Integrating Files Into Drupal 7 Authoring Workflow
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1) The document discusses integrating files into Drupal 7's authoring workflow using various contrib modules like Media, File Entity, and Rabbit Hole as well as some custom modules. 2) It describes how Media provides a framework for handling files while File Entity adds entities for files and File Entity Revisions allows file entities to have revisions. 3) The author demonstrates how these modules work together with Rabbit Hole and custom modules to allow fielding, revising, and inserting files into the WYSIWYG editor.
![Media
https://www.drupal.org/project/media
Provides a framework for handling files, images,
videos, etc
Using 2.0-alpha over 1.x stable because of the file
entity module
Dev branch tends to break frequently
"...New is always better[, Ted]."](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/8yifni2sssgwplx5qenn-signature-b22e00e199a3e2e25bc5bd622e7c318f25a9aa63b555755755e1483c837acf8b-poli-140909173301-phpapp02/85/Integrating-Files-Into-Drupal-7-Authoring-Workflow-11-320.jpg)
Integrating Files Into Drupal 7 Authoring Workflow
- 1. Integrating Files Into D7 Authoring Workflow Matt Mendonca
- 2. Me IT Specialist (i.e. Web Developer) at the Institute of Standards and Technology Previously a Developer at (FleishmanHillard) and High Rock Studios National VOX Global 2+ years professional experience with Drupal
- 3. You May Recall John Venable from NIST presented last month. (he is exceptionally tall)
- 4. True Story... I am taller than John. (in certain circumstances)
- 6. Contents What are we trying to do How we are doing it Questions Demo
- 7. What Are We Trying To Do In the process of moving from CommonSpot to Drupal. We need to meet or exceed CommonSpot's features. Fieldable files Revisionable files Add files from and insert files into the WYSIWYG
- 8. How are we doing it Media module and... First implementation: John let's just use a file field Actual first implementation: custom module(s) https://github.com/matt-mendonca/ck-browser Don't actually use it; you've been warned Current implementation: Media 7.x-2.0, and others, complemented by custom modules
- 9. Living Dangerously You're about to hear stuff like "dev branch" and "patch" - Media handling in Drupal is in flux. Don't do this unless you are comfortable blowing things up and fixing it.
- 10. Contrib Modules Media 7.x-2.0-alpha3 File Entiy 7.x-2.0-alpha3 File entity Revisions 7.x-1.x-dev (and patches) Rabbit Hole (files) 7.x-2.23 (and patch) WYSIWYG 7.x-2.x-dev
- 11. Media https://www.drupal.org/project/media Provides a framework for handling files, images, videos, etc Using 2.0-alpha over 1.x stable because of the file entity module Dev branch tends to break frequently "...New is always better[, Ted]."
- 12. File Entity https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity Adds an entity for files. Allows you to field files like you would nodes, users, etc Using 2.0-alpha; it is the most stable release
- 13. File Entity Revisions https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity Kind of a mess right now, however, it allows file entities to have revisions Using latest dev ( makes the actual file revisonable ) and these patches: Add a revisions tab to files: https://www.drupal.org/node/2097975 Set the default revision status for file types: https://www.drupal.org/node/2259049
- 14. Rabbit Hole https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbit_hole Allows us to redirect anonymous users directly to the file from the file entity Doesn't tie us to a layout solution (panels could do this too) Using latest stable and the following patch: Undefined index on file entity form: https://www.drupal.org/node/2315761
- 15. WYSIWYG https://www.drupal.org/project/WYSIWYG Adds a WYSIWYG Not using CK Editor module because it breaks with Media 2 We are using the CK Editor text editor Using latest dev of module since it supports recent versions of CK Editor
- 16. Custom Modules File Entity Link Display Mode Media Browser Override
- 17. File Entity Link Display Mode https://github.com/matt-mendonca/ file_entity_link_display_mode Adds a display mode for file entities that links to the file entity, not the file itself.
- 18. Media Browser Override https://github.com/matt-mendonca/ media_browser_override Overrides (as cleanly as possible) some of Media 2's media browser WYSIWYG plugin functionality. Default to WYSIWYG display format Skip view mode form in the media browser Alter media browser plugin js
- 19. How everything fits together Media provides the ground work Media browser WYSIWYG plugin (part of Media 2) allows us to add and insert media from a wyswiwyg File Entity and File Entity Revisions lets us interact with files like nodes Rabbit Hole allows us to have a link to the file that will always (within reason) be correct Custom modules fill in the gaps
- 20. Questions?
- 21. <shameless-plug> podium js </shameless-plug>
- 22. Demo