Display Suite 2Kristof De Jaeger

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About me

• Kristof De Jaeger

• Drupal developer at Krimson

• @swentel

• Lead maintainer of Display Suite

• Other: sweaver, field_group, core

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Why Display Suite 2

• UX problems

• Get ready for the future: HTML 5

• Get new features in

• Fix some outstanding problems

• Because we just like to code

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Thank you

• Krimson

• Bram “aspilicious” Goffings

• Bojan and Yoroy

• All other sprinters during the DS Easter sprint

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UX analysis

• Mostly a problem for first time users

• They don’t know what todo

• They don’t have a clue where to click

• Thank you screencasts

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UX - main entry

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UX - layout overview

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UX - layout in wrong tab

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UX - change layout

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UX - change layout

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UX Battle planDefault entry to layout list - content aboveAll other become tabs or subtabs

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UX Battle planMake the layout tab the defaultAdd preview images with AJAXRemove the apply button

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UX Battle planRedesign the switch layout screenMake use of previews

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UX Battle plan

• Manage display tab or contextual is default

• Pre fill layout with default fields

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HTML 5

• Is this possible with 7.x-1.x ?

• YES

• Custom templates

• Only for layouts, not fields

• NO

• Not through the UI

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HTML 5

• HTML 5 wrappers for layout and regions

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HTML 5

• Wrappers for fields (fieldgroups)

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HTML 5

• templates are different now

• hide empty regions is gone

• they now support forms by default

• use drush ds-build to help you

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HTML 5

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Crazy field (templates)

• Expert template now supports

• default attributes

• custom attributes

• tokens in field item

• They are now in the cogwheel!

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Other things

• Alter before you render: hook_ds_prerender_alter

• Field permissions

• Flags support

• Views display supports hiding title

• More taxonomy formatters

• Views ‘delta’ fields

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IMPORTANT

• no upgrade path so far

• panel view modes is gone, use panelizer 7.x-3.x

• field template configuration has some problems, but that’s the last thing to fix

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DEMO

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Release

• Candidate release begin of june

• Official release probably 27th of june

• GO TEST and submit issues and/or patches

• http://drupal.org/project/ds

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Your questions

• Go crazy!

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Feedback & follow-up:http://drupalcampgent.be/feedback

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