External Entities

This module allows you to connect to datasets from external databases and use it in your Drupal 8 website. While content lives external, Drupal sees those remote entities as internal. This makes it possible to alter the field displays, add references, comments, path aliases, share buttons, webshop products and more.

External documentation

How to COPE with External Entities video recording of session Adriaan Buiteman at Drupal Europe, September 2018

Architecture

Overview of external entities

Storage client

Storage client to set up the entity bridge to an external source

Mapping fields

Mapping field data of the external source to Drupal fields

Annotations

Adding locally stored information to an external entity

Views

Using external entities in views

Example 1: Wikipedia

Using external entities to display a Wikipedia page

Example 2: Rijksmuseum

Using external entities to display a Rijksmuseum artwork

External Entities plugins

Provides a list of available plugins for "external entities" module and their review.

Guide maintainers

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