1. Integrating
Files
Into D7 Authoring Workflow
Matt Mendonca

2. Me
IT Specialist (i.e. Web Developer) at the
Institute of Standards and Technology
Previously a Developer at
(FleishmanHillard) and
High Rock Studios
National
VOX Global
2+ years professional experience with Drupal

3. You May Recall
John Venable from NIST presented last month.
(he is exceptionally tall)

4. True Story...
I am taller than John.
(in certain circumstances)

5. Moving Along...

6. Contents
What are we trying to do
How we are doing it
Questions
Demo

7. What Are We Trying
To Do
In the process of moving from CommonSpot to
Drupal. We need to meet or exceed CommonSpot's
features.
Fieldable files
Revisionable files
Add files from and insert files into the WYSIWYG

8. How are we doing it
Media module and...
First implementation: John let's just use a file field
Actual first implementation: custom module(s)
https://github.com/matt-mendonca/ck-browser
Don't actually use it; you've been warned
Current implementation: Media 7.x-2.0, and others,
complemented by custom modules

9. Living Dangerously
You're about to hear stuff like "dev branch" and
"patch" - Media handling in Drupal is in flux.
Don't do this unless you are comfortable blowing
things up and fixing it.

10. Contrib Modules
Media 7.x-2.0-alpha3
File Entiy 7.x-2.0-alpha3
File entity Revisions 7.x-1.x-dev (and patches)
Rabbit Hole (files) 7.x-2.23 (and patch)
WYSIWYG 7.x-2.x-dev

11. Media
https://www.drupal.org/project/media
Provides a framework for handling files, images,
videos, etc
Using 2.0-alpha over 1.x stable because of the file
entity module
Dev branch tends to break frequently
"...New is always better[, Ted]."

12. File Entity
https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity
Adds an entity for files. Allows you to field files like
you would nodes, users, etc
Using 2.0-alpha; it is the most stable release

13. File Entity Revisions
https://www.drupal.org/project/file_entity
Kind of a mess right now, however, it allows file
entities to have revisions
Using latest dev ( makes the actual file revisonable
)
and these patches:
Add a revisions tab to files:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2097975
Set the default revision status for file types:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2259049

14. Rabbit Hole
https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbit_hole
Allows us to redirect anonymous users directly to
the file from the file entity
Doesn't tie us to a layout solution (panels could do this too)
Using latest stable and the following patch:
Undefined index on file entity form:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2315761

15. WYSIWYG
https://www.drupal.org/project/WYSIWYG
Adds a WYSIWYG
Not using CK Editor module because it breaks
with Media 2
We are using the CK Editor text editor
Using latest dev of module since it supports recent
versions of CK Editor

16. Custom Modules
File Entity Link Display Mode
Media Browser Override

17. File Entity Link Display
Mode
https://github.com/matt-mendonca/
file_entity_link_display_mode
Adds a display mode for file entities that links to the
file entity, not the file itself.

18. Media Browser
Override
https://github.com/matt-mendonca/
media_browser_override
Overrides (as cleanly as possible) some of Media 2's
media browser WYSIWYG plugin functionality.
Default to WYSIWYG display format
Skip view mode form in the media browser
Alter media browser plugin js

19. How everything fits
together
Media provides the ground work
Media browser WYSIWYG plugin (part of Media 2) allows us to
add and insert media from a wyswiwyg
File Entity and File Entity Revisions lets us interact
with files like nodes
Rabbit Hole allows us to have a link to the file that
will always (within reason) be correct
Custom modules fill in the gaps

20. Questions?

21. <shameless-plug>
podium js
</shameless-plug>

22. Demo