In this episode of Talking Drupal, we dive into the Contact Form Initiative with special guest Jay Hogue. We explore the ins and outs of the initiative, including its significance for Drupal, the challenges faced, and the decisions made. Jay, with over 20 years of experience in design and user experience, shares his insights on making the contact form accessible and user-friendly for non-technical users. We also touch on the exciting potential of future enhancements and the influence of Experience Builder on the initiative. Additionally, we discuss the 'Local Tasks More' module with Jacob Rockowitz, which aims to simplify the user interface by managing task visibility. Tune in to learn more about these crucial developments in the Drupal community!
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direct LinkTopics
- What is the Contact Form initiative
- What makes up the contact form recipe
- Why did you want to run this initiative
- What are the responsibilities of an initiative lead
- Were there any unexpected speed bumps
- Who was involved
- As a non-backend developer, any hesitation to lead this effort
- What was onboarding like
- What was the timeline
- Any tips for others thinking of leading an initiative
Module of the Week
- Brief description:
- Nodes can have too many local tasks. Only the first few, like View, Edit, Layout, Revisions, and Translate, are used daily. Would like to hide or reorder less commonly used local tasks, which include Usage, Clone, Devel, and Convert. There is a module for that
- Local Tasks More (local_tasks_more)
- Brief history
- How old: created on November 6th, 2024
- Versions available: 1.0.0-beta2 r
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- No security coverage
- Has test coverage
- Does not require much documentation
- No issues
- Usage stats:
- 22 sites
- Maintainer(s):
- jrockowitz (me)
- Module features and usage
- Enter the base routes that support the show more/less task link and alterations.
- Enter the local task id and the altered title and weight. Set the local tasks to FALSE to remove it.
- Enter the number of links to trigger show more/less tasks link/icon from primary and secondary tasks (aka tabs).