Authored by Nadiia Nykolaichuk.

This week started with undoing the horrors that y’all were subjected to last week: TwoTerribleTextAreasWidget featured prominently. The follow-up that I mentioned landed (Ben “bnjmnm” Mullins and I collaborated on it), which with a +110,-245 diff resulted in something that still is nowhere near a final UX, but is starting to look reasonable.

The evolved component instance props form: much simpler (it looked Frankensteinish a week ago!), by using the appropriate field widgets directly. Issue #3461422.

(Next up on that front: #3462310: Component props form: make form elements match design.)

That right sidebar is overlaid on top of the canvas, which also saw a big leap forward this week — thanks to Jesse “jessebaker” Baker, Harumi “hooroomoo” Jang, Ben “bnjmnm” Mullins and Lauri — a true team effort:

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The Drop Times will host a stall at Drupal GovCon 2024 from August 13th to 15th. Stop by to discuss Drupal’s impact on public sector digital transformation and explore its future potential.

Here's what I've been working on for my Drupal contributions this week. Thanks to Code Enigma for sponsoring the time to work on these.

Much like my last update things are going well. I am able to spend 2 full days every week on contribution and my commit activity has increased quite a lot. Many thanks to my sponsors: Palantir.net, OPTASY, and new ones who joined in the past few weeks: Vardot, OpenSense Labs, and Liip.ch.

Now some numbers, since the last update I committed 82 issues (worth 820 weighted issue credits), that’s about 33 issues per month (or 330 issue credits). That’s a few more issues per week than before. There is still room to increase the commit activity with more sponsors so don’t hesitate to check out how to sponsor my contribution in core.

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Only Seven Days to Submit Your Session! Published Date Thursday, August 8th, 2024 - 04:47 pm bcross Thu, 08/08/2024 - 16:47 Do It This Week! 

Twin Cities Drupal Camp 2024 kicks off on September 12th-13th, on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The deadline for Session Submission is only a week away on August 15th. You still have time to send in your session proposals to help create this event. 

We have received many great new sessions for Twin Cities Drupal Camp 2024. Read our the Blog post “Send Us Your Session” to find a sampler of accepted sessions and ideas from last year's camp.

Submitting Your Session is Easy 

Simply fill out the submission form with your session title, description, and any additional details you’d like to provide. 

Our session review team will go through all submissions in order to select a diverse and engaging lineup of sessions for Twin Cities Drupal Camp 2024. Sessions will be accepted on a rolling basis. This means you are more likely to get your session accepted if you send it in today! 

Submit a Session

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A few weeks ago, we introduced the concept of "tracks" as the next step in progressing the Drupal Starshot project. Tracks are smaller, focused parts of the project that allow for targeted development and contributions.

At the same time, we put out a call for Starshot track leads, and were overwhelmed by the response. We received nearly 65 submissions, showcasing a wide range of expertise and ambitious vision that made for a difficult review process.

Announcing new track leads

We are proud to announce the newest track leads, who bring to the Starshot team an impressive depth of experience both in Drupal and in their respective track space:

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Are you ready for 11?

Even though you may have just upgraded your current site to Drupal 10, there’s a new version that’s already here! Do you need to upgrade? If so, when?

Let's take a quick look at what 11.0 has to offer.

Here's what I've been working on for my LocalGov Drupal contributions this week. Thanks to Big Blue Door for sponsoring the time to work on these.

There's no doubt that the ECA module is changing the way Drupal sites are built  - at least for those of us that use it regularly. I recently used it to pre-populate a form field on a node add page and it turned out to be easier than I figured it would be.

The task was to pass the value I wanted to pre-populate into the form via a query string variable. Something like:

https://mysite.ddev.site/node/add/article?myvalue=1

On the node add page, there exists an entity reference field whose value I'd like to pre populate with a value of 1 (myvalue). 

Modules required

Modules used in the following solution are:

• Token
• BPMN.iO for ECA
• ECA BPMN (part of ECA module)
• ECA Form (part of ECA module)
• ECA UI (part of ECA module)
• ECA Core (part of ECA module)

The Token module is required because the ECA model will access the myvalue query string value via a token. 

ECA components

The ECA Form module (a sub-module of ECA) provides the necessary components to achieve the goal. 

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The Drupal website experienced a brief outage, but the issue has been resolved by the team. Fran Garcia Linares provided updates during the downtime, assuring users that the team was working on restoring services.

Presenting "Self-hosted DDEV on GitHub Actions" by Jon Pugh at DrupalGovCon 2024 Jon Pugh Thu, 08/08/2024 - 07:18

Next week I'm headed to DrupalGovCon 2024 to present on a brand new technique I created for hosting fast and reliable preview/test environments using DDEV and GitHub Actions.

DDEV supports what they call "Casual Hosting". With the right config tweaks, you can run multiple DDEV sites on a server for hosting sites on the internet.

JAKALA, the leading data and AI-driven portfolio company of Ardian Buyout has acquired FFW, a key player in digital experience solutions. This acquisition, the largest non-publicly traded digital agency deal in Europe for 2023, expands JAKALA's global footprint and service offerings, pushing its workforce to over 3,000 professionals and turnover beyond €500 million. The merger aims to enhance client experiences through combined expertise in data, technology, and AI.

Drupal and AEM are two popular content management systems used by many companies. They offer advanced features for creating, editing, and publishing content but differ in many ways. In this article, we will compare Drupal to AEM to help you find the right CMS for your needs.

Jose Daniel Estrada's new application, Dresktop, simplifies Drupal project management with multi-platform support, Docker integration, and robust tools for deployment and updates. Available on MacOS, Windows (soon), and Linux, Dresktop is a free, open-source solution for developers.

Drupal 11 was released on August 2nd, 2024. A lot has changed since Drupal 10, and a lot of preliminary work has been done that will help with Drupal Starshot. Besides improvements made to CKEditor integration, a revamp of the Field UI, performance improvements, and revisions for taxonomy terms, several big changes have been included to help the ambitious site builder.

In the previous article, we began migrating configuration from Drupal 7 example site to our Drupal 10 instance, specifically content types. In today's article, we will continue with two more D7 entities: taxonomy vocabularies and field collections. The latter will be imported as Paragraphs in Drupal 10. Along the way, we will review the content model and the migration plan. This will help us determine what parts of the migration should be automated and what can be performed manually.

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Extended Review of Backward Compatibility Questions When Upgrading to Drupal 11 admin Wed, 08/07/2024 - 16:11

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

Drupal Starshot aims to attract mid-market marketers by offering out-of-the-box marketing best practices, user-friendly tools, AI-driven site building features, all while maintaining the many advantages of Drupal Core.

I'm excited to share the first version of Drupal Starshot's product strategy, a document that aims to guide the development and marketing of Drupal Starshot. To read it, download the full Drupal Starshot strategy document as a PDF (8 MB).

This strategy document is the result of a collaborative effort among the Drupal Starshot leadership team, the Drupal Starshot Advisory Council, and the Drupal Core Committers. We also tested it with marketers who provided feedback and validation.

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This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

Drupal Starshot aims to attract mid-market marketers by offering out-of-the-box marketing best practices, user-friendly tools, AI-driven site building features, all while maintaining the many advantages of Drupal Core.

I'm excited to share the first version of Drupal Starshot's product strategy, a document that aims to guide the development and marketing of Drupal Starshot. To read it, download the full Drupal Starshot strategy document as a PDF (8 MB).

This strategy document is the result of a collaborative effort among the Drupal Starshot leadership team, the Drupal Starshot Advisory Council, and the Drupal Core Committers. We also tested it with marketers who provided feedback and validation.

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