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BY: Ian Chan (ianchan)
DATE: 2009-08-17 22:21
SUBJECT: RE: Drupal Integration Hi Kim, here are some ideas (finally) about integrating the two applications.
Sync Drupal/LAC authentication
Typically, our librarians are already logged-in to our Drupal-based intranet. If their authenticated status could be passed on to LAC that would ease account/password management and save them from having to login to LAC.
Sync module and guide information
This might be as simple as XML feeds of guides by status and subject/tag. Our course and subject guide index pages are in Drupal. Right now, our librarians must create a listing in Drupal for each guide in order to publish theirs guides to the index. With an XML feed, we could simply embed the feeds. Ideally the feeds in LAC would accept variables in the URL so we could use one subject/course guides page in Drupal and dynamically select the content from LAC. Alternatively, we could use the FeedAPI module in Drupal to import each guide as it's own entry in Drupal. The full content would not be imported - only fields such as title, author, updated, URL, etc.
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