DRUPAL

Q. What is Drupal?
ANS: Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System CMSCMS that
allows organizing, managing and publishing your content.

Q. Why to use Drupal?

Ans: Drupal is very powerful and can be used for building large, complex sites. It is
PHP based template and allows non-technical users to add and edit the content
without any HTML or Web design knowledge. Using Drupal CMS, it can be easy to
interact with other sites or technologies and can handle complex forms and
workflows. It is available with more than 16000 modules which can be addressed
with Drupal core and add-on modules.

Q. List some features of Drupal?

Ans: The Features of Drupal are:
 It makes easy to create and manage your site.
 Translates anything in the system with built-in user interfaces.
 It connects your website to other sites and services using feeds, search engine
connection capabilities etc.
 Drupal is open source software hence requires no licensing costs.
 It designs highly flexible, creative website to the users and display more
effectively to increase the visitors.
 Drupal can publish your content on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and
other social mediums.

Q. What are disadvantages of Drupal?

Ans: The disadvantages of Drupal are:
 Drupal is not user friendly interface. It requires advanced knowledge and few
basic things about the platform to install and modify.
 Drupal is new content management system. It is not compatible with other
software.
 Performance is low compared to other CMS's. The website which is built using
Drupal will generate big server loads and never opens with a slow internet
connection.
Q. What is Drupal main menu?
Ans: Menus are very important to navigate your website easily. Menus offer a set of
links as a result; you can navigate your website. The Drupal menu allows you to add,
remove and rename the menus and menu items.

Q. What is the use of Show as expanded field while creating menu?

Ans: If it is consist of sub-menus. Then it will be displayed under parent menu item.

Q. What is the use of weight field while creating menu?

Ans: It sets the order of menu items.

Q. What is Drupal blocks?

Ans: Blocks are container objects that are used to organize your content of your
website.

Q. What is the use of the field set the width of each sidebar in the layout and general
settings?
Ans: It is used to set width of first sidebar and second sidebar and unit in % or px or
em.

Q. What is the use of Media query for this layout field in the layout and general
settings?
Ans: Media query defines different style rules for different media devices and by
default for this layout will be 1025px.

Q. What is the maximum and minimum width for media query for Landscape tablet
in tablet layout?
Ans: Media query for Landscape tablet will be min-width: 769px and max-width:
1024px.

Q. What does sticky at top of lists does in publishing options while creating the front
page?
Ans: It fixes your page at top of lists on your site.

Q. What is the use of URL path settings option while creating basic page?
Ans: Here you can specify alternative URL by which content can be accessed. Don't
add slash at the end or beginning of the URL alias or else it will not work.
Q. What is the use of publishing options while creating blogs?
Ans: It allows you to publish your blog content on Front Page or you can stick at top
of lists as per the demand.

Q. What is the use of Menu settings option while creating articles?

Ans: By clicking on Provide a menu link checkbox it shows all the related details of
Menu such as Menu link title, Description, Parent item, and Weight.

Q. What is the use of Revision information option while creating articles?

Ans: Provide revised information if any changes are made in the article.

Q. What is the use of Comment settings option while creating articles?

Ans: By selecting open or close, it allows others to write comment for the article.

Q. What is the use of Authoring information option while creating articles?

Ans: Specifies the authored name and the date when article has been authored.

Q. What is Drupal content type?

Ans: Drupal content type defines the style in which contents are collected and
displayed.

Q. Mention the status of the content present while filtering the pages?
Ans: The statuses of the content present while filtering the pages are:
 Published
 Promoted
 not promoted
 sticky
 not sticky

Q. What is the use of Menu Management in Drupal?

Ans: Menu Management is the important part to navigate through your Drupal
admin page.

Q. What is the use of Dashboard menu?

Ans: It displays the list of articles or pages which are created. It is a first screen that
will get displayed when you log into administration area.
Q. What is the use of Content menu?
Ans: In this menu you can create, manage and find new pages. Here, the table gets
displayed with the detail of the article i.e. status, title, updated, author and
operation Editanddelete.

Q. What is the use of Structure Menu?

Ans: Structure includes the blocks, manage content types, add new menu links to the
site and manage administrative tagging of content.

