{"id":2384,"date":"2014-04-18T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2014-04-18T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:13:16","slug":"configuring-and-using-osf-fieldstorage-screencast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/18\/configuring-and-using-osf-fieldstorage-screencast\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring and Using OSF FieldStorage (Screencast)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This screencast introduces you to another one of the most important OSF for Drupal<\/code><\/a> connector: the OSF FieldStorage module<\/a>. What this module does is to create a new FieldStorage<\/code> type for Drupal7. It enables Drupal7 to save the values of its Content Types<\/code> fields into another storage system than the default one (i.e MySQL in most of the cases).<\/p>\n

Because of the way that the Field<\/code> system has been designed in Drupal7<\/code>, it is possible to save the values of different fields that compose the same Content Type<\/code> bundle into different field storage system. For example, if your Content Type bundle<\/code> is composed of 10 fields, then 4 of them could be saved into MySQL and 6 of them into OSF<\/code>.<\/p>\n

The main purpose of the OSF FieldStorage module is to be able to save Drupal local Content Type<\/code> information into OSF. What that means is that all your Drupal7 local content then become accessible, manageable and manipulatable using the 27 Open Semantic Framework (OSF)<\/a> web services endpoints. Your local Drupal content can then be shared with other Drupal instances that could use OSF for Drupal<\/code> to connect to that same OSF instance and seamlessly republish\/re-purpose that local content from the other Drupal portal.<\/p>\n

Here is the documentation<\/a> of the architecture of this connector module.<\/p>\n

This is the power of the OSF FieldStorage connector module. It supports the following Drupal features:<\/p>\n

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  1. Full FieldStorage API<\/li>\n
  2. Entities caching<\/li>\n
  3. Revisioning<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. SearchAPI<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. 29 field widgets<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Export feature in 6 formats<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In this screencast, you will be introduced to Drupal7’s Field system. Then you will see how the OSF FieldStorage module creates a new FieldStorage type for Drupal7 and how it can be used. Then you will see how to configure the OSF FieldStorage module: to creating new Content Type fields that uses this osf_fieldstorage<\/code> type, how to map these fields to RDF<\/code>, how to use one of the 29 supported field widgets, etc.<\/p>\n

    Finally, you will see how you can synchronize existing<\/strong> Content Type pages (that was created before OSF for Drupal<\/code> was installed on your Drupal instance) into a OSF instance.<\/p>\n

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