fluxkraft

Neben unserem Training "Learn Rules in a day" durften wir auf der DrupalCon in Prag auch eine Session zum Thema "Automating and linking together Web Services and APIs using Rules" halten.

Recently, the Drupal 7 Rules module has received some new functionality - mostly thanks to the development of the fluxkraft project. Quite some of them are under-the-hood improvements available to developers, but there is new stuff for site builders as well. So let's have a look at what's new for everyone using Rules and at what's in for developers also:

Configurable bundles for entity events & support for event settings

With Rules 2.4 events may define an event settings form via an optional event handler class. This might be useful in various scenarious, one of which Rules already implements: It's now possible to restrict entity related events to certain bundles immediately when adding an event. Compared to the previous way of adding a generic entity event plus a separate condition to check the bundle (e.g. "After saving new content" plus "Content is of type" condition) it's way nicer to just select the content type directly while adding the event!

Vielleicht habt Ihr es bemerkt, es hat sich viel getan in letzter Zeit auf drupal.org bzgl. fluxkraft. Wir haben inzwischen alle erstellten Module veröffentlicht und daraus eine Drupal Distribution zusammen geschnürrt.

So schnell kanns gehen: Lange Zeit ging nichts ohne SAAS oder cloud-basierten Anwendungen. Mit den Enthüllungen über PRISM und co scheinen sich die Zeiten zu ändern, jedenfalls scheint man sich endlich wieder vermehrt Gedanken über Datensicherheit zu machen.

After reading our introduction to fluxkraft you will have a general idea about the project. But what are the main goals of the project? What usecases do we think about?

You might have heard some rumors about a tool called "fluxkraft": something like ifttt.com, but with Rules? Or what? Indeed, fluxkraft is one of our latest drunomics lab projects funded by netidee - a Austrian grant for powerful - and open - innovations.