This document provides an overview of the Display Suite module for Drupal. It introduces Kristof De Jaeger as the lead developer and maintainer of Display Suite. The summary highlights that Display Suite allows swapping template files, exposing more entity properties, and working with any entity through the Field UI. It also mentions some additional features like field templates, DS forms, and DS search.

1. Display Suite
Drupalcamp Stockholm 2013

2. About me
Kristof De Jaeger
Lead developer @ wunderkraut
Twitter: @swentel
Lead maintainer Display Suite
co-maintainer of Field group and more
Drupal core co-maintainer for Field API
Wunderkraut Belgium

3. In this session
•Most asked questions
•Demo
•Your questions

4. Disclaimer
I’m a developer
Ugly slides coming up

5. What does it do ?

6. The essence
Swap template files

7. Kill templates

8. The essence
Expose more properties

9. The essence

10. The essence
Work on any entity by default

11. The essence
Uses power of view modes

12. The essence
All done on Field UI

13. Field UI has power

14. It’s huge
It’s huge

15. Field templates
Like ‘fences’
But we do it better™

16. Field templates

17. Field templates

18. Field templates

19. DS extras
All kinds of small features:
title, region to block, field
permissions, views displays ...

20. DS Forms
Add wrappers to forms

21. DS Search
Beautiful search results

22. Demo time

23. 7.x-1.x vs 7.x-2.x

24. Do not upgrade
On existing sites
Both branches are supported

25. Template changes
•Look completely different
•Hide empty regions is gone
•Support forms by default
•drush ds-build

26. HTML 5 in 7.x-1.x
•Custom templates
•Only for layouts

27. HTML 5

28. Fieldgroup wrapper

29. UX analysis
•Problem for first time users
•Don’t know what to do
•Don’t know where to click

30. Menu DS 1

31. Layout list DS 1

33. Layout tab

34. Layout tab
•Default tab to layout
•Preview images
•AJAX
•Remove the apply button
•Add default fields

36. Change layout

38. Contextual links

39. Integrates with edit

40. Other
•Display Suite UI module
•Code format module
•Flags support
•And more

41. Panelizer
Panel view modes is gone
Use 7.x-3.x branch of
Panelizer

42. Do you hate panels ?

43. What is Panels
Layout builder

44. Integration
Page manager
Mini panels
Panelizer
etc

45. Visual editor
vs Field UI :)

46. Context
View modes are our
context

47. @frega
drupal’s godwin’s law: as
a presentation grows
longer the probability of a
(futile) discussion of
panels vs display suite
approaches 1

48. We use it !
You should too

49. How do you use it in projects ?

52. Tools
Display Suite
Semantic Views
Panels everywhere
Semantic Panels

53. Kill templates

55. Starting point
No markup at all

56. KILL ALL THE MARKUP

57. Freedom
For designers
and
frontenders

58. Developers
Security

59. How is the performance ?

60. The no 1 Q
Configuration is cached

61. Core function
134 lines

62. Typical request
600 lines

63. The actual problem
Drupal

64. Field API
http://drupal.org/node/1040790

65. Views and fields
Needs to load the entity

66. What does it mean for
you ?

67. Getting scary
50.000 installations

68. Understanding

69. Thank you
Questions

70. Credits
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/xurble/376588066/
- www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu
- James Panton of Code Enigma