A short introduction to Page Manager and Panels. What is Pagemanager? How can we use panels to improve the Drupal core Block System. Explain some basic principles about variants, contexts, selection rules, and handlers. Demo with Panopoly, and hands on with an exercise

1. Page Manager
Panels
Steven
Van den Hout

2. Drupal Developer @ Calibrate
@stevenvdhout
@calibrators
Steven Van den Hout

3. Page Manager
(start) pages
URL

4. Panels
Block Improvements
Layouts

5. Core Blocks
Hard to Manage
No Context
Performance Issue

6. Hard To Manage

7. No Context

8. No Context

9. Performance Issue
Every block is loaded on page load
Disabled blocks as well

10. Panopoly
Powerfull base Distribution of
Drupal powered by lots of Chaos
Tools and Panels magic

11. DEMOTIME

12. THEORY

13. Theory
Context
Variants
Selection Rules
Handlers

14. Context
Node/%node/view
USER/%user/view
CURRENT USER
LANGUAGE
…

15. Variants
Content Type
User Role
Language
…

16. Selection Rules
Use this variant only for
nodes of type Page
Administrators
ALL/Only one criteria must pass

17. HAndlers
HTTP Response Code
Panels
Context Admin

18. HTTP Response code
403 Access Denied
404 Page not Found
410 Gone
301 Redirect

19. Page Manager
Context
Variants
Selection Rules
Handlers

20. Hands ON

21. Contrib
Fieldable Panel Panes
Context Admin
Panelizer
Panels Breadcrumbs

22. Resources
Videos nodeone

23. Questions

24. FInish