Drupal Panopoly | Drupal Camp Vienna 2015

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Drupal Panopoly
The site builder's best friend.
!
Drupal Camp Vienna 2015

Matthias Walti
Drupal Site Builder 
Occasional Copywriter 
Developer
One-man Drupal shop in Switzerland 
www.mazze.ch 
@matthiaswalti

Yes, it’s about site building
How the Drupal Panopoly distribution changed 
the way I build websites in the last two years.
And how I learnt to think beyond websites.

What most of my customers  
were previously using
Typo 3 
Wordpress 
Jimdoo 
Magento 
Shopify 
Moodle 
Proprietary systems 
Agency-specific systems

Four years ago…

But…
…there were better ways to build a
Drupal site even back then.
And I also knew about Features, Panels, Distributions…

Panels, Features, Context…

Drupal Distributions
Atrium 
Open Public 
Commerce Kickstart 
Opigno 
Restaurant 
Open Civic 
Recruiter 
ERPAL
and much more….

Distributions are great
for selling Drupal…

difficult to customize,
a nightmare to theme.

What I ended up with…
(Building the same functions over and over again)

“Start building your website from
the 10th floor”

Welcome to the  
Drupal Panopoly Distribution.

“Panels Magic for the masses”

Responsive layouts

Stable contrib modules

Compatible contrib modules

Site building elements

Improvements for site editors  
(read: your customer)

Preconfigured roles (e.g. editor)

Preconfigured field types

Software update, settings update

Common scenarios (e.g. Search)

Responsive backend

Apps

But this is just the beginning…
How Panopoly really changed the way I work within one year…
!

Panopoly forced me to quit my
comfort zones
(Yes, actually more than one)

I learnt that Features is not that hard.

I started extending Panopoly

I have my own modules
!
!
I have my own “modules”

Pre-defined panel panes

Pre-defined views

Basic design patterns

Build things once. Build them right.

My 10th floor…
Plenty of tested functions and layouts right after the installation

Improved editor experience

I have great customer quotes
 
«The software is amazing, simple
and logical. Seems that maintaining
our website can even be fun.»
(Actually, I did not ask this customer for any quote at all)

«As simple as Wordpress.  
As flexible as Drupal.»
(Well, to be honest: I am not quite there yet)

I have a much clearer view 
how to make the move 
from service provider to platform

Issues with Panopoly

Panopoly is not multilingual  
by default
Issues with FPP (Fieldable Panel Panes)  
when using Entity Translation, requires workarounds.

Panopoly does not come  
with CKEditor
Uses TinyMCE and the WYSIWYG module. 
Loading CKEditor requires to break some dependencies.

I want my Display Suite…;-)
Can be added, but sometimes interferes  
with the Panel/Pages concept (minor issue)

Panopoly 2.0
 
Development for Drupal 8 has started.  
 
Due to Drupal 8 core improvements,  
several modules will be obsolete.
!
Therefore we can expect a working version  
to be ready… when it’s ready;-)

Try Panopoly
https://www.getpantheon.com/ 
https://www.drupal.org/project/panopoly

(Off topic)
!
Plays nicely with Panopoly: 
www.codyhouse.co

Questions?

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