An Introduction to Form Builder - A New Interface for Fields

quicksketch — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:18:41 +0000

Nathan Haug

Through the history of Drupal, there have been several different modules that allow the building of forms: Profile, Flexinode, Survey, Webform, CCK, and D7's Field. All of these set out with specific purposes in mind, whether collecting surveys or creating node content. The task of actually building the form was secondary to the task of using the form. This is where the Form Builder project comes in. Form Builder provides a single, universal interface for creating form structures.

Intended Audience:

This talk is intended for primarily for developers interested in developing using Form Builder. Users interested in user interface design and experience may also be interested.

Questions answered by this session:

What is Form Builder?

How is it useful right now?

How can it be used for in the future?

How do I prepare for Form Builder?

How can I implement my own functionality using Form Builder?

Schedule info

Time slot:

25 August 13:30 - 14:30

Room:

Fairfield Room

Slides:

form-builder.pdf

The Rules Way of Life

fago — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:34:44 +0000

Wolfgang Ziegler

Klaus Purer

Rules 2 for Drupal 7 is a powerful module that can ease your life as site builder drastically. This session will show best practices, tips & tricks and present how Rules can work together with other modules to gain even more power!

In particular, we’ll show what the holy four – rules, views, message & flag – can achieve together!

Have you ever heard the sentence “there is a module for that”? Replace it with “there is a rule for that” ;-) The flexibility of Rules with its intelligent data selector widget enables you to access any entity and property in a very fast way (no more PHP eval() like in Rules 1.x). We will show you all the awesome concepts in Rules:

Direct input including tokens and the Data Selector
Use Rules components and start re-using configurations
Make use of loops & lists
Learn about recent developments (also including the Google Summer of Code project)

Furthermore we show how popular use-cases can be implemented with Rules and build them into regular Drupal modules using Features. Stop coding custom modules, start using the power of Rules & Drupal’s ecosystem!

We'll show how one or more of those examples could be built:

Editorial workflows
Scheduled publishing
Notifications

In addition, we’ll show how developers can make use of the Rules API and create handy functionality just by writing some basic glue code.

Intended Audience:

Site builders, who are familiar with Drupal tools like Fields & Views

Questions answered by this session:

How can I leverage the full power of Rules?

What modules play well with Rules?

How can I replace whole modules with the holy four?

What’s going on in the ecosystem around Rules?

I don’t want to write code, what can I do with Drupal?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 17:00 - 18:00

Room:

Arnhem Gallery

Slides:

praes.pdf

DrupalCon London 2011 - Fields

An Introduction to Form Builder - A New Interface for Fields

The Rules Way of Life