Using Drupal For Company Intranet; What To Expect? 20
jjbliss writes "I am in the beginning stages of setting-up our company intranet. I have done some research and think that Drupal is the right CMS to use for this as it is very rich-featured, free and open-source yet well-supported, has a broad user and development community, and seems to be customizable to the degree that I need it to be. My question for Slashdot is who out there is using Drupal for this purpose? What have been your biggest issues in getting up and running? What should I know going into it? I am fairly proficient with HTML, CSS, Javascript, LAMP, etc. What sort of learning curve will there be in developing within Drupal? Are there any experts out there that we could bring in when I hit a problem that is over my head to fix? Where do you recommend finding them?"
Not many responses here (Score:2)
I suspect if you had asked "I am looking into a CMS" etc you would have had loads of answers and once you had sifted through all the usual /. bollocks you might have got some useful stuff out of it.
The fatal error was mentioning your own opinion!
The only advice I can suggest is to try it out and see what happens. In any design/eval exercise you should do your research, pick three and give them some time.
I suggest looking at Joomla as well and spending some time at say http://freshmeat.net./ [freshmeat.net.] For a laugh, t
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Best thing is probably to decide a shortlist of CMS packages that fit what you want to do and install them on a spare server. Try each one out for a few hours, read some more reviews and guides as you go, and by the end of a week you'll know which one you want to use.
I'd use Drupal any day over Joomla! though. Apart from the annoying exclamation mark in their name, I just couldn't do what I wanted with Joomla! Drupal seems more friendly (and lacks any arrogant and annoying exclamation marks in the name), bu
Company Intranet (Score:1)
If you are a normal corporatation (using Office) I would recommend SharePoint instead.
OpenAtrium (Score:1)
There is a Drupal distribution built specifically for that purpose: http://openatrium.com/ [openatrium.com] There's a lengthy article about it in the December issue of Linux magazine: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/nov/09/open-atrium-featured-linux-magazine [developmentseed.org] which should help you get started.
It features groups, calenders, blogs, documentation and an issue/task tracker right out of the box.
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Drupal.Org has lots of information (Score:1)
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Expect it to work (Score:2)
We use it for our intranet and everyone seems to like it. As far as developing for it: what exactly are you wanting to do? There are a bazillion pre-made modules [drupal.org] for just about every task you can imagine, and you're probably better of finding something close to what you need and making minor adjustments as necessary.
Honestly, I can't think of anything bad about it. If nothing else, why not install it on your own machine and play with it until you get everything working the way you like it, then move your
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Integration with LDAP
A support ticketing system
Wiki-like content pages (with wysiwyg editing)
Document Management
Video Blog
News Feed for important announcements
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Why open source? (Score:1)
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Not hard (Score:1)
Wrong question (Score:2)
A few points (Score:2)
At my current and previous job, we used Drupal for public-facing websites. Although you're asking more about internal sites, and my experience is as a sysadmin (not a developer), I thought I'd chip in with my two cents.
First off, as someone above mentioned, there are modules for everything. That's great -- but when you upgrade, that means you're (potentially) upgrading every module as you go. This has caused us a few problems when, say, you need the very latest 2.x-dev version of something to go with the