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What is Drupal CMS
Are we ready for the release
Drupal 7
What can people expect
Will there be a launch button
If someone uses the one click install how will they know what to do next
What new features are there
If someone tries the trial how do they get that site on a host
When will Experience builder be out
Are any vendors going to provide Drupal CMS as a service
What is on the roadmap
How can people get involved

Resources

Starshot initiative

Guests

Matthew Grasmick - grasmash

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston - scott-weston

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have one or more fallbacks within your Drupal tokens? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Token OR
Brief history
- How old: created in May 2018 by Daniel Beeke (danielbeeke) of the Netherlands
- Versions available: 2.3.0
Maintainership
- Actively maintained, current release appx 2 mo old
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch
Usage stats:
- 2,369 sites
Module features and usage
- After installing this module, your tokens can contain pipe-separated values, including a quote-enclosed literal string, and the token will return the first token or string that is not empty.
- This allows your tokens to have fallback values. For example you could have a token grab an event’s start date, or show “TBD” if the field is empty.
- The project page doesn’t explicitly say that a single token can have more than two token reference or string values, but it seems implied. If true, that would mean you could define a token that would grab from one field, look in a different field if the first one is empty, and return a string if neither field has a value.
- Because Token OR uses pipe characters to delineate between values, the module currently doesn’t support pipe characters within string values. This is one of the open issues, but there is a patch available.
- Previous guest host Josh Mitchell mentioned that he had never heard of this module until he noticed it is in the codebase for Drupal CMS, so I thought it would be ideal to talk about on this show, as an example of some lesser-known best practices that you’ll get out of the box when you start building sites on Drupal CMS.

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