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Blizz Bulk Creator
The Blizz Bulk Creator module makes creating large numbers of entities easier. It lets users enter a value in a single field and fills other fields with customizable default values.
In the nordschleswiger.dk project parallel node settings were needed for click-routes.
Blizz Dynamic Entitylist
This module provides a way to define dynamic lists of entities using a simple interface. The list definition is stored in a custom field, which can be attached to any fieldable content entity.
The field widget allows editors to enrich their list definitions with filters based upon taxonomy terms and provides a live preview within the edit form on the list result. This result is not static, so every time content matching the list criteria gets entered in the system the output of the list adapts subsequently.
Also, editors are able to choose the view mode in which the entities get rendered.
Nimbus
Nimbus is a configuration management tool aimed at extending the configuration import functionality of Drupal core to support the import from multiple concurrent configuration directories for sophisticated configuration deployment workflows using dependency management tools.
Nimbus enhances and replaces the regular configuration synchronization process and the "drush config-import" command.
– Hyggelig and focused –
For our danish customer „Der Nordschleswiger" comm-press designed and build the new online edition of the traditional newspaper in close cooperation with the customer.
Targed group: nordschleswiger.dk is a source of information and a forum for the german minority in Denmark.
Our challenge: „Improve the reading experience!"
- The website should appear with a new contemporary design, that improves user guidance.
- The website needs to be optimized for mobile devices – customers main requirement, because the existing website was not.
About the project
The existing CMS has been replaced by Drupal 8.
Overall, the relaunch should promote the "NEWS idea" for nordschleswiger.dk
That means:
- creating editorial added value ✔
- planning overview pages ✔
- time-controlled publishing of articles ✔
- preparing content-overviews in manual as well as dynamic teaser lists for improving user guidance ✔
In brief: News should be published on the website as fast as possible, and the backend should support granular and customized editorial workflows.
Why Drupal was chosen
Online newspapers or magazines deals with thousands of pages from recent and past editions. Drupal will handle that very well, so Drupal was chosen for several reasons and out-ranked other solutions chiefly because it fulfilled many of the requirements.
Drupal 8 is certainly a powerful tool for web CMS and provides great features for online newspapers or magazines.
So – That's why we use it:
- Performance. Symphony based Drupal 8 features a MVC (Model-View-Controller) structure. MVC increases page performance and decreases database activities.
- Workflow. Contributed modules – such as Workflow, or Workbench – are specially designed for content management hierarchy process.
- Caching. Drupal 8 uses TWIG as a template engine with Page rebuild cache functionality - important for websites for newspapers or magazines. - important for websites like newspaper or magazine.
- CDN. Easy to embed: Digital Asset Management support for third party providers
- And after all – there is Thunder ... Thunder consists of the current Drupal 8 functionality, lots of handpicked publisher-centric modules with custom enhancements, and an environment which makes it easy to install, deploy and add new functionality.
Technical Specifications
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Key modules/theme/distribution used:
THUNDER
Thunder is a Drupal 8 distribution for professional publishing. It consists of the current Drupal 8 functionality, lots of handpicked publisher-centric modules with custom enhancements, and an environment which makes it easy to install, deploy and add new functionality.
SCHEDULER
Scheduler gives content editors the ability to schedule nodes to be published and unpublished at specified dates and times in the future.
Dates can be entered either as plain text or with calendar popups. To use calendar popups in Drupal 7 you need to install the Date Popup module, which is part of the Date module. In Drupal 8 this is built into core.
WEBFORMS
Webform is the module for making forms and surveys in Drupal. After a submission customizable e-mails can be sent to administrators and/or submitters. Results can be exported into Excel or other spreadsheet applications. Webform also provides some basic statistical review and has an extensive API for expanding its features.
PARAGRAPHS
This module provides flexibility to associate data with a node in terms of frontend positioning and variants in different fields. It is a wonderful module for a multi-tenant website to have individual homepages or landing pages with different layouts and fields variants.
IMAGE CROP
Provides an interface for using the features of the Crop API. This element provides an UX for using a crop on all fields images or file elements. This module has particularity to purpose capability to crop the same image by “Crop type” configured. It’s very useful for editorial sites or media management sites.
FACEBOOK INSTANT ARTICLES
The Facebook Instant Articles modules allow administrators to add content from a Drupal site to Facebook, to be viewed on mobile devices as Instant Articles.
