1. Bumbling through integration
with Entity Forms

2. What is an entity form?
• A collection of entities presented as a form
• Can re-use existing fields

3. Why Entity Forms?
• Integrates with Drupal in ways other forms
cannot reach
– Features, Rules and Views integration
• Loosely coupled
• Don’t need to rewrite Rules engine

4. Problems
– Large amount of fields if you have large forms and
/ or a lot of them
– Embedding it in Content Types can cause issues
with double titles – solve with Context.
– Issues with featurising large forms and field sets
– Conditional fields did not work

5. Integration
• SugarCRM
– Wrote our own integration module
• Google Forms
– Extended Droogle module to cope with
Spreadsheets via Zend Gdata
• Email
– Use Rules and Drupal’s internal mail to contact our
Service Desk

6. References
• Modules
– Entityform http://drupal.org/project/entityform
– Droogle http://drupal.org/project/Droogle
• Book
– The Tiny Book of Rules, Johan Falk, Wolfgang
Ziegler, Leander Lindahl
http://archive.org/details/TheTinydrupalBookOfR
ules

7. Given to the Oxford Drupal Group
(groups.drupal.org/oxford)
by Iain Emsley
Twitter: iainemsley
Blog: www.austgate.co.uk
d.o.: iaine