Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Hour 22. Managing the Site

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Using Actions and Triggers

• Understanding Tokens

• Using Rules

• Automating Your Site’s Maintenance and Support

Introduction

With Drupal, much of the work of building, maintaining, and managing a website can be taken off your shoulders. You have seen how to use the social and communication aspects of Drupal to let users contribute to the site in various ways. This chapter shows how you can set up the site to perform many maintenance tasks—not just reminding you (or others) when things have to be done, but, in many cases, actually doing them.

There are two sets of automation tools you can use with Drupal:

• Actions and Triggers— These modules are built in to ...