Talking Drupal #453 - Urban Institute

 Today we are talking about Urban Institute, What they do,
and How they use Drupal with guest Josh Miller. We’ll also
cover Access Unpublished as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/453
Topics

Tell us how you got started with Drupal

What does Urban Institute do

What do you do at Urban Institute

Number of people on dev team

Number of sites



How does Urban Institute use Drupal

Are you using a custom upstream

How many sites on Drupal 7

Are you doing Page builders

What kind of front end tools do you use

What is the preferred local development tool

Why did Urban Institute choose Drupal

What is the hardest part of using Drupal at a large non
profit

What is the most interesting interactive experience you
have built for Urban Institute

Resources

Urban Institute

https://www.urban.org/

https://datacatalog.urban.org

https://upward-mobility.urban.org/



Josh's new custom home

Urban Institute at DrupalCon 2023

DKAN

Drupal GovCon

Post-recording


https://www.palantir.net/blog/open-all-bringing-collaborative-editing-drupal-node

https://www.palantir.net/edittogether

https://www.drupal.org/project/yjs



Guests

Josh Miller - joshmiller
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Randy Fay - rfay
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to get feedback on unpublished
content from people who aren’t users on your Drupal site?
There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Access Unpublished



Brief history

How old: created in Feb 2011 by aberg, though recent
releases are by Christian Fritsch (chr.fritsch) of Thunder

Versions available: 8.x-1.5



Maintainership

Security coverage

Test coverage

Number of open issues: 58 open issues, 17 of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

8,638 sites



Module features and usage

Once installed, this module adds a new element to your
unpublished entity forms, for generating links with a
special hash value. When generating the link, you can
choose how long the hash value can be used for access.

Within that form section, you can copy the access URL
for any of your generated tokens, and then paste into an
email or some kind of direct message.

You will need to set a permission for users to access
content using the special access URLs, so if you want
anyone with the URL to be allowed access, you’ll need to
assign that permission to the Anonymous user role

The access lifetime can be anything from 1 day to
unlimited (never expires), and you can set the default
value in the settings form. That form also allows you to
set the URL parameter that will be used for access, gives
you options to modify the HTTP headers on the unpublished
page, and has a check box you can use to delete all expired
tokens.

Expired tokens will be deleted on cron run, and when
you delete an entity any related tokens are also removed.

This use case of allowing review of unpublished content
for people who aren’t users in the Drupal site is a request
I hear on a regular (if infrequent) basis, so I’ve
personally found this module really useful.



Necessary Patch:
https://www.drupal.org/project/access_unpublished/issues/3421309

Not to be confused with
https://www.drupal.org/project/preview_link

Preview link is missing the ability to set length of
access.