IIRS Solution Design

Please refer to the IIRS/ArchitectureOptions and principles therein.

Features overview

The IIRS will be an add-on service with its own Drupal 7 install. This install will provide the means to:

1. Allow users to log in (to their accounts on the current D6 site), or register (with the new account synced back from D7 to D6).
2. Add and moderate initiatives via a widget.
3. Sync the moderated (accepted) initiatives back to TN.org D6 via a web service.
4. Facilitate the translation of the Widget-specific UI by a distributed team of translators.
5. ...

Drupal 7 site features

Distribution, Profile, Frameworks

1. Based on ​Panopoly for an excellent editorial experience out of the box. There is a lot of momentum around Panopoly in the Drupal world.
2. Theme based on Twitter's ​Bootstrap (v2.3.2) framework for a cross-browser, responsive, clean and deeply sexy starting point. There's loads of good resources and tools on the web for Bootstrap.
3. Lots of Drupal themes integrate with Bootstrap, but ​Radix is also gaining a lot of traction with distributions and works great with Panopoly, Open Atrium, Open Outreach and others.
4. [​Debut will provide as much base features as possible, to minimise custom code and get a fast start on key features.
5. Will create a 'Transition National Hub' drupal install profile to allow this site to be built easily on the Transition Network server, and indeed on other interested parties systems.

Transition-specific custom Features & modules

@todo convert to table and list if each is able to be re-ised for D6, D7 IIRS or D7 TN.org @todo create a diagram to show what features site where, and what depends on what...

1. Transition Network Core - a feature wrapping all shared dependencies and extras needed to make the site(s) tick.
2. Transition Initiatives - a feature wrapping up a content type, some simple list-style views (user-facing and admin) and panels panes.
3. Transition Initiatives Widget - a module providing the widget (converted from the ​D6 PSE project).
4. Transition Users - a feature wrapping up a basic user account, plus some views (users-facing and admin). Need to decide if this is core D7 accounts, or needs Profile2 etc.
5. Transition * Services [where * is 'intuitive', 'user' etc.] - a feature for each core piece of data that contains relevant services including CRUD, views/lists and probably authentication.
6. Transition National Hub - anything specific to national hubs goes here. Each 'Hub' content represents a national hub and has language(s), name, country, website and other data.
7. Transition Network Sync - a module that uses pluggable services (ini, user, project etc) to sync data back to the 'hub' D6 TN.org site.
8. Transition Translate - a feature/module that helps manage the translation of site content into various languages.
9. ...

Web services

@todo see what the ​Services module does out the box.