unlcms / unl_person

Creates a unl_people remote entity, which gets its data from directory.unl.edu

unl_person

Creates a unl_people remote entity, which gets its data from directory.unl.edu and itegrates with entityreference autocomplete.

Features

• Add a unl_person entity
• Retrieves unl_person entity data from directory.unl.edu via APIs
• Integrates with entityreference for autocomplete support.

Using Entity Reference

When setting up an entityreference field that uses unl_person, there are a few things to keep in mind.

1. Target Type = UNL Person
2. Entity Selection mode = UNL Person
3. Additional Behavior = check UNL Person behavior

The UNL Person Entity Selection Mode tells entityselection to use our custom selection class instead of the normal sql selection mode. This will query the directory via an API.

The UNL Person behavior will edit the schema of the field to allow the target_id to be varchar.

View Modes

Currently unl_person only supports the teaser view mode.

unl_person's Issues

Add GNU GPLv2 License

This project has no license, which means means persons and organizations with no affiliation to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents have "no permission from the creators of the software to use, modify, or share the software." See https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/ for more information.

This PR seeks to add the GNU GPLv2 license, which is the only open-source license permissible as the project contains derivative work from the Drupal project, which is licensed under GNU GPLv2.

Additional resources:
Drupal Licensing
Themes are GPL, too

Get the Drupal 8 version working

Looks like the plugins/entityreference part is going to be totally different now that ent. ref. is in core. Look at SelectionWithAutocreateInterface