staging and developing content between sites
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Staging and Deploying content between sites
DrupalCamp Oslo, 2016
The Drupal 7 w
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My Drupal story
◦ Founded the Singapore Drupal Meetup 2010 ◦ Hosted DrupalCamp Singapore 2012 and 2013 ◦ Co-maintainer of EU Cookie Compliance ◦ Translated most of Drupal 8 Core to Norwegian ◦Working since 2015 for X-Team on sites for
major media and engineering companies
Staging and Deploying content between sites
◦ Configuring Deploy and Services ◦What Deploy supports “Out of the Box” ◦What Deploy supports with tweaks ◦What it doesn’t support ◦What it would be really, really great
if it suported
◦ Stage your content on one domain, and deploy it to the live site.
◦ deploy, deploy_ui, deploy_managed_ui
◦ 7.x-3.0-alpha1 / 8.x-1.0-alpha7 ◦ Requires:
ctools, entity, entity_dependency, uuid
Deploy
◦ Exposes a customizable REST server for CRUD operations on Drupal entities, and more
◦ uuid_services, rest_server
◦ 7.x-3.17 / 8.x-4.0-beta2 ◦ Requires:
ctools, uuid
Services
Setting up Deploy and ServicesDemo
What Deploy supports “Out of the Box”
Does it support most field types?
BackgroundField LinkBlock Reference ListBoolean LocationDate Long TextDecimal ParagraphsEmail Phone NumberFile Postal AddressFloat Term ReferenceGmap Marker TextImage Video EmbedInteger Views Reference
Does it support most entity reference fields?
Node ReferenceUser ReferenceFile ReferenceTaxonomy Term ReferenceTaxonomy Vocabulary ReferenceComment Reference
Does it support most field types?
BackgroundField LinkBlock Reference ListBoolean LocationDate Long TextDecimal ParagraphsEmail Phone NumberFile Postal AddressFloat Term ReferenceGmap Marker TextImage Video EmbedInteger Views Reference
Does it support most entity reference fields?
Node ReferenceUser ReferenceFile ReferenceTaxonomy Term ReferenceTaxonomy Vocabulary ReferenceComment Reference
What it does and doesn’t supportSometimes with a few tweaks
What it does and doesn’t support (sometimes with a few tweaks)
◦ Field Collections? ◦ Paragraphs? ◦Webform? ◦Menu Links? ◦ Revisions? ◦ Translations? ◦ Path Alias? ◦ CKEditor/IMCE? ◦ Slow server response / Timeouts?
Field Collections
◦ https://www.drupal.org/project/field_collection_deploy
◦ 2 patches from ◦ https://www.drupal.org/node/2075325
Paragraphs
◦ Sandbox module ◦ https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/
tundrainteractive/2369177
Menu Links
◦ https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_menu_links
◦ Gives you ability to deploy menu items from the Menu List Items page
◦ Extra module ◦ Automatically adds menu item on deployment ◦ https://github.com/svenbergryen/
auto_deploy_menu_item
Revisions/Translations
◦ Yes, works well! ◦ But keep in mind that all translations will be
deployed when you deploy the content.
Slow server response / Timeouts
◦ Patch ◦ https://www.drupal.org/node/2533036
◦ Adds a config field that allows you to set a timeout
What it does and doesn’t support (sometimes with a few tweaks)
◦ Field Collections? — YES, with patch ◦ Paragraphs? — YES, sandbox module ◦Webform? — NO ◦Menu Links? — YES, extra code for convenience ◦ Revisions? — YES, out of the box ◦ Translations? — YES, but deploys all at once ◦ Path Alias? — YES, with patch ◦ CKEditor/IMCE? — YES, with patch ◦ Slow server response / Timeouts? — Patch
What if it could support…?
It would be really, really great if it supported…
◦ Drupal Commerce Entities ◦ Selection of language to deploy ◦ Deploy of Entity deletions
Worth looking into
Worth looking into
◦ Deploy Add-on ◦ https://www.drupal.org/project/deploy_addon
◦ 7.x-1.0-beta5
◦ Deploy Overview Views ◦ https://www.drupal.org/project/deploy_overview_views
◦ 7.x-1.0-alpha1
