Last December I wrote up 24 specific things we’ve automated on Drupal, and published them as an Advent Calender — one little nugget each day. I’m finally taking the time to summarize and categorize those, to give you a few ideas for things you might want to do on your site!Because Drupal provides a base Entity system that most modules use, ECA can automate things like Commerce orders or registrations, even without those modules adding explicit support for ECA.
Your Drupal site as an automation engine, with Events, Conditions, and Actions (ECA)
So here are some automations in Drupal that we have actually used. A few came from modules that do some specific task, but most are ECA. And a couple are even using AI.Content management is the core of what Drupal does. And content management gets complex, especially when you have many editors or a lot of it. Here are some ways we’ve streamlined publishing or editing content:Because Drupal provides a structure for your information, that means you can apply rules to do things automatically. ECA has become the most powerful rules engine for Drupal, with thousands of actions available, and a broad ecosystem of what it works with.
Automations for content editors
Drupal is a fantastic platform for automating things. In addition to hundreds of single-purpose modules, we now have two major general purpose modules that transform Drupal from a mere CMS (content management system) to an automation powerhouse. The modules? ECA, and the AI module.
