1. Panelize all the Things!

2. Panelize all the Things!
A Talk About Panelizer
Drupal Pittsburgh Meetup
October 14, 2014
David Trainer
Minimal Media
@minimalmedia
minimalmedia.com/presentations/panelizer

3. panelize (pan-l-ahyz)
v., used with object
1. To attach Panels functionality (to a Drupal entity)

4. What Does Panelizer Do? Attach Panels functionality to any entity
Customize available layouts and default content for any entity type

5. What Does Panels Do?
Allows content editors to choose interesting content and easily manipulate it's position within a layout

6. Why is Panels Necessary?
We already have the block system

7. Why is Panels Necessary?
We can move blocks between different regions

8. Why is Panels Necessary?
Each block has a whitelist

9. Why is Panels Necessary?
Much more efficient interface than blocks, even blocks + context, especially for inexperienced users
Block system has a dangerously broad scope
Damage control: Panels confines editors to a node at a time

10. Why is Panels Necessary?
“Panels is a tool for unusually sophisticated and ambitious content editors, who can't be trusted with the keys to the entire block system”

11. Demo
Let's panelize something already

13. Demo You can get all this panels hotness inside of 10 minutes
Without writing any code
Essential modules: ctools, panels, panelizer

14. Demo – Panelize a node Add content type
Why create your own content type for this?
Reusability
You don't have to use the Panel content type, you can panelize your existing content types, and all this panels configuration is exportable!

15. Demo – Panelize a node Add content type
Full page override (you can panelize different view modes)
Leave no default panel
Panelize a single node

16. Demo – Panelize a node Gotcha!
Override node_view with Ctools page manager
“The most common use case [for Page Manager] is to hand over the layout, and rendering of the path, to Panels.”
ts-the-difference-between-page-manager-and-panels

17. Demo – Default Panel
Configure the default layout and content of panelized entities
devel_generate some users & Articles
Change their layout, without writing a template
Editors can still override the default
Your panelized entities can offer multiple configurations to choose from

18. Demo – Views Content Panes
“Like blocks, but smarter”
Add a view content pane to Articles
List all the Articles by that author
View content pane → UID contextual filter
Panel context → Node author relationship
Pane settings → %user:uid and %node:nid tokens

19. More Interesting Panels Layouts
Omega
Write your own

20. What Have we Learned? Panels layout tools are powerful and accessible
Panelizer default panels let you manipulate the layout of many entities all at once
Views content panes are super useful
You can fine-tune control over layout with your own custom Panels layouts

21. Thanks
merlinofchaos
EclipseGc on Page Manager:
Johan Falk: Page Manager + Panels + Views Content Panes integration: manager

22. minimalmedia.com/presentations/panelizer
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