Published: Wed, 11/19/14Download this episodeEntity Pilot

• What is Entity Pilot?
  • I’ve been working on Entity Pilot since February, and have slowly been working through my backlog of features - but now its ready for Beta testers so that’s why I here on the show.
• How does Entity Pilot work?
  • The basic premise is you create your content like normal and then create a new departure. You can add the content to your departure in logical groups, or you can create one departure for each piece of content - its a pretty flexible workflow. So if you were working on a new product launch you might create all of that content on your staging site. You’d be able to see what the site will look like with the new content, preview the front-page and landing pages etc.
• You’re using airport terminology, like “baggage”, “departure” and “arrival”. Can you break those down, and explain what each one entails?
  • Passengers
  • Baggage
  • Departure - When you create the departure the baggage handler service takes care of adding the dependencies - so if you create a node, any terms or images it requires, or the author account are automatically added as baggage.
  • Arrival - On another site, you setup your Entity Pilot account and then create a new Arrival. This presents you with the list of your flights that exist in Entity Pilot for your account. After selecting the flight for the arrival, you move to the approval stage.
  • Customs - The approval stage presents you with a list of content on the incoming flight. Each item can be previewed and if it matches existing content on the site the administrator is able to view a diff of the changplanet-drupal the desired items to import are selected and imported either immediately, or via background processing.
• How does this work in a team?
• Talk about security
• Pricing

Use Cases

• For marketing: Prepare content for a product launch on the staging site. Land the content on the live site on launch day.
• For editors: Share content between your sites. Write content once and adapt to any site in your network.
• For developers: Deploy content when you deploy code. Use real content not lorem ipsum. Solid APIs to integrate into your custom deployment workflow or code.

Episode Links: Lee on drupal.orgLee on TwitterEntity Pilot on Twitterlarowlan on IRCEntity PilotTags: Content StagingDrupal 8planet-drupal