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The token module is one of these essential modules on any Drupal 8 project. It allows you to use tokens in certain input fields, whether configuration or content, to target the value of one entity field. Many modules use it to allow users or site builder to provide dynamic value without the need for coding.

Let's see how to access the content's values from these tokens, but also to the values ​​indirectly associated with these contents, from Entity reference fields.

Drupal 8 has several solutions and methods to manage access rights on each elements included in a content, and this in a very granular way. Enabling view or edit access on some field included in a content type can be achieved very simply, with a few lines of code, or with the Field Permissions module. We can use this module to allow certain roles to view or update a particular field.

Drupal 8 makes it possible to carry out certain mass actions on the site's contents, such as publishing or unpublishing massively contents, positioning them at the top of lists, etc. It may be useful to provide to certain user profiles some customized actions related to the specificities of their site, such as highlighting certain taxonomy terms, changing the value of a specific field, and thus avoiding heavy and tedious update operations to users on each of the content to be modified.

Drupal 8 has a new core module, the Tour module, which allows us to set up a contextual help to guide users of a Drupal 8 site for their first steps on it, whether for the discovery of their user profile, the possibilities offered to them, how to create content or the overall management of the site's contents.

We saw in a previous post how we could automatically generate the image styles defined on a site for each uploaded source image. We will continue this post for this time to carry out the same operation using the Cron API of Drupal 8, which allows us to desynchronize these mass operations from actions carried out by users, and which can therefore penalize performances.

Drupal 8 allows you to generate image styles for various effects (reduction, cut-out, black-and-white, saturation, etc.) for each uploaded image. You can very quickly have many images styles, and even more if you use responsive images, allowing to propose different dimensions according to the terminal used to consult your website.

The Paragraphs module is a very good alternative to a WYSIWYG editor for those who wants to allow Drupal users ans editors to make arrangements of complex pages, combining text, images, video, audio, quote, statement blocks, or any other advanced component.

Drupal 8, natively multilingual, offers a GUI to be able to translate both the site configuration (field's label, view's title, etc.) and the contents themselves. But we sometimes need to translate programmatically contents  or configurations, particularly in the context of a website factory to generate such a multilingual site.

Discover some examples to help us translate on the fly both configurations and contents. The examples below assume that we have an original content in French and that we wish to associate their English translation.