Drupal is a powerful CMF able to answer to all needs you could ever meet. However, choosing the right tool among all which Drupal provides can sometimes be a pain. The goal of this session is to suggest suitable answers to the following issues : - Which tool answers to which need? - How to manage the relationship between the project's context and the best technical choice? In short, a Drupal team should think in a Drupal way: how can you help your team to keep this spirit alive?

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How to lead a Drupal team to use
standards and best practices
Kiêt Trân
Technical project manager
Drupal Camp Kiev – 4th June 2016

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Take advantage of the community
● hooks, alter, preprocess
➔ Makes you feel like a king, but the true king is
Drupal

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Method #1
● If your issue is standard, Google has the
answer.

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Method #2
● "Work as designed", wrong by design

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Method #2
● "Work as designed", wrong by design
● Specifications "Reviewed by the team".

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Method #2
● "Work as designed", wrong by design
● Specifications "Reviewed by the team".
● Need + functional + technical = feature

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Method #2
● "Work as designed", wrong by design
● Specifications "Reviewed by the team".
● Need + functional + technical = feature

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Choose your weapon!

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Choose your weapon!

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Know your weapons
Need D7 D8
Pages layout Panels Panels (+ Layout plugin)
Content layout Display Suite Display Suite (+ Layout plugin)
Data selection Views Views (in D8 core)
Import Feeds Feeds (in progress)
Export Views data export Views data export (in progress)
Content migration Migrate Migrate (in D8 core)
Multilingual Internationalization In the core
Workflow Rules Rules
Consume web services Web service client Guzzle library
Build web services Services REST (in D8 core)
File management Media / Scald ? Media entity

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Layouts
● In D7
● Pages: Panels
● Content: Display suite
● In D8
● Layout plugin as standard architecture
● Both Panels and Display suite use Layout plugin
● Layout plugin currently being ported into the
core

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Selection, import, export
● Data selection
● Views => included into D8 core
● Import
● Feeds => D8 version in progress (include in core?)
● Aggregator ? (comes with parser + fetcher in D8)
● Export
● Views data export => D8 version in progress
● Data migration (environments, recast)
● Migration => included into D8 core

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Multilingual
● In D7
● Internationalization (i18n) = the essential
● In D8
● Internationalization
● Administration Language
● Localization update (l10n_update)
➔ All included into the core

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Workflow
● One module to rule them all
● Rules: Trigger, (condition), action
● Actively ported to D8

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Web services
● Consume
● D7: Web service client (wsclient)
– Integration with Rules
– User­friendly interface
● D8: Guzzle library
– Custom code ?…
● Build
● D7: Services
● D8: REST in core (+ Services?)

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File management
● In D7
● Media vs. Scald
● Simple and popular media (file entity)
● Flexible Scald (Scald atom)
● In D8
● Entry point: Media entity
● Media + Scald

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Get a look to these
● Commerce
● Search API
● SEO

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Many thanks
● Andrey Postnikov
● Anton Ivanov
● Nicolas Guerrier
● Jean-Baptiste Guerraz

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Thank you.