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Drupal Panopoly The site builder's best friend.
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Drupal Camp Vienna 2015
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Matthias Walti Drupal Site Builder
Occasional CopywriterDeveloper
One-man Drupal shop in Switzerlandwww.mazze.ch@matthiaswalti
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Yes, it’s about site building How the Drupal Panopoly distribution changed
the way I build websites in the last two years.
And how I learnt to think beyond websites.
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What most of my customers were previously using
Typo 3Wordpress
JimdooMagentoShopifyMoodle
Proprietary systemsAgency-specific systems
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Four years ago…
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But…
…there were better ways to build a Drupal site even back then.
And I also knew about Features, Panels, Distributions…
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Panels, Features, Context…
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Drupal Distributions Atrium
Open PublicCommerce Kickstart
OpignoRestaurantOpen CivicRecruiter
ERPAL
and much more….
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Distributions are great for selling Drupal…
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difficult to customize, a nightmare to theme.
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What I ended up with… (Building the same functions over and over again)
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“Start building your website from the 10th floor”
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Welcome to the Drupal Panopoly Distribution.
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“Panels Magic for the masses”
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Responsive layouts
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Stable contrib modules
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Compatible contrib modules
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Site building elements
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Improvements for site editors (read: your customer)
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Preconfigured roles (e.g. editor)
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Preconfigured field types
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Software update, settings update
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Common scenarios (e.g. Search)
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Responsive backend
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Apps
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But this is just the beginning… How Panopoly really changed the way I work within one year…
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Panopoly forced me to quit my comfort zones
(Yes, actually more than one)
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I learnt that Features is not that hard.
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I started extending Panopoly
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I have my own modules
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I have my own “modules”
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Pre-defined panel panes
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Pre-defined views
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Basic design patterns
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Build things once. Build them right.
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My 10th floor… Plenty of tested functions and layouts right after the installation
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Improved editor experience
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I have great customer quotes
«The software is amazing, simple
and logical. Seems that maintaining our website can even be fun.»
(Actually, I did not ask this customer for any quote at all)
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«As simple as Wordpress. As flexible as Drupal.»
(Well, to be honest: I am not quite there yet)
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I have a much clearer viewhow to make the move
from service provider to platform
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Issues with Panopoly
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Panopoly is not multilingual by default
Issues with FPP (Fieldable Panel Panes) when using Entity Translation, requires workarounds.
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Panopoly does not come with CKEditor
Uses TinyMCE and the WYSIWYG module.Loading CKEditor requires to break some dependencies.
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I want my Display Suite…;-) Can be added, but sometimes interferes
with the Panel/Pages concept (minor issue)
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Panopoly 2.0
Development for Drupal 8 has started.
Due to Drupal 8 core improvements, several modules will be obsolete.
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Therefore we can expect a working version to be ready… when it’s ready;-)
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Try Panopoly https://www.getpantheon.com/
https://www.drupal.org/project/panopoly
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(Off topic) !
Plays nicely with Panopoly:www.codyhouse.co
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Questions?