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Giveback to the Drupal Single Digital Presence: Add Honeypot filter to automatically be set up on all webforms.

Salsa Digital built the Health Translations website on Victoria's Single Digital Presence (headless Drupal) using mostly out-of-the-box features to meet a tight deadline and budget. Customisations included a new resource content type, custom search banner, search by topic page and a search by language page. The project also included automated migration and Mailchimp integration.

About the project

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Health Translations’ challenge

The Health Translations website was built on LotusNotes, which was coming to end-of-life. With support due to finish in early 2022, the Health Translations website needed to be rebuilt on Victoria’s Single Digital Presence.  The project had to be delivered in a short timeframe (4 months) and with a small budget.

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Health Translations’ transformation

Salsa Digital built the new Health Translations website on SDP using mostly out-of-the-box components combined with a few carefully crafted customisations. While a handful of pages were manually created, most of the content was migrated using automated scripts. The project also included Mailchimp integration using the Mailchimp Module.

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The outcomes

  • Project delivered under budget and a couple of weeks early
  • Quick and easy site migration (automated migration)
  • An improved look and feel
  • Lower total cost of ownership
  • Replatforming to a highly secure, whole-of-government platform based on Drupal
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Why Drupal was chosen

Drupal is the CMS of choice for the Victorian Government in Australia.  In 2018, Victoria’s Department of Premier and Cabinet and Salsa Digital built a headless Drupal instance as part of a new open source, whole-of-government platform, Single Digital Presence. Drupal was chosen as the CMS and is being used to drive consolidation and an open source community within the Victorian Government. Single Digital Presence consists of three products — Bay (an open-source platform based on Lagoon), Tide (a Drupal CMS distribution) and Ripple coupled with Nuxt (the frontend presentation layer).

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Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

Single Digital Presence was chosen as a whole-of-government solution that aims to consolidate government websites across the state of Victoria in Australia. We also used the Mailchimp Module for Mailchimp integration with Drupal, to ensure the client’s existing newsletter and processes were integrated with the new site.