage. We have a custom made PHP application and want to publish a bunch of content to provide our customers with an even richer experience and greater service. Our requirements can be read along the lines of:

• Provide an easy to use interface for content and media management for our editorial team
• A limited set of fairly complex content types (multi page articles, etc.)
• CMS features like versioning, custom attributes, workflows
• Deep integration into our custom application
• Halfway complex rules based on categories (or taxonomies, as Drupal takes it)
• A few edits per day, not many per hour

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