Talking Drupal #497 - Drupal Forge

Today we are talking about Drupal Forge, how it works, and why
it’s changing Drupal with guest Darren Oh. We’ll also cover ECA
VBO as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/497
Topics

Elevator pitch for Drupal forge

What is Drupal Forge built on

What is the pricing model

Does Drupal Forge only allow you to install Drupal CMS

Drupal Forge and templates, was there an influence on Site
Templates

Why offer templates for Drupal Forge Camps

Is Drupal Forge open source

What is on the Roadmap

How can people get involved

Resources

Drupal Forge on Drupal.org

Drupal Forge

DevPanel

Guests

Darren Oh - drupalforge.org Darren Oh
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Kathy Beck - kbeck303
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted a powerful and flexible way to
create views bulk operations without writing code? There’s a
module for that.



Module name/project name:

ECA VBO



Brief history

How old: created in May 2022 by mxh, a prolific
maintainer in his own right, and an active member of the
group that has made the ECA ecosystem so far-reaching

Versions available: 1.1.1 and 2.1.1, the latter of which
supports ^10.3 || ^11



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Security coverage

Documentation: sort of. The README has step-by-step
instructions, and the project page has links to both an
example model and a tutorial video



Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 1 of which are bugs
against the current branch

Usage stats:

320 sites



Module features and usage

With the module installed, your site will have a number
of Events available within ECA, specifically for defining
models that can perform bulk actions on the selected items in
a view. In my own experience the most useful event is VBO:
Execute Views bulk operation (one by one)

From there, you can define the logic of what needs to
happen to the selected items. I’ve used it for fairly simple
operations like changing content to a specific moderation
state, but you could define complex logic that is conditional
on field values, site configuration, or even global factors
like the time of day

With one or more models defined, you can now add a field
to your view for ECA bulk operations and then select which
eligible models you want available in that specific view

It’s worth adding that the ECA model can also include
logic to define who should have access to perform a
particular operation, which could be as simple as checking
the role of the current user, but can be as complex as you
need

I came across ECA VBO during some recent work on the
Drupal Event Platform, which is already available to try out
on Drupal Forge, but there should be a more formal
announcement on that front soon