The document details Acquia Lightning, a Drupal 8 distribution aimed at enhancing enterprise authoring experiences. It discusses the challenges faced by Al Jazeera with their multiple CMS platforms and the need for a unified system, which Lightning aims to provide through features like flexible content management and media integration. The roadmap for Lightning's development includes improvements in editorial workflows and media management functionalities.

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Mai Irie – Software Architect, Phase2
John Kennedy – Product Manager, Acquia
Using Lightning To Build A
Future-Focused Drupal 8 Media
Platform

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John Kennedy
– Product Manager, Acquia Lightning
– @commercejohn

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Mai Irie
– Software Architect, Phase2
– Mirie
– IRC, drupal.org

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Overview
– What is Acquia Lightning?
– Goals for Al Jazeera’s Unified CMS
– Platform functionality highlights
– Lightning Roadmap

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What Is Lightning?
The Drupal 8 Distribution
for Enterprise Authoring

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The Mission
Enable developers to build great
enterprise authoring experiences
for their editorial teams with D8

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Persona
Site
Builder
Persona
Content
Author
Persona
Site
Designer
Persona
Developer

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What is Lightning?
Integrations TestingSecurity
Layout Workflow Preview Media

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Current Challenges of Al Jazeera’s
– Multiple CMS platforms
– Overstretched support, operations and maintenance
– Fragmented technology investments
– Multi-skilled resource hunt
– Difficult editor-exchange arrangements
– Multilingual

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Solution: A Unified CMS
Requirements:
– A flexible platform
– Control over all content streams
– An architecture that accommodates structured content
– An interface for multiple content editors

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Why Did We Chose Lightning?
Requirements
– Provided a great baseline for the platform:
– Page Layout
– Content Workflow
– Media Management
– Reliable and transparent roadmap:
– drupal.org/node/2670686

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How To Build With Lightning
There Are Three Ways:
1. Install Lightning and just build from there.
2. Use an extend.yml file
– Example implementation = Acme Lightning
– github.com/balsama/acme-lightning-extend
3. Use the patch for extending the profile:
– drupal.org/node/1356276

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Platform Functionality Highlights

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MODULES ENABLED IN LIGHTNING FOR MEDIA

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Modules
Continued

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Media
Media Entity
– Does not directly extend Drupal File Entity
– Non file-centric storage - does not assume that the media asset
is a file or even just a single asset
– Creates a new entity type: Media
– drupal.org/project/media_entity

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EXAMPLE: Tweet Media bundle

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EXAMPLE: Tweet Media bundle

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EXAMPLE: Tweet Media bundle

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EXAMPLE: Tweet Media bundle

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EXAMPLE: Tweet Media bundle

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ENTITY
EMBED
&
ENTITY
BROWSER
ENTITY
BROWSER

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Entity Browser
– Allows you to browse, create and select entities on the system
(not Media Entity-specific)
– Can be used in different contexts (for a field or with an Entity
Embed button)
– Uses CTools form wizard for a multi-step workflow of selecting
the image(s)
– drupal.org/project/entity_browser

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Lightning: Entity Browser Example

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Entity Embed
– Allows any entity to be embedded within a text area using a
WYSIWYG editor.
– Enable the entity-embed filter: Display embedded entities for the
desired text formats
– If the Limit allowed HTML tags filter is enabled, add
<drupal-entity data-*> to the Allowed HTML tags.
– To enable the WYSIWYG plugin, move the entity-embed E button
into the Active toolbar for the desired text formats.
– Dependency on Embed module: drupal.org/project/embed

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Example: Entity Embed Button

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Lightning: Entity Embed Example

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Media bundle resolvers are plugins which determine which media bundle(s) are
appropriate for handling an input value.
The input value can be of any type, and the resolver needs to figure out which
media bundle -- singular! -- is best suited to handle that input.
BundleResolverInterface: lightning_media/src/BundleResolverInterface.php
BundleResolverBase: lightning_media/src/BundleResolverBase.php
BundleResolver

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Media Roadmap
Lightning is serving as the driving force behind improvements in Core
– A plan for media management in Drupal 8
buytaert.net/a-plan-for-media-management-in-drupal-8
– Support remote media assets as first-class citizens
drupal.org/node/2801277
– [prototype] Create design for a Media Library
drupal.org/node/2796001
– Support WYSIWYG embedding of entities other than files
drupal.org/node/2801307

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Editorial Workflow

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MODULES ENABLED IN LIGHTNING FOR WORKFLOW

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Workflow Initiative
- Workflow Initiative: drupal.org/node/2721129
- Core conversation from DrupalCon Dublin:
youtube.com/watch?v=m5y9vKQL6Q8
- Content moderation module (Experimental Core Module):
drupal.org/documentation/modules/content_moderation
- Improving Drupal's content workflow:
buytaert.net/improving-drupal-content-workflow

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Content Moderation Flow
DRAFT NEEDS REVIEW PUBLISHED
ARCHIVED
RECALLED

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AJMN Workflow Module: Moderation History Tab

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– Lightning comes with a ton of Behat tests!
– We also wrote some Behat tests for the platform. We
targeted:
a. Workflow: new moderation state and transitions
b. User Permissions

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Lightning Roadmap 2017
Innovating in editorial experience:
– Workspace Preview System
– Themes:
– Product site
– Blog
– Corporate
– Scenarios
– Publishing
– Education
– Commerce

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Links
– Developer Site: http://lightning.acquia.com
– Github: https://github.com/acquia/lightning
– Video: http://bit.ly/lightning-video

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Questions?
Thank You!