Today we are talking about The UI Suite Module, It’s module eco-system, and what’s new in the 2.0 release with guest Pierre Dureau. We’ll also cover Field Formatter Range as our module of the week. Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi
JD Leonard – jdleonard
Topics
- What is UI Suite?
- UI Suite 2.0: Major Updates and Features
- Introduction to UI Suite Recipes
- Challenges with Drupal Themes
- Site Templates and UI Suite
- Component Compatibility and Community Education
- Design System Modules and Best Practices
- Experience Builder and UI Suite Integration
- Modernizing Display Tools
- Introducing the Distributor Tool
- Future of UI Suite and Core Integration
- Getting Involved with UI Suite
Resources
Guests
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/511
Hosts
Pierre Dureau – drupal.org/project/ui_suite pdureau
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to show only a subset of field values on your Drupal entity displays? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Jan 2024 by Florent Torregrosa (Grimreaper), but today’s guest Pierre is also a maintainer
- Versions available: 8.x-1.6
- Maintainership
- Minimally maintained & Maintenance fixes only
- Security coverage
- NO open issues
- Usage stats:
- 1,362 sites
- Module features and usage
- Unlike some competing solutions, this module uses third party settings to work on virtually any formatter for a multivalued field
- As part of the configuration, a site builder can specify the offset (where to start), the number of field values to show, and the order in which to show them.
- The order can be standard or reverse, or it can list them in a random order
- The module page gives the example of an entity with 15 images attached, and being able to show only the first 5. Or maybe only the 5 most recent?
- I think if you combined this module with the Custom Field module module we talked about in episode #505, you could achieve some interesting things with simple configuration. For example, you could have an FAQ page and have the teaser for it show three random answers for it.
