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Framework for creating, managing and exposing drawings
The module is developed as part of the VisualN Project.
Drawing
A drawing is any piece of html markup with possibly attached scripts and styles that represents a logical and self-contained entity (unit) and build around some idea or purpose.
A drawing can be a chart, image gallery, simple image, list of products, web app, an embedded video etc. Basically anything, any structured markup can be a drawing.
A drawing is generally a result of drawer processing.
Drawer
A plugin with possibly styles and scripts that is used to create a drawing based on some data set or without data at all, can be configured using configuration form if provided by drawer.
Drawer generally knows nothing about data source and its mechanics.
Drawers can easily be created and used anywhere and for any purpose: to create drawings based on data from views, uploaded files, remote or local resources, even generated data. They can be both client-side and server-side independently of data source. This is achieved by adapters.
Adapter
A plugin which translates a resource of a given type into a more generic one, which is expected by drawer. Users generally have nothing to do with adapters, they are used seamlessly internally.
Compatibility layer and the UI
Module provides UIs for all common Drupal content configuration layers: views, fields and blocks. For example, from UI user can choose a drawer to be used with a custom view. This is done using Views Display style configuration form. For fields, field widgets and formatters are used. For blocks, drawings are configured via block configuration form.
All that allows to create drawings without coding.
The framework provides many useful features for every drawer created out of the box:
- embed drawings into content using CKEditor (VisualN Embed), watch screencast
- embed into generic content using tokens (VisualN Token, also requires Token Filter module) read article
Related projects
VisualN Excel
VisualN Libraries
Installation instructions
Check Installation guide for instructions
API documentation
External API documentation is available at https://api.visualn.org/api/visualn
Known D8 core issues:
- #3002478: Allow ckeditor to support multiple dialog afterclose callbacks
- #2984438: Rergression intorduced for views exposed raw input values for multivalue filter field
- #2925598: Pager pagination and table sorting not updated after user change, ajax enabled
- #1100170: Checkboxes default value is ignored by forms system during processing of AJAX request
Supporting organizations:
development and maintenance
Project information
- Project categories: User engagement, Developer tools, Media
- Created by kpv on , updated
This project is not covered by the security advisory policy.
Use at your own risk! It may have publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
