How the Drupal Panopoly Distribution changed the way I build websites.

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Drupal Panopoly
The site builder's best friend.
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Drupal Camp Vienna 2015

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Matthias Walti
Drupal Site Builder
Occasional Copywriter
Developer
One-man Drupal shop in Switzerland
www.mazze.ch
@matthiaswalti

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Yes, it’s about site building
How the Drupal Panopoly distribution changed
the way I build websites in the last two years.
And how I learnt to think beyond websites.

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What most of my customers
were previously using
Typo 3
Wordpress
Jimdoo
Magento
Shopify
Moodle
Proprietary systems
Agency-specific systems

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Four years ago…

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But…
…there were better ways to build a
Drupal site even back then.
And I also knew about Features, Panels, Distributions…

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Panels, Features, Context…

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Drupal Distributions
Atrium
Open Public
Commerce Kickstart
Opigno
Restaurant
Open Civic
Recruiter
ERPAL
and much more….

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Distributions are great
for selling Drupal…

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difficult to customize,
a nightmare to theme.

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What I ended up with…
(Building the same functions over and over again)

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“Start building your website from
the 10th floor”

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Welcome to the
Drupal Panopoly Distribution.

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“Panels Magic for the masses”

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Responsive layouts

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Stable contrib modules

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Compatible contrib modules

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Site building elements

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Improvements for site editors
(read: your customer)

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Preconfigured roles (e.g. editor)

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Preconfigured field types

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Software update, settings update

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Common scenarios (e.g. Search)

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Responsive backend

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Apps

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But this is just the beginning…
How Panopoly really changed the way I work within one year…
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Panopoly forced me to quit my
comfort zones
(Yes, actually more than one)

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I learnt that Features is not that hard.

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I started extending Panopoly

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I have my own modules
!
!
I have my own “modules”

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Pre-defined panel panes

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Pre-defined views

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Basic design patterns

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Build things once. Build them right.

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My 10th floor…
Plenty of tested functions and layouts right after the installation

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Improved editor experience

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I have great customer quotes
«The software is amazing, simple
and logical. Seems that maintaining
our website can even be fun.»
(Actually, I did not ask this customer for any quote at all)

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«As simple as Wordpress.
As flexible as Drupal.»
(Well, to be honest: I am not quite there yet)

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I have a much clearer view
how to make the move
from service provider to platform

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Issues with Panopoly

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Panopoly is not multilingual
by default
Issues with FPP (Fieldable Panel Panes)
when using Entity Translation, requires workarounds.

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Panopoly does not come
with CKEditor
Uses TinyMCE and the WYSIWYG module.
Loading CKEditor requires to break some dependencies.

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I want my Display Suite…;-)
Can be added, but sometimes interferes
with the Panel/Pages concept (minor issue)

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Panopoly 2.0
Development for Drupal 8 has started.
Due to Drupal 8 core improvements,
several modules will be obsolete.
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Therefore we can expect a working version
to be ready… when it’s ready;-)

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Try Panopoly
https://www.getpantheon.com/
https://www.drupal.org/project/panopoly

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(Off topic)
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Plays nicely with Panopoly:
www.codyhouse.co

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Questions?