Open Atrium

Features

Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations. It comes with six features - a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all.

Introduction for Site Users

This walk through demonstrates how to use the group features in Open Atrium.

Open Atrium: Bringing Your Team Together from Phase2 Technology on Vimeo.

But you're not limited to just those features. Open Atrium is completely customizable. If you want a feature that's not on that list, you can add it yourself. Read the documentation on community.openatrium.com, specifically the Build a Feature section, to find out how to do it.

Introduction for Site Administrators

This walk through for new site administrators demonstrates how to create groups, add users, and customize the main dashboard on your new Open Atrium site.

Open Atrium: Introduction for Site Administrators from Phase2 Technology on Vimeo.

How features work
  1. Drupal core provides a stable API foundation.
  2. Open Atrium is a distribution, packaging contributed modules and custom settings for a strong out-of-the-box user experience.
  3. The Kit specification defines interface points for features which can be plugged into any kit-compliant distribution.
  4. Open Atrium's default features are Kit-compliant and other features can be added to extend Open Atrium's functionality.