Drupalcamp London: And all that jazz
Peter Jones
RMN, RGN, BA(Hons), PGCE, PG(Dip) COPE, MRES e-Research & TEL; Researcher & Blogger - Hodges Model
Drupalcamp London was a bootcamp literally in light of the weather. This affected the schedule a bit but it was well worth attending.
The first session on my list was not the intended module development but:
Flexible content editing with paragraphs and Drupal 8 - with Baddy Sonja Breidert who stepped in at short notice. We were encouraged to look at Open Doors as an example of Paragraphs being deployed. The fact that there were 25 types of paragraphs prompts the thought - not so much how many would I would need but the users? Apparently, paragraphs are not that user friendly to edit. Navigation was indicated 'Manage Display' - 'Preview' - 'Paragraph'. The 'environment indicator' flagged whether the site in use was live or dev: a reminder. A future tip included not using entities, but media for anything reusable. Reusable paragraphs were applied to banner and images, using simple entities. There were some special functions (and specific modules) in the table of contents, entity embed, entity browser, insert view and add map.