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Drupal 8Creating a Blog in Drupal 8 & Configuration API

January 24, 2014SANDCamp 2014

Friday, January 24, 14

Bob KepfordSr. Drupal Developer

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What’s New

• Fields

• HTML 5

• Better Content Editing

• Display & Form Modes

• Mobile

• Views

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• Accessibility

• Better Multi-language support

• CMI

• Web Services


Fields

Comments are now fieldsNew field types

• Entity Reference

• Link

• Email

• Telephone

• Placeholders

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HTML 5@Mediacurrent

New elements

• Picture element: Support for responsive image displays

• Date element

• E-mail element

• Phone element


Content Editing@Mediacurrent

• CKEditor WYSIWYG

• In-place editing

• Insert inline images

• Save as draft




Form & Display Modes

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• Customize entity forms

• Create and manage view modes for all entities

• Replaces Entity view modes module


Mobile

• Responsive themes

• Admin theme is mobilefriendly

• Mobile toolbar

• Overlay is gone!

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Views

Views is in core!

• Very minor differences in Drupal 8

• Embed Display

• Entity Reference Display

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Configuration API


Look Ma, No Features


Full Export/Import



Single Export/Import




Synchronization


Diff


Directories


Active/Staging


YAML


Active Directory


Custom Directory Location

settings.php


Thank You!

Questions?

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