Architecting an Ambitious Student Experience in Drupal 8: Cornell Case Study

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Cornell builds a Student Opportunity Marketplace that uses Drupal 8 front end with Salesforce backend, syncing TerraDotta and class-roster XML feeds into Drupal, pushing metadata into nine Salesforce objects via the Salesforce Suite and custom mappings, and exposing public content over JSON API. Authentication uses dual SAML IdPs (NetID and Salesforce community logins) with just-in-time Drupal accounts. Custom Apex web services encapsulate business logic, session-cached payloads avoid round trips, an MVP launches in about six months, and the integrated system is live and iteratively extended.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:18Nick Tubbs
3. 2:00Overview
4. 4:22Existing System
5. 6:44Selecting Strengths
6. 15:27Authentication
7. 17:26Multiple IDP SAML
8. 17:54Module and patches
9. 19:01Discovery Service, with Style
10. 19:54Custom Data Load
11. 22:02Custom View Field - Apply Button
12. 22:53Custom Google Search
13. 29:25Custom Block with Dynamic DB Queries
14. 34:08Salesforce integration points
15. 39:01Salesforce module
16. 43:32Apex package
17. 44:41Applicant-facing Salesforce package community license
18. 46:23Salesforce Apex web services
19. 50:01SAML SSO
20. 50:37Key Takeaways
21. 56:54Dashboard - Applicants