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Switch from Google Maps to Leaflet and OpenStreetMap with Geolocation on Drupal 8

24/05/2018

May 2, 2018 Google has announced a major policy change regarding the use of its online services, including its popular mapping service Google Maps and all its associated APIs, to embed or generate location-based information. This policy change now pays for a service that was previously available for free under some relatively generous quota limits starting June 11, 2018. Please read this post for full details on this policy change and its implications.

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Working with the Drupal Commerce 2 checkout flows

04/04/2018

Drupal Commerce 2 allows to define out of the box multiple checkout flows, allowing to customize according to the order, the product purchased, the customer profile this buying process and modify it accordingly. This is an extremely interesting feature, in that it can simplify as much as necessary this famous checkout flows. Do you sell physical (and therefore with associated delivery) and digital (without delivery) products? In a few clicks you can have two separate checkout flows that will take into account these specificities.

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Send transactional emails related to user account in HTML format with Drupal 8

08/03/2018
We have several solutions to automatically send emails emitted by a Drupal 8 project in HTML format. Without being able to quote them all, we can use SwiftMailer, MimeMail to send mails from the server itself, or Mailjet API, MailGun, etc. to send emails from a third-party platform. In a few clicks, we can then emit different emails, whether they are transactional (account creation, order creation, subscription, etc.) or business (Newsletters, Activity Log, What you missed, etc. .), in HTML format. It will then remain to implement one (or more) responsive email template that will be correctly read and interpreted on most mail software. And it's probably the most important part. There remains a special case: that of all the emails emitted according to the different events related to the life of a user account (Creation, Waiting for approval, Deletion, Welcome Mail, etc.). Let's see how to simply send this emails in a HTML format too.
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Customize the order's activity log with Drupal Commerce 2

14/02/2018
By default, Drupal Commerce 2 provides an activity log on the life of each order: the add to cart event, the checkout entry, the order placed, its possible shipment and its conclusion. Each status of the command corresponds to an entry in a log that is generated. This provides a complete history for each order. This activity log is generated by a small module, developed by the maintainers of Drupal Commerce 2. A small but extremely powerful module, titled Commerce log. Let's discover how to use this module to insert additional log entries.
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Prevent access to untranslated pages with Drupal 8

01/02/2018

It is not uncommon when a multilingual Drupal 8 project is implemented, that the pages translations are not ready at the time of production. If making a Drupal 8 multilingual site has become really easy to implement, there is now a fundamental difference with Drupal 7: it is impossible to disable a language. Either install a language, or delete it. This change is assumed, and voluntary, so as to not generate unnecessary complexity for questionable gain.

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Apply a VAT rate on a product with Drupal Commerce 2

13/12/2017

Drupal Commerce 2 now allows you to manage the various taxes and VAT to apply to an online store, regardless of its country and their respective rules in this area. Most of the contributed modules managing these elements on Commerce 1.x are therefore no longer necessary. Let's find out how to use the Drupal Commerce 2.x Resolver concept to set the VAT rate to apply to different products.

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Set up workflows with State machine on Drupal 8

30/11/2017
We saw in a previous post how to set up a publishing process on Drupal 8 with the modules Content moderation and Workflows. We will address here a similar problematic but relying this time on the module State machine, module that will allow us to set up one or more business workflow on any Drupal entity. Note that the state machine module is one of the essential components of Drupal Commerce 2.x. Let's take a closer look at how state machines work.
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Change configuration directly on a Drupal 8 production site

16/11/2017
Managing native configuration with Drupal 8 makes it very easy to make changes or additions to the configuration from a site instance (such as a development environment) to another site instance (the production environment). These configuration exports and imports of a site are made in one piece: that is, the entire configuration of a site, which is updated. Thus if configuration additions have been made to the production site, they will be overwritten at the next import of the configuration if these configurations are not present also on the source environment. But there are valid use cases where certain configurations can and must be modified directly in production. Examples of immediate use are, for example, the creation of new Webform forms, or the creation or update of new Newsletters managed with the SimpleNews module. It is quite legitimate for a webmaster to modify or create new NewsLetters on the production site. It's almost like content, except that ... it's a configuration entity. Let's discover how to manage these particular cases with the module Configuration split, module that will allow us to maintain an organized process to manage the evolution and maintenance of a site in production while allowing the modification of some configurations live.
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Change the position of the meta data panel on the node form with Drupal 8

08/11/2017
Content metadata (menu settings, publishing options, url path settings, and so on) are by default displayed on the node form in a side panel. This has the advantage of giving immediate visibility on these options while writing its content. But there are use cases where the lateral position of these informations is detrimental to the general ergonomics, because reducing the space available for the content form. This can be the case, for example, if you use the Field Group module to structure and group the information you need to enter. No need here for a Drupal expert. Let's find out how we can make the position of these metadata customizable according to the needs and general ergonomics of the Drupal 8 project.