Stupendous Date Tricks - Drupal GovCon 2024

Managing dates and times on a website can be complicated. Drupal can make it easy, especially now that recipes make it fast and easier than ever to get set up the right way.

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Date Tricks
Recipes Edition!
Martin Anderson-Clutz
Senior Solutions Engineer, Acquia

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Martin Anderson-Clutz
@mandclu
@[email protected]

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2024
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Sponsors

4. Photo: https://unsplash.com/@brucemars

5. Photo: https://unsplash.com/@brucemars

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Recipes Used
●Events
●Events Calendar
●Events Locations
○Locations
●Events Registration

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Modules Used
●Smart Date (+ Smart Date Recur)
●Date Augmenter API
●Date Content Augmenter
●Add to Calendar Date Augmenter
●Fullcalendar View
●Registration

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Admin, SEO Modules Used
●Add Content by Bundle
●Pathauto
●Metatag
●(optionally Inline Entity Form too)

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Locations: Modules Used
●Address
●Geocoder
●Geofield
●Leaflet

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“Fresh” install
●Projects every site should use:
○Gin (Drupal CMS?)
■Gin Toolbar
●Personal favorites
○Keysave
○Node Type Defaults
●For the sake of time
○Geocoder
■Google Maps API key

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Case 1: Install Events system
●Fresh install of Drupal 11
●Easy to use date widget
○All day checkbox
●Intelligent deduplication in date output
●Add-to-calendar links

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Case 2: Monthly Meetups
●Repeats on the second Thursday of each month
●Set and display timezone
●Each meetup needs:
○Topic
○Presenter(s)
○Meetup link

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Case 3: Weekly Concerts
●Each concert needs:
○Artist(s)
■Image
■Show bio
○Description
●Repeats on Tuesday, Friday

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Case 4: Daily Standup
●Repeats Monday to Friday
●Add to calendar on the series, not individual
dates
●Add scrum notes
●Show the series rule, the next occurrence,
and the three most recent

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What Haven’t We Covered?
●Other modules:
○Fullcalendar View advanced config
○Entity Registration advanced setup
○Bookable Calendar
○Entity Browser
●Other use cases?

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The Smoke and Mirrors
●Patches applied to core:
○[#3464160] Warnings output when importing a view using tab links
○[#3467262] For a page display designated "Default menu tab" a parent menu link is not created
●Patches to Registration
○[#3465606] Make compatible with Drupal 11

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The Smoke and Mirrors
●Patches applied:
○[#3464160] Warnings output when importing a view using tab links
○[#3467262] For a page display designated "Default menu tab" a parent menu link is not created
●Recipe hacks
○Alerts and Quick Links have associated modules for formatting
○Added to recipe.yml files so installed as recipe applied

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Making the Complex Easy
●Within 45 minutes
●Fresh install of Drupal
●Small(ish) number of modules for the range of
capabilities
●4+ complex use cases

…without writing any code!

19. Questions?
@mandclu
Stickers!

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Some Extra Details
●https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySHnQ6xz7Vg
●Pre-recipes version from
Drupalcamp NJ