Talking Drupal #517 - The Event Platform Levels Up

Aug 25, 2025

Martin Anderson-Clutz, a principal solutions engineer at Acquia and the world’s first triple-triple certified expert, joins the discussion to uncover the latest advancements in Drupal's Event Platform. He shares insights into the new multi-event architecture and the innovative Event Horizon theme, highlighting its ties to astrophysics. The conversation dives into community engagement for upcoming features and improvements, while also covering effective data manipulation through the ECA Tamper module. Listeners are encouraged to get involved and explore the evolving landscape of event management in Drupal.

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INSIGHT

Dates Enable Event Workflows

Capturing a few event lifecycle dates enables automating content priorities and workflows.
Workflow automation can show or hide content based on event stages like CFP open, selection, and event day.

ADVICE

Prefer Recipes For Flexible Configuration

Prefer recipes/config actions to place blocks and configure UI per theme rather than hard-coded install hooks.
Use config actions to map blocks per theme and provide fallbacks for other themes.

INSIGHT

Recipe Installer Performance Limits

The recipe runner currently installs modules slower than Drush because it handles config and container resets differently.
Large installs like Event Platform time out with recipes today, limiting direct recipe-based installs.

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Today we are talking about Drupal's Event Platform, What's new, and what's to come with guest Martin Anderson-Clutz. We'll also cover ECA Tamper as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/517

Topics

What is Event Platform
New Features and Multi-Event Architecture
Event Platform Theme: Event Horizon
Managing Contribution Time
Event Platform Workflow Features
Transitioning to Recipes
Module Installation Challenges in Drupal
Event Platform Installation and Configuration
Performance Improvements and Core Installer Issues
Modular Design and Recipe Mapping
Content Migration and Recipe Utilization
Event Platform Adoption and Community Feedback
Future Features and Enhancements for Event Platform
Getting Started with Event Platform
How to Get Involved with Event Platform

Resources

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi James Sansbury - tugboatqa.com q0rban

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted a flexible way to manipulate the data being used in your ECA models? There's a module for that
Module name/project name:
- ECA Tamper
Brief history
- How old: created in Apr 2022 by Jürgen Haas of Lake Drops
- Versions available: 1.0.6 and 2.0.4, the latter of which supports Drupal 10.4 and 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
Number of open issues: 6 open issues, none of which are bugs
Usage stats:
- 1,087 sites
Module features and usage
- For anyone who hasn't used it before, Tamper is a generic plugin system for transforming data. It's often used with migrations and Feeds, where you need to make sure incoming data matches the data type of the field where it will be stored. We actually covered Feeds Tamper as MOTW all the way back in episode #056
- For ECA you can use tamper plugins with conditions, so a model can compare against a modified result. Or, you can use the tamper plugins with actions, storing the result as a token that can be for subsequent actions.
- I ended up using ECA Tamper in the Event Platform for a model that sends out emails if an accepted session has not yet been confirmed by the author, and the session confirmation is a specific number of days out, for example 3 days away and one day away