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Advanced Media ManagementFrom Drupal 7 to Drupal 8

Antti Alamäki &Jarkko Oksanen

Tieto Oyj, Customer Experience Management

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Who we areAntti Alamäki

SW Architectaalamaki

Jarkko Oksanen

SW Developersouless

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We will focus on

• Where do we stand now?

• What options do we have?

• What does the future look like?

Media management

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What is Media?

2013-09-09

Hmm.

VideosImages

Soundflash

Other entities

DocumentsFiles

TwitterFacebook

Soundcloud

Social MediaYoutube

Alfresco

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Media solutions in Drupal 7

Scald

Mediabox

Media/File entity

Asset

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Asset• Quick and easy to use UI• Easy to find content• Wysiwyg Drag’n Drop integration• Scald resembles Asset in many ways

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Mediabox● Easy to use user interface● Bulk upload functionality● Inline Cropping● Still in DEV phase

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● Easy installation, configuration and permissions

● Drag’n Drop interface with WYSIWYG integration

● Display modes

● Inline editing and configuring assets

● SOLR support for indexing the assets

Radio France

ARTELe Figaro

Africa 24

Tieto Oyj

Usability

Some Scald Users

France Info

Sante Magazine

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Asset holds METADATA

• Alternative tags• Title tags• Description tags• Captions• Related content• Site wide

Possibility to create custom fields that contain whatever metadata you want!

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Support for:● Video: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion● Sound: Audio, Soundcloud now a

separate project (Scald: Soundcloud)● Image: standard image files● Tweet: Twitter now a separate

project (Scald: Twitter)● Flash: SWF files

● Multiple data providers

● The power of CTools

● Extensible core with API interface for creating new providers

● Separate entities for Scald (scald atoms)

Developers perspective

Scald Users

Radio France

ARTELe Figaro

Africa 24

Tieto Oyj

France Info

Sante Magazine

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Custom Scald ProvidersScald providers by Tieto:

● Scald RSS Channel

● Scald Facebook Channel

● Scald Twitter Channel

● Scald File Provider

● Scald Title Link

● Scald Webpage

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(back to)The Future

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Media Entity• Combine the best properties of management systems• Provide a rich UI (entity_browser) to manage content• Best devs in the community working on a solution

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Media EntityEntity that can be referenced into a node or another entity.

Media Bundle

Inception“An entity within an entity?”

Fields-Image / Video / File

-Title-Caption

-Other metadata or fields

“My” bundle

An entity is created or upd

Theory:

In action:

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Entity BrowserA browser and a library for the entities created by Media

entity. Will try to have a “Scald like” UI, with many improvements

Our“Inception”

entity

Entity Browser library

Any place that allows references

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Result: ??

“An entity within an entity?”

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Going from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8Upgrade path will be available from Scald to Media Entity

DRUPAL 7 DRUPAL 8

Scald_atom

Drag’n Drop

Scald_dnd_library

Media entity

Entity Browser

Backend:

UI/Front-end:

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Status right now“I'm sure that Media Entity worked last weekend, didn't work a

week before, and I don't know if it still works now :-/”-Jcisio

● Google SoC Sprints● There is ALOT of discussion● Entity Browser far from done● Many question marks

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How you can help?Contact one of the guys:• jcisio• slashrsm • andypost

Get in with the discussion in:• https://groups.drupal.org/node/327768

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Now we know.

Media management

• Where do we stand now• What options do we have• What does the future look

like

Conclusions & Questions?

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