Drupal/C2/Creating-Dummy-Content/English-timed

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.
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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.

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