Managing dates and times is often complex: recurring events, timezones, daylight savings times, regional formatting conventions, and more. Add in additional presentation requirements like add-to-calendar links, registration links, and related content (like agendas, that change for each date instance) and the complexity can seem bewildering. Fortunately Drupal offers a rich toolset for solving these challenges. In this session we'll explore the solutions, not only showing how they work, but also detailing the modules and the configuration needed.
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With a renewed focus on site builders, Drupal has an opportunity to enable these critical users to quickly build out even complex functionality: an events calendar, a locations map, and more. By leveraging the power of configuration management built into modern versions of Drupal, configuration kits empower site builders, and provide a "known good" baseline that can help maintainers when troubleshooting.
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Solutions like Acquia Site Factory and Pantheon Upstreams can be effective (but platform-specific) tools for managing multiple sites with similar requirements. The session will discuss a less scalable, but more portable approach using forked repos in Gitlab, that allow for development and site building from a central, template repo, while adding site-specific changes to individual sites that extend off the template.
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One of the key strengths of Drupal is its flourishing ecosystem for contributed modules. Best of all, you can jump in and add yoour own module! All you really need is a good idea, though of course some programming knowledge, understanding of Drupal coding standards, and a few other technical things would help. This talk will focus less on how to write code or what code you should write, and more on the process of creating a module, submitting it on Drupal.org, and getting it adopted by the community.
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Recorded and edited a video that was used in the Driesnote, to demonstrate the current capabilities of the Project Browser module. The video starts at 28:20 of the Driesnote.
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For many sites, internal search is critical functionality and heavily relied upon by visitors. But often, there's little consensus about how and when to test the quality of results, or the best ways to optimize the results on an ongoing results. I have specific example to share that relate to Drupal and Solr, but intend to discuss principles that should apply more broadly to a variety of technologies.
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We often talk about UX as a focus on making a site intuitive and easy-to-use for anonymous visitors, or perhaps registered users who need manage their account, make a purchase, and so on. But what about the people who will use your site most? While an engaged visitor might return to your site 3-5 times a month, a site admin use the site that many times a week, or more!
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Managing dates and times can be complex: with timezones, daylight savings time, leap years, and even regional formatting differences, there's a lot to manage. On top of all that, the editors on your site are familiar with feature-rich calendar software from the likes of Google, Apple, and Microsoft, and will expect your site to follow their conventions.
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Drupal has a mature and robust integration with Apache Solr for enterprise-quality site search. That said, some competing search solutions give editors the ability to manually curate results for popular searches.
The Search Overrides modules allows you to offer this functionality with Drupal. Anyone with the necessary permissions can promote or exclude content for specific searches, and drag-and-drop multiple results to provide the exact set of results that will best meet the needs of your visitors.
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Drupal has a mature and robust integration with Apache Solr for enterprise-quality site search. That said, some competing search solutions give editors the ability to manually curate results for popular searches.
The Search Overrides modules allows you to offer this functionality with Drupal. Anyone with the necessary permissions can promote or exclude content for specific searches, and drag-and-drop multiple results to provide the exact set of results that will best meet the needs of your visitors.
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Managing dates and times can be complex: with timezones, daylight savings time, leap years, and even regional formatting differences, there's a lot to manage. On top of all that, the editors on your site are familiar with feature-rich calendar software from the likes of Google, Apple, and Microsoft, and will expect your site to follow their conventions.
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Drupal has long been known for having a steeper learning curve than other CMS options. What are the things that we, as site builders and developers, can do to make life easier for the editors who spend their time keeping Drupal sites up to date? I'll share some ideas I like to use, but it would be ideal if this could be more of a BOF-style open discussion. Also feel free to share any points you've experienced as a Drupal editor.
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For many sites, internal search is critical functionality and heavily relied upon by visitors. But often, there's little consensus about how and when to test the quality of results, or the best ways to optimize the results on an ongoing results. I'll share my own thoughts on the subject but would love for this to be more of a BOF-style open discussion.
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One of the key strengths of Drupal is its flourishing ecosystem for contributed modules. Best of all, you can jump in and add yoour own module! All you really need is a good idea, though of course some programming knowledge, understanding of Drupal coding standards, and a few other technical things would help.
This talk will focus less on how to write code or what code you should write, and more on the process of creating a module, submitting it on Drupal.org, and getting it adopted by the community. We'll touch on such topics as:
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A live demonstration of Smart Date, and discussion about how Smart Date can help meet a variety of common requirements.
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A new spin on a talk I've given a few times this year, focusing specifically on recurring dates. This will also be my first time mentioning a couple of newer modules on the Drupal datetime ecosystem.
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First time doing a live install of Smart Date Calendar Kit in the session. It was a little nerve wracking, but fun!
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An exciting improvement in Drupal 8 is having a date field in core. That said, custom code is often needed to provide commonly-requested functionality. The Smart Date module allows you to upgrade your date fields, quickly and easily!