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From YouTube: Backdrop CMS Modules: Layout Contextual Link

Description

This is an experimental module (title shot has wrong name). I did a video to help generate feedback on this module as well as the possibility of getting this feature into Backdrop CMS core.

Now available for testing at: https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/layout_contextual_links

This video also shows how you can quickly add this module to a free DEMO site and BackdropCMS.org for testing.

We look forward to your feedback in the core issue queue:
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/2626

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Hi, my name is tim erickson. I am st paul tim on the internet and I am here on behalf of my company triplo and the site simplo.site to talk about a module called layout, contextual menu, and this is actually an unusual video, because this module is not even in the official contrib space.

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Yet it's very much experimental, but it's solving a problem which I think would be great great to solve in backdrop uh the cms, and so I'm highlighting this module, because I'd love for people to take a look at this feature and give us some feedback on how to improve this, and, let's make background better anyways. This module is currently available in the repo of the maintainer bug. Folder robert and uh robert has done some great work on this. Just in the last week this is coming about.

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uh You can see the last commit was today it's a pretty simple module. The idea for this module is to provide a little contextual menu, we'll talk about what those are for, those who don't know uh to help people figure out which layout their their page is using when they're working with backdrop cms to test this module.

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I am going to go here and I am going to copy the link to the zinc to the zip file file. This is the way I used to install modules on drupal 7 a long time ago, but I haven't done it on backdrop at all, and the next thing I'm going to do is spin up a demo site on bankruptcms.org, and this is just to show you that you can do this and you can install modules like this right on on these demo sites. These demo sites are free and they're temporary.

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They only last up to 24 hours, so I'm going to pause for a second while this loads, okay, that took about 20 30 seconds, and now I'm here I can visit my site and there it is I'm already logged into this site. So, um let's just go back to the home page and the way we would install uh we can install modules on these demo sites that are on backdrop cms.org through the install new modules uh feature. Normally, we could look for any existing contrib module and, for example, backup and migrate.

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We could add to the installation queue. uh I mean we could do that right from here. We wouldn't have had to click on that button, and then we can just go ahead and click install and we can install an existing released, contrib module, oops. Okay. Now I have to enable it anyways just showing you how quick that is. But, however, if we want to install um a module that isn't on bankruptcymust.org listed as an official module, we can go to the manual install process and I think what we want to do is go down here.

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Nope go down here and paste in. Excuse me the url to the zip file. We got from github. uh We can do this because, with this file, we're able to find it on github and then we can hit install boom. This module was installed successfully.

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Let's enable the newly in all.

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Layout, contextual links save so if we go to the home page now, uh for those of you who aren't aware these are our contextual links or contextual menus, we sometimes refer them to them. That take you quickly to things like if you want to edit this view or edit this block or edit this block, so they're scattered around the page.

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Okay, what this module does is. It provides us with a new contextual link which should go up here. This uh link isn't showing right now and I think that's because we need to go to the configuration uh and find the layout, contextual links settings, and I am uh the first time I'm looking at these settings and I think these might change.

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We had a meeting today where we talked about how these could change, but if we go ahead and save configuration, let's go back to the home page and see if that solves the problem it does now. We have a layout homepage, contextual up here.

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Basically, this is telling you what page you're on this is giving you the ability to go directly to that page and manage the blocks here now we can see we're on the default administrative layout, so this is just really nice, no matter what page you're on you can see what which layout you're using you can also jump directly to the manage blocks or the configure layout. For that page, let's go back home.

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Let's try this one again like if it's not clear to you which layout you're using you just go up here, oop layout, I'm using the default layout, and if I want to manage the blocks on the default layout. Oh I love this. I love this module. Thank you, robert anyways. That's really! All there is to this module. um I do want to call your attention to the fact that this module is currently in a private repo.

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It could at any time be released as an official uh module, in which case it would be somewhere in the backdrop control space or you could find it on backdrop, cms.org in the modules, if we'd love, to have your participation in the discussion about this feature and that's happening in github and I've included a link here to that I'll go back to it. But this is the issue that originally started. This work that led to this module so feel free to provide feedback and comments on this module in this issue.

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It's issue 2626, in the backdrop, slash backdrop dash issues, repo, okay, thank you very much. That's it for today.