Q. What is the use of Appearance menu?

Ans: In this menu, the lists of themes are displayed. User can install the theme,
update the existing theme or switch the themes.

Q. What is the use of People Menu?

Ans: In people menu, you can create a new user account or mange the existing user.

Q. What is the use of Configuration menu?

Ans: This is an important part in the Drupal Back-End. Any changes done in this
configuration, will affect the entire website. Here you can do the user account
setting, site information setting or any other general site setting.

Q. What is taxonomy?
Ans: Taxonomy can be thought of classifying website content which display specific
content based on taxonomy terms.

Q. Mention the terms that Drupal taxonomy is created?

Ans: Drupal taxonomy is made up of several terms such as:
 Term: It is used to manage or describe the content.
 Vocabulary: It is set of terms.

Q. What is user management?

Ans: User Management manages the information of the user, which allows creating
or deleting the user, changing passwords, time and roles.

Q. What is Anonymous user?

Ans: It allows user to access your website without asking them for the username or
password.
Q. What is authenticated user?
Ans: It allows only those users to access your website, who are authenticated to use
it.

Q. Mention the steps to optimize the Drupal website?

Ans: The steps to optimize the Drupal site are:
 Enable Page Caching
 Compress CSS files
 Js Aggregation
 Moving Media Files and Static files to a CDN
 Optimize Images Size and Their Number
 Theme Optimization

Q. What is Drupal error handling?

Ans: Error Handling is a process of detection and finding the resolutions for the
errors, this can be programming application errors or communicable errors.

Q. What is the use of twitter suffix option in advanced tab in druapl social
networking?
Ans: Twitter Suffix will optionally append a Twitter handle, or text, so that you get
pinged when someone shares an article.

Q. What is Drupal Pane module?

Ans: Pane module is used to translate the custom panel's pane with optional title
that will be stored as variables and it can be translate or edit quickly.

Q. What is aggregator module?

Ans: Aggregator Module takes the content from other websites but does not
generate any feeds. It is also known as a feed reader. It gathers, displays texts and
images and other sites and blogs.

Q. What is the use of Length of trimmed description field in Feed aggregator?

Ans: Select the length of your descriptions.

Q. What is the use of auto-reply field in contact module?

Ans: Sends the automatic reply message to the user.

Q. What is the use of Product SKU while setting shopping cart?

Ans: Unique identifier for the product is given here.
Q. What is the use of Rate field while setting up taxes?
Ans: It is a percentage used to calculate the tax which is expressed as a decimal.

Q. What is the use of Tax amount rounding mode field while setting discounts?
Ans: Specify what type of rounding should occur when tax rates of tax type are
calculated for the unit price of a line item.

Q. What is the use of Add to Cart Form Settings field in receive donation?
Ans: It includes the product line item types in add to cart form to collect information.

Q. What is the use of server field in setup payments?

Ans: We should select the server from either of the one i.e. Production or Sandbox.

Q. What is Drupal invoice generation?

Ans: Invoice is a document with a statement of amount and cost, unique invoice
number and tax information.

Q. What is Drupal order history?

Ans: Order history is dependent on the ordered products made by the user through
the use of checkout. It includes history of the product which includes order number,
user name, order status etc.

Q. What is the use of order status field in product order history?

Ans: It defines the order status such as processing or pending or completed or
cancelled.

Q. Which PHP compatibility is used for Drupal?

Ans: PHP 5.2+

Q. What are the advantages of Drupal?

Ans: The advantages of Drupal are:
 Drupal is a flexible CMS that allows handling content types including video,
text, blog, menu handling, real-time statistics etc.
 It provides a number of templates for developing web applications. So there is
no need to start from scratch if you are building simple or complicated web
applications.
 Drupal is easy to manage or create blog or website. It helps to organize,
structure, find and reuse content.
  Drupal provides some interesting themes and templates which gives your
website an attractive look.
 Drupal has over 7000 plug-ins to boost your website. Since Drupal is an open
source, you can create your own plug-ins.

Q. What is Multilingual content?

Ans: Multilingual means your content can be written and will be displayed in
different languages.