WorkFlow Presentation at Phili

WorkFlowBy Margots Kapacs at DesignsSquare.com

Intro

I am from Latvia currently living in MN

Founded DesignsSquare.com around August, 2013

Started on WorkFlow year ago and turned into Drush Tool in past 3 weeks

Issue & Solution

Issue: Its time consuming building, deploying & configuring themes & widgets in Drupal

Solution: Drush Tool that automates the process of building, deploying and configuring assets for Drupal

About WorkFlow

Drush commands to install, build, deploy and configure

Versions and manages code from github

Provides a way to automate and share common tasks

Start In 2 Steps

1. Install Workflow

https://github.com/makapacs/workflow

2. Grab Workflow Sandbox

https://github.com/makapacs/workflow-sandbox

Note: See docs for help

http://designssquare.com/workflow-docs

Terminology

Assets – the end product(i.e theme, plugin, addon,etc)

Artifact – a module or theme part of the asset

Blueprint – the make file for asset or package

Actions – declarative tasks(i.e config_video, enable_dev,etc)

Package - deliverable to be installed on another site

Demo1. Spin new instance

2. Deploy Theme Espresso

3. Configure Theme Espresso

4. Load Sample Data For Kickstart

5. Deploy & Configure Widget Blog

6. Configure Editor

7. Configure Video

8. Configure Audio

9. Deploy &Configure Widget Portfolio

1 min Drama

Can it be done 1 min?

Profilers

Profiler - takes and combines the process per profile

Issue: Unproductive to type a lot of drush

commands

Solution: Profiler automates the drush commands for each asset

It has its own make file

Map Widget

Develop Widget - Map from scratch

Other

Developers commands

Different way to deliver via blueprint

Deploy in 3 different ways

Summary

WorkFlow automates the process building, developing and configuring widgets and themes

Adds capabilities to manage multiple artifacts at once

Easy to install with sample WorkFlow sandbox

Connect

@designssquare at twitter

makapacs at github.com

email: [email protected]

Personal blog – margotskapacs.com