Drupal/C2/Creating-Dummy-Content/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Creating Dummy Content. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn to create dummy content using devel module. |
| 00:12 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
Ubuntu Operating System Drupal 8 and Firefox web browser. You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
| 00:25 | One of the things we need when we are building our Drupal site is to have a lot of content. This will help us to understand layouts, views and designs. |
| 00:36 | But ideally, we shouldn’t use real content. Say, we need to change a Content type, or a field. |
| 00:44 | The problem is we have to go in and edit the real content which is a waste of time. |
| 00:50 | But this step is very important. We need to test our content types to make sure they are working what we want. |
| 00:57 | We have only covered a few kinds of fields till now. |
| 01:01 | Here is our Cincinnati node. Let’s say the Cincinnati group wants to charge a fee for their meetings |
| 01:07 | and they want to put this on the site. |
| 01:10 | We can use a decimal for money or an integer which is a whole number. |
| 01:15 | Say, you chose an integer because they only charged 10 dollars. But later on, they decided to charge 10.99 dollars. |
| 01:24 | Then, we are in trouble. |
| 01:26 | An integer cannot be changed into a decimal, especially after we have already added content. |
| 01:32 | And so, these are the things that need to be planned out beforehand. |
| 01:37 | We can test all of this by using some fake content. These can be easily inserted and easily deleted, when we are done with our testing. |
| 01:48 | Remember this - we don’t need hundreds of real contents but only a few fake contents. |
| 01:54 | The solution to this problem is the Devel module. Go to drupal.org/project/devel. |
| 02:02 | Till now, we haven’t actually talked about Modules or extended our Drupal website yet. We will do that in the upcoming tutorials. |
| 02:11 | But here, we will learn to install Devel Module and use it. This will give us an idea of some of the power that Drupal Modules can give us. |
| 02:21 | Scroll down to the bottom and locate the Download section. This screen might look very different for you. |
| 02:28 | Drupal 8 dot x version could be up in the green region. So, make sure you click that one. |
| 02:34 | If not, then click the Development releases. |
| 02:38 | Now, there are two ways to do this. We can download it, but that will give us many unnecessary files on our desktop. |
| 02:44 | Or, we can right-click. And depending on our browser, we will see either Copy Link or Copy Link Location. |
| 02:53 | Either way, click the link to the .tar file or the .zip file. But don’t click on this dev file, because that won’t work. |
| 03:01 | These are the links to the actual files. |
| 03:04 | Once we have got that, come back to our site. Click on Extend and then on Install new module. |
| 03:11 | Now, paste the URL into the Install from a URL field. If you have a good internet connection, you can install from the URL. |
| 03:22 | Otherwise, for your convenience, the devel package has been provided in the Code Files link on this page. |
| 03:31 | Please download it and upload it using the Choose File option here. Lastly, click Install. |
| 03:41 | Now, click on Enable newly added modules. |
| 03:45 | Click on the word CORE to minimize it. Then scroll down. |
| 03:50 | Under the DEVELOPMENT block, we can see Devel and Devel generate. Ignore the others, for now. |
| 03:57 | Put a check-mark in Devel and Devel generate. Then, scroll down to the bottom and click Install. |
| 04:05 | Remember that in Drupal, we always have to make sure that we click on Save, Install etc. |
| 04:12 | We should get a green message here –"2 modules have been enabled". |
| 04:17 | Don’t worry if you see any caution message in red color, as long as it’s not a serious error. |
| 04:23 | To generate a whole bunch of content, click on Configuration. Then on the left hand side, we will see Generate content link. Click on that. |
| 04:34 | Now, we will be able to generate as much content as we want, to do the required testing. |
| 04:41 | We will choose Events and User Groups because these are the 2 Content types that we need to test. |
| 04:47 | Notice here, there is a "Delete all content in these content types before generating new content". This is to delete the fake content. |
| 04:56 | Let’s put a check mark there and generate 0 (zero) nodes. This will delete all the Events and User Groups. |
| 05:05 | This will also include the ones that we created ourselves. For example - our Cincinnati User Group would also be gone if we did this. |
| 05:15 | So, let’s uncheck that. Let’s generate 50 nodes. |
| 05:20 | Go back a year. |
| 05:22 | We don’t have comments on our nodes. |
| 05:25 | Change the Maximum number of words in titles to 2. If you don’t do that, this will generate a lot of long Lorem Ipsum text. |
| 05:35 | Click Generate. Immediately, we get a success message. To find out if it worked, click on Content. |
| 05:44 | Here’s a list of 50 new nodes - half Events and half User groups. |
| 05:50 | Click on any one and we will see that Devel has generated - a lot of text in Description, an Event Logo, |
| 05:57 | a fake Event Website, a Date, has chosen one of the User Groups as Sponsor and has selected some of the Event Topics. |
| 06:08 | We can now do our layouts, our views and all the other things that we need to do with our site. |
| 06:15 | Devel has helped us to save a lot of time by generating fake content. |
| 06:20 | This is a great feature of Drupal, provided from a Module, downloaded at drupal.org. These are called Contributed Modules. We will learn about this later. |
| 06:32 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. |
| 06:35 | Let us summarize. In this tutorial we have learnt about creating dummy contents using devel module. |
| 06:48 | This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay. |
| 06:57 | The video at this link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it. |
| 07:03 | The Spoken Tutorial Project team conducts workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us. |
| 07:11 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NVLI, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. |
| 07:23 | This is Varsha Venkatesh, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
