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Description
This video walks through the process for spinning up a quick sandbox site to test Backdrop CMS and shows off the new Dashboard module that was incorporated into Backdrop CMS version 1.13.0.
A
Hi,
my
name
is
Tim
and
I
would
trip
low
and
I'm
here
to
do
a
quick
backdrop
demo
to
show
you
both
how
to
create
some
spin
up
a
demo
site
from
the
backdrop
site
and
how
to
you
see
the
new
dashboard,
that's
been
in
the
recent
version
of
backdrop.
So,
if
you
go
to
backdrop,
CMS
George
you'll
see
that
we
have
our
demo
button.
That's
relatively
new
on
the
front
page.
If
you
click
on
that
it
quickly
takes
you
to
another
page.
We
click
create
demo
sandbox.
A
These
are
temporary,
sandboxes
they'll
only
last
24
hours,
and
they
don't
allow
you
to
add
any
controls
at
this
time.
You'll
see
here,
it
says
this
will
persist.
For
one
day
it's
provided
through
a
service
called
tugboat,
which
you
can
get
some
more
information
about
here
anyway,
so
we
go
ahead
and
click
visit
your
site
and
boom.
We
already
have
a
backdrop
site
provision
for
us
again.
This
is
a
temporary
demo
site.
We
go
ahead
through
the
install
process,
which
goes
super
fast,
really
good
infrastructure
here
and
I'm
gonna
go
trip.
A
Low
demo
and
Tim
at
Trip
loco
feel
free
to
email.
Me
if
you
like,
throw
away
password
we're
gonna,
not
need
that
in
this
demo,
I'm
gonna
leave
the
rest
of
these
settings
as
they
are
and
hit
save
I'm
gone.
We
have
just
spun
up
a
demo
backdrop
site
and
it's
fully
functional.
You
can
go
through
and
try
all
the
features
out
and
see
how
it
compares
to
whatever
CMS
you're
using,
but
we're
going
to
focus
today
for
this
video
just
on
the
dashboard.
The
dashboard
is
a
brand
new
feature
that
went
into
version.
A
A
What
menus
are
currently
installed,
what
your
content
types
are,
and
you
know
you
can
manage
display
of
yield
some
just
some
quick
links
to
sort
of
help.
A
site
admin
manage
recite
the
magic
one
of
the
magical
things
about
the
dashboard
is
that
it
uses
the
brand-new
layout
system.
Well,
it's
not
brand
new.
What's
been
in
backdrop
since
the
beginning,
but
if
you
go
to
layouts
you'll
see
there's
a
dashboard
layout.
A
The
default
is
Sutro.
We
could
easily
switch
to
one
of
these
other
layouts,
a
single
column,
a
three
column,
whichever
one
we
choose
for
the
purposes
of
this
demo.
We're
going
to
leave
this
where
it's
at
I
don't
need
to
save
this.
We
haven't
made
any
changes.
I'm
just
gonna
go
to
manage
blocks.
You
can
see.
A
We
do
have
some
regions
here,
like
we
have
a
content
region,
that's
empty
above
the
the
current
blocks,
there's
first,
half
second
half
are
divided
into
two
columns
in
the
bottom
region
and
we
can
modify
our
layout
by
doing
things
like.
First
of
all,
we
could
add
a
custom
block.
We
scroll
down
a
bit
here,
there's
a
custom
block
option
that
comes
with
backdrop
out
of
the
box.
A
A
We
put
that
in
the
context
section
I'm
going
to
do
a
few
other
things:
I'm
gonna,
remove
the
taxonomy
block
and
the
menu
block,
because
I
don't
think
that
my
editors
really
need
them,
because
my
two
columns
are
gonna,
be
a
little
lopsided.
Now
I'm
going
to
move
the
available
updates
over
to
the
top
of
the
second
column.
A
I'm
gonna
do
one
more
thing:
I'm
going
to
put
the
the
user
thing
in
the
bottom
region.
Just
so
we
can
see
how
that
all
works.
We
go
ahead
and
hit
save
layout.
Now
we
go
back
to
the
dashboard,
and
here
we
go.
We
have
this
little
editor
dashboard
block
that
I
added.
This
is
a
custom
block.
I
can
go
whatever
text
I
want
into
that
I
have
these
out-of-the-box
blocks.
A
A
A
Admin
throw
away
password,
login
boom.
It
takes
me
right
to
the
dashboard
that
becomes
my
landing
page
automatically
and
that'll
be
true
for
anybody
that
has
permission
to
access
the
dashboard.
If
you
go
to
configuration
user
accounts,
permissions
you're
going
to
see
that
there
are
basically
two
permissions
for
for
dashboard
to
access
the
dashboard
or
to
administer
it.
I
would
often
create
an
editor
site.
Editor
role
in
that
site.
Editor
role
would
have
the
ability
to
access
the
dashboard
and
only
yes,
I'd,
add
administer
it.
A
So
if
I
click
on
that
I'm
not
going
to
do
any
custom
configuration
I
can
pull
that
I
put
that
at
the
top
of
the
first
column,
save
this
go
to
the
dashboard,
and
there
we
go
now.
We've
added
the
search
block
to
our
column
and
I
think
that
was
the
only
real
change
we
made
there.
I'm
gonna
quickly
switch
over
to
a
site
that
I
made
for
a
client
that
has
more
content,
so
we
can
see,
for
example,
the
create
content
block
is
going
to
show
all
of
the
blocks
that
we
have
configured.
A
We
can
go
configure
block
and
we
have
the
option
to
turn
on
other
content
types
so,
for
example,
the
testimonial
we
have
to
save
the
layout
for
that
change
to
have
effect.
But
now
we
go
back
to
the
excuse
me,
the
dashboard
and
the
the
new
testimonial.
Is
there
same
thing
for
a
lot
of
these?
We
can
say
we
had
things
we
want
to
show
up.
We
don't
want
testimonials
and
web
forms
to
show
up
on
that
blog,
so
we
can
adjust
that
let's
skip
over
to
already
there.
A
The
other
thing
I
wanted
to
show
you
is
on
this
dashboard.
What
I
have
done
is
created
some
some
custom
blocks
of
my
own
excuse
me,
which
are
views
blocks
I
wanted.
My
client
has
a
number
of
FAQ
questions
and
I
just
created
a
view
that
showed
all
of
their
current
nodes
for
the
FAQ
content
type
when
they
were
last
updated
and
provides
an
edit
and
delete
link.
It's
just
a
really
kind
of
simple
user
interface
to
allow
them
to
quickly
view
and
manage
their
code.
A
They
are
their
content,
they
have
so
little
content
on
the
site
that
they
can't
most
of
the
important
pages
we
can
up
out
late
in
a
couple
of
views
here.
They
have
some
nice
links
and
it
just
really
makes
their
life
easier,
so
I
think
that's
all.
We
have
to
show
you
today
for
the
for
the
dashboard
and
how
to
create
spin
up
a
quick
demo
site
on
backdrop,
org,
so
stay
tuned
and
we'll
be
providing
more
videos
shortly.