Sector(s)

Team Members

marvin_b8, Marcus Maihoff, mathias.w, Lars Bo Jensen, R.Hendel, T.Siefert

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Community contributions

Blizz Table Field
Blizz Table Field allows editorial users to publish summary tables for the results of the races easily. Handling of tables feels like working in Libre Office or Excel.

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.

Blizz Dynamic Entitylist
Teasers everywhere with Blizz Dynamic Entitylist.
This module enables editorial users with an easy way to place dynamic lists of teasers within paragraphs content.

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.

triathlon | Insider. Coach. Expert.

The current scene magazine with many news and background-stories.

A major relaunch – based on Drupal 8 – for our longtime customer spomedis GmbH.

  • new layout
  • new features
  • the latest version of the content management system

One challenge was to start the project in September 2015 basing on a beta version, before Drupal 8 has officially been launched.

The international version triathlonworld.com and the sibling site swim.de were also realized on the same code-basis.

About the project

Simplify the creation of editorial added value ✔
Reportages, photos and videos - all of this can be brought into the system in a comfortable and attractive way.

Make the user services attractive ✔
From the training diary to nutrition tips and shoe tests, blog posts and other articles full of interesting information, as well as exclusive video clips of well-known professional athletes - supplement the website with multimedia content.

Rise added value and usability ✔
Facebook connection, competitions with prizes especially for sports freaks and information on the published print editions generate further added value.

Make it mobile ✔
No comment ... ;-)

By the way: The website has mastered all the challenges during the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio.

Why Drupal was chosen

We have used Drupal previously on various projects and know how to create customized websites that are really fitting the customer's needs. Drupal 8 is certainly a powerful tool for web CMS and provides great features for online magazines.

So – that's why we use it:

The Drupal framework provides a lot of common CMS functionality 'out-of-the-box' and those features are important requirements for our clients. We also had to make sure choosing a framework flexible enough to fully accommodate the complex business logic we had to deal with in this project.

Technical Specifications

Drupal version:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

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.

MIGRATE
The migrate module provides a flexible framework for migrating content into Drupal from other sources (e.g., when converting a web site from another CMS to Drupal). Out-of-the-box, support for creating core Drupal objects such as nodes, users, files, terms, and comments are included - it can easily be extended for migrating other kinds of content.

EForm
The EForm module enables you to create front-end forms (fieldable entities), which contain fields that you define! These forms use the standard Drupal fields. This means that out of the box, you can use any standard Drupal node field! As of the time this article was written, there were over three hundred "field" modules. And since EForms are "Drupal entities", you will automatically be able to use future "field" modules!

Media Entity
This module has moved to Drupal 8 core! Starting with Drupal 8.4 there is a Media module in Drupal core, which includes the base API from Media Entity, as well as most of the functionality provided by Media Entity Image and Media Entity Document.
The base API was added to 8.4.x so that contrib maintainers and module developers can start porting their modules to the new API. In future releases (8.5.x, etc), more features and UX improvements will be added and the module will then be considered ready for general usage.

VIEWS
Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious uses of Views:

  • You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently.
  • You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
  • You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type.
  • You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles the way you like.
  • You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some particular type.
  • You want to provide 'unread forum posts'.

Media Browser
Media Browser provides a Views style plugin extension that formats a display in an easy-to-use content browser. Since users may be familiar with this kind of browsers from YouTube or other video sharing websites the module is called Media Browser even if, more generally, its style plugin can be applied to any kind of content.