About me

Usability group, Migration subsystem, Security team

Follow along

• https://slides.benjifisher.info/ (GitLab Pages)

Status 2025-03-10

• Discussions at Florida Drupal Camp 2025-02-03
• Discussions in Slack (#eca, #migration, …)
• BoF scheduled for DrupalCon Atlanta
• That’s All, Folks!

Import CSV Recipe

https://www.drupal.org/project/import_csv

Import from CSV files:

• Users
• Taxonomy Terms
• Nodes

Built on

• Migrate Plus
• Migrate Source CSV
• Migrate Source UI

How It Works

1. With Migrate Plus, migrations are defined by config entities migrate_plus.migration.*.
2. A recipe can install configuration.

Screenshot

The Missing Piece

How can the Ambitious Site Builder

• Create a new migration
• Tweak an existing migration

Config Export/Import (1 of 2)

Config Export/Import (2 of 2)

Migrate AI

Show me your Drupal 7 database and I will create migrations for you

– Migrate AI module (vaporware)

Better than one-click AI migration:

• Use AI to parse the data.
• Create migrations (structured data).
• Audit and tweak them.
• Migrate the site.
• Iterate.

The Missing Piece (again)

How can the Ambitious Site Builder

• Inspect the migrations
• Tweak the migrations

The ECA Module

Try the ECA module. It is like Rules, but better!

– @jurgenhaas

We love it!

– Just about everyone

ECA: Back End

• Events (Symfony)
  • Node created
  • User logged in
• Conditions (ECA)
• Actions (Drupal)
  • Publish/Unpublish
  • Assign a user role

ECA: Front End

Source: https://ecaguide.org/resources/tutorials/mherchel-2

Other uses

Why can’t we have nice things?

– Migrate API maintainers

AI modules (citation needed)

An Innocent Question

The eca_ui module, along with bpmn_io, creates a config entity for eca, right? (And also a file that BPMN.io can read.)

How hard would it be to write a similar module for another config entity type?

– @benjifisher, #eca Slack channel 2025-02-22

Wanted: The Modeler API module

• “How hard …?” Answer: harder than I had hoped
• Bad news: Making it easy requires
  • restructuring the ECA module
  • creating the new Modeler API module.
• Good news: @jurgenhaas is on board.

Modeler API module (plan)

– @jurgenhaas, #eca Slack channel 2025-03-08

Modeler API module (BoF)

What ECA has demonstrated successfully in combination with bpmn_io should be opened up for other modules like Migrate, AI Agents, or others to also leverage modeler UIs like bpmn_io or others to do similar things without having to have parallel and similar implementations. Can we do that once and for all?

– https://events.drupal.org/atlanta2025/bofs/all

Be Careful What You Wish For

Am I tempting the Fates if I utter the phrase “next gen Views UI”?

– @benjifisher, #drupal-cms-development Slack channel 2025-03-08

I would certainly recommend against awakening the Ancient Ones by uttering such a thing

– @phenaproxima, reply

References

• Benji’s slide decks: https://slides.benjifisher.info/
• Import CSV Recipe: https://www.drupal.org/project/import_csv
• ECA module: https://www.drupal.org/project/eca
• ECA User guide: https://ecaguide.org/
• BoF Schedule: https://events.drupal.org/atlanta2025/bofs/all
• Modeler API module: https://www.drupal.org/project/modeler_api (404)

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Based on a work at https://gitlab.com/benjifisher/slide-decks.