DrupalCon Vienna 2017: Making content editors happy in Drupal 8 with Entity Browser
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 2017-09-28

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bYMoXh7GewL0nzglOH1lZ6vxzj1NFiO9fk-WaVEwOa4/edit#slide=id.p



Have you ever wanted a standardized, flexible and pluggable solution for creating sites that allow:



Uploading multiple images / files at once
Selecting and re-using an image / file already present on the server
Using an arbitrary view as Media gallery or Content gallery for your editors
Creating related content without having to exit the main content form
Etc.


Entity Browser is a Drupal 8 contrib module that was created to solve these common needs in a generic and flexible architecture. While this allows for powerful tools and workflows to be implemented, the price is often an increased learning curve about how to properly configure and fine-tune it for the different use cases.

In this session we will:

Explain the basic architecture of the module, and how to take advantage of its plugin-based approach to extend and customize it.
See how to configure it from scratch to solve different use-cases, including some pitfalls that often occur on that process.
Check what we can copy or re-use from other contrib modules.
Explore some possible integrations with other parts of the Media ecosystem.


Although not mandatory, the audience of this session is expected to have basic site-building experience with Drupal 8, allowing them to follow along the demos and configuration steps more easily.