This session details the future roadmap for ECA, aiming to broaden its accessibility and impact within the Drupal community by making it usable for all users, regardless of technical expertise, and expanding its capabilities beyond just developers and site builders. The session outlines the progress made and the plans for the next generation of this popular Drupal workflow automation tool.

Prerequisite

I am interested in Drupal's future and have ideas on how it can be improved by providing the best tools to generate new business opportunities.

Target Audience

This session is for developers, site builders, project managers, and management alike.

Outline

ECA (the Event, Condition, Action module) for modern Drupal has established itself as the go-to tool for automating Drupal workflows with a no-code/low-code approach. After several years in production and with the benefit of experience and feedback from hundreds of power users, the time has come to plan and execute the future of ECA and make an even bigger difference for Drupal and all its users.

ECA's future vision is to accomplish the following goals:

1. Currently, ECA is used by only 1% of Drupal users; the next generation of ECA will be suitable for all Drupal users, including those with little or no experience of the platform.
2. Getting started with ECA currently requires users to have a basic understanding of Drupal and its workflow. The next-generation ECA will be intuitive for all users, enabling them to achieve success with ECA in minutes.
3. The next-generation ECA will guide users, helping them to elevate their skills and achieve more as they progress.
4. Personas: currently, ECA caters for developers, site builders and project managers. This will be extended to enable all users to build their own workflows and automations.

This session will outline how the maintainers and the Drupal community are planning to achieve these goals and how much progress has been made so far.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, attendees will be able to articulate how ECA is unlocking significantly larger business opportunities for Drupal and identify ways to actively contribute to the ambitious goals of the next generation of the ECA module.

Experience level
Anyone