the future of the rules module in drupal 8

FUTURE OF THE RULES MODULE IN DRUPAL 8And how we can help shape the story

STAN ASCHER

WHO AM I?• Site Builder• Front End Developer• Themer• Talker

WHATS GOING ON HERE?

WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT HERE• What is Rules and Why its

successful • The #drupal8rules initiative• Progress so far• Sneak Peak at UI• Outside integrations• How to contribute

THE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND RULES

THE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND RULES: HELPING THE SITE BUILDER

THE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND RULES: INTERGRATIONS

Workbench Webform Drupal Commerce Content Access

Flag Organic Groups Token

Ubercart Voting Twitter Features

Context Message

PROGRESS :CHALLENGES AND MILESTONES

FAGO AND KLAUSIMaintainers of the Rules ModulesHave lots of other Drupal ModulesContributors to Drupal 8

FUNDING GOAL & PROJECT DEVELOPMENT HOURSDrunomics and Epiqo can’t afford taking the bill for the entire project.1048 projected hours of development Companies will charge rate of € 45/h net cost.(

WHAT’S DONE?

DRUPAL 8 CORE INTEGRATION & RULES CORE ENGINE: DONEMilestone 1 of Drupal Rules Module Beta • Rules core engine & plug-in types (Services-

based architecture, interfaces, tests)• Align Rules condition & action APIs with

Drupal 8 core (Dynamic action parameters & context variables)

• Parameter configuration & Context mapping• Parameter value processing logic (Data

processor plug-ins & Input tokens)

Reusable components• Plug-in based architecture & fully object-

oriented code• Rules data selector for tokens, contexts

and other use cases• Typed data widgets & formatters

DRUPAL 8 CORE INTEGRATION & RULES CORE ENGINE: DONE

Evolved developer experienceUnified DX based on Drupal 8 plug-in systemSymfony 2 event system integrationDeployable configuration via the CMI

• Rules will be in your .yml files• Rules will show up in your Configuration Management Interface

DRUPAL 8 CORE INTEGRATION & RULES CORE ENGINE: DONE

WHAT’S LEFT?

MILESTONE 2: RULES CORE API COMPLETION

MILESTONE 2: RULES CORE API COMPLETIONGoal: Ensure the Rules APIs are ready early enough, so all other contributed modules that get ported to Drupal 8 can have Rules integrations right from beginning.• Complete Rules engine features (Metadata assertions,

logging service, developer docs)• Rules plug-ins part two (Events, Loops, caching,

recursion prevention, components API)• Configuration management system support (config entity,

CMI support, integrity checks & config schema)• Generic rules integrations (Typed data & entity support)• Entity token support

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SITE BUILDERS?

THE USER INTERFACE: THE RULES UI

MILESTONE 3: RULES UI FOR 8.X RELEASE(Goal: Site builders will be able to start configuring workflows on their Drupal 8 sites from November 2014 on, when Rules 8.x will be released.Rules UI (Rules settings and administration screens with Drupal 8 usability improvements)Reusable UI components (Data selector, Typed data widgets and formatters, embeddable condition and action forms)Rules schedulerPort existing Rules integrations (Comments, Nodes, Taxonomy, User, New entity types)

RETHINKING THE UI• Rules UI should not be its own

beast but try to leverage as much of the patterns & UI components that we have in D8 already.

• borrow add dialogs from Views UI or Block UI?

• try to come up with a draggable table solution that works for nested rule configurations

D7 BROWSE RULE

D8 BROWSE RULES

RULES EDIT SCREEN OVERVIEW

RULES EDIT SCREEN OVERVIEW: ADD EVENT

RULES EDIT SCREEN: ADD EVENT

RULES EDIT SCREEN OVERVIEW: ADD CONDITION

EDITING A CONDTION GROUP

EDITING A CONDTION GROUP: CHANGE CONDITION

EDITING A CONDITION GROUP WITHIN A CONDTION GROUP

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