English Drupal instructions

Here you’ll find instructions for working with the content management system (CMS) Drupal, which is the university’s shared tool for the external website. Drupal is an open source system which has been adapted to match the university’s preferences and needs. The university uses Drupal 8.

On these pages you’ll find instructions, information about permissions and details of the concept behind the new website, which is to be launched in June 2020.

Guidelines, policies and information about accessibility and legal requirements can be found on the CMS pages of the staff portal .

General information about plain language, style guides and translation can be found on the communication pages of the staff portal.

Most of the instructions are in English, however a lot of the information is in Swedish. This will be notified at each link that goes to a Swedish information page.

Login to Drupal

https://gu.se/login

Drupal’s training environment

Practice Drupal site

You can practice creating pages in Drupal.

https://webutb.it.gu.se/login

Permissions

A new editorial organisation is established for the University of Gothenburg’s external website. The permissions in Drupal reflect the editorial roles of content editor and web editor.

For those who would like to read more about Permissions in Drupal.

Support

As a web editor, you can contact central support for both technical and editorial assistance. Content editors can contact their web editor for support.

Contact support by filling in the form on the support page.

Video Tutorial - Introduction to Drupal

You can watch an introduction to Drupal in English at GU Play.

Concept and design

The concept for the external website affects, for example, how we work with searches and how we structure the content of our website.