Widget Engine
Vitalii Zinenko vzinenko@adyax.com
Widget Engine
Capabilities
Widgets system is a new solution for webpage content management. Imagine widgets as a block of page content:
paragraph
slider
hero image/banner
article/news
slider with Quote with floated image left or right
etc...
Widget Engine
Simplest / Fastest way to organize content (5 minute task)
Body with Wysiwyg
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="featured-client">Redmond</div>
<div class="map-one"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/redmond.jpeg"></div>
<div class="get-left-info"><p>14939 NE 95th Street-Redmond, <span>WA 98052</span></p><p>(425) 497 - 9688</p></div>
<div class="message-image">message</div>
<div class="get-mail"><a href="mailto:inquiries@synectmedia.com">inquiries@synectmedia.com</a></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-offset-2 col-md-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="featured-client">Orlando</div>
<div class="map-one"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/orlando.jpeg"></div>
<div class="get-right-info"><p>5802 Hoffner Avenue Suite 707 Orlando, <p>(407) 601 - 1656</p></div>
<div class="message-image">message</div>
<div class="get-mail"><a href="mailto:inquiries@synectmedia.com">inquiries@synectmedia.com</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Widget Engine
Simplest / Fastest way to organize content (5 minute task)
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="featured-client">Redmond</div>
<div class="map-one"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/redmond.jpeg"></div>
<div class="get-left-info"><p>14939 NE 95th Street-Redmond, <span>WA 98052</span></p><p>(425) 497 - 9688</p></div>
<div class="message-image">message</div>
<div class="get-mail"><a href="mailto:inquiries@synectmedia.com">inquiries@synectmedia.com</a></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-offset-2 col-md-5 col-sm-12">
<div class="featured-client">Orlando</div>
<div class="map-one"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/orlando.jpeg"></div>
<div class="get-right-info"><p>5802 Hoffner Avenue Suite 707 Orlando, <p>(407) 601 - 1656</p></div>
<div class="message-image">message</div>
<div class="get-mail"><a href="mailto:inquiries@synectmedia.com">inquiries@synectmedia.com</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>Widget Engine
Creating Fields (nodes/blocks/entities) and Template files
- super flexible
- hard to update existing entities
- hard to understand for content managers as they cant read code
I want to re-order 2 fields
No problem, sir. 4h to implement
Widget Engine
Fields + Display Suite
- super flexible
- creating complicated templates
but....
- need deep knowledges of Drupal UI
- still need to create a code
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Panels
- flexible templates
- not user-friendly UI for content managers
- a lot of settings
let's try to learn someone to manage Panels who have never worked with Drupal
Widget Engine
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Widgets!
When to use
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For one column template page
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For pages with unfixed structure
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For flexible landing pages
Widget Engine
Just Split templates before start working
- text with image
- pull quoute with image
- slider
- video with text and image
- two/three column text
- list of floated images and text
- list of logos
- list of Taxonomy terms
- etc etc etc
Widget Engine
"Hey, lets use Paragraphs"
I want to use existing blocks on furtherpages and have more usefull features
Widget Engine
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Allows for the creation of pages with widgets (pre-existing block templates)
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Allows to reuse existing widgets
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Live-preview of widgets in Back Office
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User friendly Widget Selector
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Bundling of widgets and full Drupal Entity API support
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Customizable UI for editorial pages with IEF support
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Exportable configuration for widget bundles and UI settings
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Domain access support (in progress)
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Reuse of existing widgets and templates from previous projects
Features
Widget Engine
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Node Type Custom Page. An example module that provides new Node content type with minimal setup of the widget field.
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Widget engine entity form. This module provides integration with Entity Browser module and allows users to choose a new selector plugin (2 tabs support).
List of available modules in the package
Widget Engine
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Inline Entity Form
https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form -
Html2canvas JS-library
https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas -
Entity Browser IEF
https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_browser (optional). That module is needed if you want to use modal (popup) editing process
Requirements
Widget Engine
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upload module and dependent modules
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install from Drush or Admin UI
Installation
or via composer
"repositories": [
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"version": "0.5.0-alpha1",
"name": "html2canvas",
"type": "drupal-library",
"source": {
"url": "https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas.git",
"type": "git",
"reference": "0.5.0-alpha1"
}
}
}
],
"require": {
"drupal/widget_engine": "1.x-dev",
},Widget Engine
Create Widget types
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Assign Widgets to Content types
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Manage Form Display
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Now you can create your content.
Widget Engine
Maybe you want to use Widget inside Widget?
EASY....
Widget Engine
Lets make some code
enable debug mode in services.yaml
parameters:
twig.config: { debug: true, auto_reload: true, cache: false }
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Lets make our UI more sexy...
use Field Group module
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and now we have very simple and flexy feature to manage content
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Plans for feature
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Domain Access support
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maybe some of your requirements?
Widget Engine
Credits
Product owner: Laurent Hautefeuille (Adyax)
Team Lead: Alex Goja (Adyax)
Developers: Max Kuzmych (Adyax), Oleksandr Antonchyk (Adyax)
usefull links
https://www.drupal.org/project/widget_engine
Vitalii Zinenko vzinenko@adyax.com