I am trying to figure out the best way to go and I came across these options and wanted to see if they are incorporated into Panopoly.

From a feature set perspective are there major differences?

Thanks

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Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

This is too hard for populist to answer, he will have install all these projects and spend forever analyzing the heck out of them, you could do this yourself and report back.

I'm trying to get this distro installed so I can take a poke around and report back myself, right now its broken with Solr and an issue with Views seems to be borking the install, when its more stable and I can get it installed I'll give it a whirl.

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Argus commented

Jeff they have it available on Pantheon as a ready made distro, if you start up a new site it's right there waiting for ya. :)

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frankcarey commented

FYI: From what I see in the version on pantheon, it doesn't use AT or panels everywhere at all.

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socialnicheguru commented

Hi. My intention was just to start a discussion and to see if there is overlap.

I just wanted to better understand panoply in relation to the other modules.

In reading the descriptions I was wondering if there is overlap?

From reading and installing, I find the following:

Panopoly uses panelizer and display suite (DS).
From what I can gather, panelizer allows entities to be paneled also.
DS is used to allow for panel layouts without context.
I like the on node edit feature. I am not sure if that is provided by the panels submodule, edit-in-place.

Panels everywhere makes panels the main layout engine I think.

Panels section allows the content variable to be paneled. This sounds much like DS.

I am interested in building business rules through panels context that control features and layout.

I see this and other solutions and wanted better minds than mine to comment.

Thanks!

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Thanks Argus, I jumped all over that and have my Pantheon account and Panopoly running etc.

SocialNicheGuru, I think you're pretty on the money with your run down, DS includes many of its own layouts as well. I can only really comment on my theme (Adaptivetheme), and it really depends on what you require, its pretty vast thing to cover. All these projects include layout plugins, even my theme is totally driven by layout plugins - both panels plugins and its own "page_layout" plugins, although these are not CTools plugins, Adaptivetheme has its own plugin system due to the fact that themes cannot require dependencies and I don't want to blow up my users sites. Also Adaptivetheme puts its panels plugins on steroids and includes more in the data structure, for use in pluggable layout system - mainly for building forms and generating the actual CSS used to set the layout at each breakpoint (its all responsive and configurable via a UI).

Maybe its better if you try to ask a really really specific question, maybe you are not at that point yet, but this really hard discussion because the scope is very wide indeed.

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populist commented

I agree with Jeff that it might be better to ask a specific question about functionality, but I think the most important thing to understand about Panopoly is that it is most focused on controlling the $content variable that gets pushed out in the theme. It does *not* make any assumptions about the theme you are running and would presumably be compatibile with a wide variety of themes.

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populist commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I am also going to mark this as fixed, but feel free to chat back around this.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.