Oregon State University

Glossary

  • Users can be assigned access roles to determine permission levels. There are three roles: Author, Gatekeeper, and Administrator.

  • An anchor link is a link to a tag "anchored" to a specific section of content within the page, useful to jump the user directly to a specific topic on a page. The anchor tag needs to be created first and then an anchor link can be created to link to the anchor tag. See the Creating a Link tutorial for more information.

  • Blocks are boxes of content that can be placed in certain regions on your page. See the Block organization page for more information.

  • Because Drupal gives the ability for multiple users to work on the same Web site, the situation can arise where more than one person can try to edit the same page. Thankfully, Drupal includes the checkout module to help with this. Whenever someone goes to edit the page, the checkout module will automatically checkout that page and keep anyone else from being able to make any edits. By default, a checkout will last 15 minutes; after that, the checkout will expire and others will be able to edit it again. Should you take longer than those 15 minutes to edit the page, then your changes will be saved as a draft. Please see the Draft tutorial for more information on drafts.

    Should you try to edit a page that is checked-out, you will recieve a notice saying such, along with who has it checked out, when it was checked-out and how much time is remaining before the page can be edited again.

    You can see which pages you have checked-out from your My account link.

  • A link from one page within your site to another page within your site, i.e. from /students to /alumni.

    Also known as On-site link.

  • A node is a standalone piece of content in which Drupal stores all of its content as.

    Essentially every type of content is a node, an image, a page, a block, etc.

  • A link that sends the user off of your site. i.e. a link from your site to google.com.

  • A link from one page within your site to another page within your site, i.e. from /students to /alumni.

    Also known as an Internal link

  • Each revision is a record of each version of the page and allows you to change back to any previous version of your page. Every time you edit a page, a new revision is created.

  • The administrator is the highest role of permissions. In addition to all that a gatekeeper can do, an administrator can also change site settings, create new content types and manage views and panels. Administrators also have permissions to assign access roles and permissions to other users.