Talking Drupal #517 - The Event Platform Levels Up

Today we are talking about Drupal’s Event Platform, What’s new, and what’s to come with guest Martin Anderson-Clutz. We’ll also cover ECA Tamper as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/517

Topics

• What is Event Platform
• New Features and Multi-Event Architecture
• Event Platform Theme: Event Horizon
• Managing Contribution Time
• Event Platform Workflow Features
• Transitioning to Recipes
• Module Installation Challenges in Drupal
• Event Platform Installation and Configuration
• Performance Improvements and Core Installer Issues
• Modular Design and Recipe Mapping
• Content Migration and Recipe Utilization
• Event Platform Adoption and Community Feedback
• Future Features and Enhancements for Event Platform
• Getting Started with Event Platform
• How to Get Involved with Event Platform

Resources

• Event Platform Starter on Drupal Forge
• Blog post: Smart Menu Links: Drupal navigation with the power of Views
• Recap: My Return to Drupal GovCon 2025!!
• Cussing in Commits: Which Programming Language Inspires the Most Swearing?
• Recipe installer issue for modules in bulk
• Upgrade path

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
James Sansbury - tugboatqa.com q0rban

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a flexible way to manipulate the data being used in your ECA models? There’s a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • ECA Tamper
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2022 by Jürgen Haas of Lake Drops
  • Versions available: 1.0.6 and 2.0.4, the latter of which supports Drupal 10.4 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
• Number of open issues: 6 open issues, none of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 1,087 sites
• Module features and usage
  • For anyone who hasn’t used it before, Tamper is a generic plugin system for transforming data. It’s often used with migrations and Feeds, where you need to make sure incoming data matches the data type of the field where it will be stored. We actually covered Feeds Tamper as MOTW all the way back in episode #056
  • For ECA you can use tamper plugins with conditions, so a model can compare against a modified result. Or, you can use the tamper plugins with actions, storing the result as a token that can be for subsequent actions.
  • I ended up using ECA Tamper in the Event Platform for a model that sends out emails if an accepted session has not yet been confirmed by the author, and the session confirmation is a specific number of days out, for example 3 days away and one day away