a future-focused digital platform with drupal 8

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Mai Irie – Software Architect, Phase2John Kennedy – Product Manager, Acquia

Using Lightning To Build A Future-Focused Drupal 8 Media Platform


John Kennedy – Product Manager, Acquia Lightning

– @commercejohn


Mai Irie– Software Architect, Phase2

– Mirie– IRC, drupal.org


Overview– What is Acquia Lightning?

– Goals for Al Jazeera’s Unified CMS

– Platform functionality highlights

– Lightning Roadmap


What Is Lightning?

The Drupal 8 Distribution for Enterprise Authoring


The Mission

Enable developers to build great enterprise authoring experiencesfor their editorial teams with D8


PersonaSite Builder

PersonaContent Author

PersonaSite Designer

PersonaDeveloper


What is Lightning?

Integrations TestingSecurity

Layout Workflow Preview Media


Current Challenges of Al Jazeera’s

– Multiple CMS platforms– Overstretched support, operations and maintenance – Fragmented technology investments– Multi-skilled resource hunt – Difficult editor-exchange arrangements– Multilingual


Solution: A Unified CMS

Requirements:– A flexible platform– Control over all content streams – An architecture that accommodates structured content– An interface for multiple content editors


Why Did We Chose Lightning?

Requirements– Provided a great baseline for the platform:– Page Layout– Content Workflow– Media Management

– Reliable and transparent roadmap:– drupal.org/node/2670686

https://www.drupal.org/node/2670686



How To Build With LightningThere Are Three Ways:1. Install Lightning and just build from there.

2. Use an extend.yml file – Example implementation = Acme Lightning

– github.com/balsama/acme-lightning-extend

3. Use the patch for extending the profile:– drupal.org/node/1356276

https://github.com/balsama/acme-lightning-extend

https://github.com/balsama/acme-lightning-extend




Platform Functionality Highlights


MODULES ENABLED IN LIGHTNING FOR MEDIA


ModulesContinued


MediaMedia Entity– Does not directly extend Drupal File Entity

– Non file-centric storage - does not assume that the media asset is a file or even just a single asset

– Creates a new entity type: Media– drupal.org/project/media_entity

https://www.drupal.org/project/media_entity

https://www.drupal.org/project/media_entity


EXAMPLE: Tweet Media bundle


ENTITYEMBED&

ENTITYBROWSER

ENTITYBROWSER


Entity Browser

– Allows you to browse, create and select entities on the system (not Media Entity-specific)

– Can be used in different contexts (for a field or with an Entity Embed button)

– Uses CTools form wizard for a multi-step workflow of selecting the image(s)

– drupal.org/project/entity_browser

https://drupal.org/project/entity_browser

https://drupal.org/project/entity_browser


Lightning: Entity Browser Example


Entity Embed– Allows any entity to be embedded within a text area using a

WYSIWYG editor.

– Enable the entity-embed filter: Display embedded entities for the desired text formats

– If the Limit allowed HTML tags filter is enabled, add <drupal-entity data-*> to the Allowed HTML tags.

– To enable the WYSIWYG plugin, move the entity-embed E button into the Active toolbar for the desired text formats.

– Dependency on Embed module: drupal.org/project/embed

https://drupal.org/project/embed


Example: Entity Embed Button


Lightning: Entity Embed Example


Media bundle resolvers are plugins which determine which media bundle(s) are appropriate for handling an input value.

The input value can be of any type, and the resolver needs to figure out which media bundle -- singular! -- is best suited to handle that input.

BundleResolverInterface: lightning_media/src/BundleResolverInterface.php

BundleResolverBase: lightning_media/src/BundleResolverBase.php

BundleResolver

https://github.com/acquia/lightning/blob/8.x-1.x/modules/lightning_features/lightning_media/src/BundleResolverInterface.php

https://github.com/acquia/lightning/blob/8.x-1.x/modules/lightning_features/lightning_media/src/BundleResolverBase.php


Media RoadmapLightning is serving as the driving force behind improvements in Core

– A plan for media management in Drupal 8buytaert.net/a-plan-for-media-management-in-drupal-8

– Support remote media assets as first-class citizensdrupal.org/node/2801277

– [prototype] Create design for a Media Librarydrupal.org/node/2796001

– Support WYSIWYG embedding of entities other than filesdrupal.org/node/2801307

http://buytaert.net/a-plan-for-media-management-in-drupal-8

http://buytaert.net/a-plan-for-media-management-in-drupal-8

https://drupal.org/node/2801277







Editorial Workflow


MODULES ENABLED IN LIGHTNING FOR WORKFLOW


Workflow Initiative- Workflow Initiative: drupal.org/node/2721129

- Core conversation from DrupalCon Dublin:youtube.com/watch?v=m5y9vKQL6Q8

- Content moderation module (Experimental Core Module):drupal.org/documentation/modules/content_moderation

- Improving Drupal's content workflow:buytaert.net/improving-drupal-content-workflow




https://events.drupal.org/dublin2016/sessions/workflow-initiative

https://events.drupal.org/dublin2016/sessions/workflow-initiative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5y9vKQL6Q8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5y9vKQL6Q8

https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/content_moderation




http://buytaert.net/improving-drupal-content-workflow





Content Moderation Flow

DRAFT NEEDS REVIEW PUBLISHED

ARCHIVED

RECALLED


AJMN Workflow Module: Moderation History Tab


– Lightning comes with a ton of Behat tests!

– We also wrote some Behat tests for the platform. We targeted:

a. Workflow: new moderation state and transitionsb. User Permissions


Lightning Roadmap 2017

Innovating in editorial experience:

– Workspace Preview System

– Themes:

– Product site

– Blog

– Corporate

– Scenarios

– Publishing

– Education

– Commerce


Links

– Developer Site: http://lightning.acquia.com

– Github: https://github.com/acquia/lightning

– Video: http://bit.ly/lightning-video

http://lightning.acquia.com


Questions?

Thank You!

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