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In this post I will show a custom process plugin that I created to migrate taxonomy terms. The plugin handles the creation of new terms and prevents duplicates.

Below is a portion of the migration template. In the example, I am migrating new terms into keywords vocabulary via field_keywords field.

field_keywords: - plugin: existing_term # Destination (Drupal) vocabulary name vocabulary: keywords # Source query should return term name source: term_name - plugin: skip_on_empty method: row

This is the source code for the process plugin.

Celebrating the 8.x-1.0 release of our configuration management helper modules.

One year ago we released the first public version of Config Split with the goal to simplify working with Drupal cores configuration management. The main motivation was to find a solution for having development modules in local environments and avoiding to deploy their configuration. To achieve this in the cleanest way possible we decided to interact with Drupal only during the configuration import and export operations by altering what is read from and written to the \Drupal\Core\Config\StorageInterface.

We quickly realized that this is a powerful way to interact with how Drupal sees the configuration to import and so we split off the code that does the heavy lifting into its own module and now Config Ignore and Config Role Split use the same mechanism to do their thing.

Config Split now has documentation pages you are welcome to contribute to and there will be a session at DrupalCon in Vienna in which I will show how it can be used to manage a sites configuration in interesting ways.

If you were an early adopter (pre beta3) but have not updated to a recent version, you will need to install Config Filter first or patch core. The workaround and legacy code has now been removed and the current code is going to be backwards compatible in the future. So if you use the APC class loader, make sure to clear the apc/apcu cache or you might get an error after updating.

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Ryan Price and Mike Anello discuss the pros and cons of the Paragraphs module, including using it for layout and/or information architecture. Ryan takes the discussion in unexpected directions by bringing up Pattern Lab as a prototyping tool and his mysterious "Ace in the Hole" (which Mike feels is more like a Jack of spades). In addition, there's some discussion about a new-ish feature in the Migrate Plus module that is sure to make migration developers happy.

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Back in June some of our crew attended Dinosaur JS conference in Denver, CO.

There were talks ranging from V8’s JS optimization (even had some assembly language slides in there) to demonstrating the creation of an homage to an abstract artist with JavaScript code.

This all got me thinking about TypeScript, Closure compiler, etc... and JS performance and development in general. But I have to admit, I was struggling to see how these technologies could benefit us in Drupal since most of our JS is done in Drupal.behaviors.
 

Building web services with Drupal 7

A web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Web services is a well-defined way for two computers to communicate with each other over the internet. 

Drupal web services is always a good option for you

In Drupal, web service is being used to communicate with other web applications or mobile applications. Content can be shared and easily integrated with other applications as well. 

Why use web services in Drupal?

Web services are useful because they present us with an architecture where a resource on a site (an image, textual content, such as a node ID or block ID, a video or audio file) is given a unique identifier. 

Use cases 

For example, in Drupal, every node has an ID. Every file you upload to a Drupal site also has a unique path to it.

This is extremely useful since all applications share this common semantic standard. We name things similarly on all of our web applications. 

Drupal services and real world examples

Here are some examples, perhaps we have to build a product site and they are developing a app for that product site in mobile, then we can pass data from web to mobile app using the web service.  For example if the HR Department wants to integrate its job postings and applications with another web application such as job portals, web services can make this happen.

Advantages of Drupal web development services you can’t ignore

This leads to another advantage of using web services with Drupal and why we would choose to use Drupal in the first place. Instead of having to upload our photos twice—once to our Drupal site and then repeating the procedure to our some other applications, services allows us to upload the images to our Drupal site once and then automatically send that data over to other application which wants without having to upload one (or even a batch of images) again. It saves us time and speeds up the entire process of generating web-based content.

Building web services for Drupal 7

Drupal can use web services following any of the protocols mentioned earlier, including XML-RPC, REST, and SOAP. Drupal can consume web services by requesting data from other web applications using RSS and XML-formatted requests. As a Drupal developer, you can write your own service code in Drupal using PHP. You can also use the Services module as well as other service-specific contributed modules to create these web service requests.

Service module supports multiple interfaces like REST, XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, SOAP, AMF and more.

Make use of Drupal Services module for:

• Integration with core Drupal functionality like files, nodes, taxonomy, users, files and more.
• Response format API allows you to define response Formats for CONTENT-TYPE ie. application/json or application/xml. (also calls such as ENDPOINT/node/1.json work)

Additionally, all the communication between services, in our example between a client and a server, happens over HTTP (the standard web protocol). This is a uniform protocol that is used for transport and communication of the service. All transports take place uniformly using GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests, for example.

The HTTP requests are stand alone and occurs at one given moment and is isolated from all other activated requests. If HTTP requests works and gets a response, it succeeds. If HTTP requests doesn’t get response from the server or application it's communicating with, it fails. The requests can be repeated an infinite number of times.
 

admin Fri, 08/18/2017 - 08:52 Drupal Drupal Development Drupal developer Drupal Application Development

In this post I will show you a technique to fix HTML issues, import images or perform content operations during migrations.

We have to fix source content before most content migrations. This can be challenging if there are many entries in the source database. The powerful Drupal 8 Migration API provides elegant ways to solve this type of problem.

To solve HTML issues, I always create my own process plugin. Here is an example how you would call your own process plugin to fix HTML issues in the body field:

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Using the Content API Adam Balsam Thu, 08/17/2017 - 13:41

Lightning 2.1.7 includes a new top-level component: Content API. Its purpose is to provide a very basic server-side framework for building decoupled apps using Lightning as a backend. It has no strong opinions about how the "front-end" of such an application is implemented -- out of the box, it merely provides tools to deliver Drupal entities according to the JSON API specification.

Generally speaking, you can interact with API anonymously in the same way that an anonymous user can interact with a standard Drupal site. So you can do things like get a single piece of content, or a list of content without authenticating. For other actions -- the kind that would normally require you to be logged in to Drupal -- you will need to provide an OAuth access token in the header of your request. Tokens are related to a Drupal user and an OAuth client, which is associated with any number of Drupal user roles. You can obtain a token by making a specific HTTP request for it.

Let's go through some common, generic, use cases. I'll use cURL in my example so that you can easily test them out for yourself.

Getting a list of content

The API endpoints generally follow the following pattern: "/jsonapi/{entity-type}/{bundle}". So if we wanted to get a list of Basic Page content, we could send a GET request to "/jsonapi/node/page":

curl --request GET \ --url https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page

Which would return something like this:

{ "data": [ { "type": "node--page", "id": "api_test-unpublished-page-content", "attributes": { "nid": 1, "uuid": "api_test-unpublished-page-content", "vid": 1, "langcode": "en", "status": false, "title": "Unpublished Page", "created": 1502985175, "changed": 1502985175, "promote": false, "sticky": false, "revision_timestamp": 1502985175, "revision_log": null, "revision_translation_affected": true, "default_langcode": true, "path": null, "body": { "value": "--TESTING--", "format": null, "summary": null } }, "relationships": { "type": { "data": { "type": "node_type--node_type", "id": "8bae5c5c-697d-4b8a-ab22-b72e895a3b24" }, "links": { "self": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/relationships/type", "related": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/type" } }, "uid": { "data": { "type": "user--user", "id": "4d7eb3c7-db6d-4a01-8b3d-7d706d314f87" }, "links": { "self": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/relationships/uid", "related": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/uid" } }, "revision_uid": { "data": { "type": "user--user", "id": "4d7eb3c7-db6d-4a01-8b3d-7d706d314f87" }, "links": { "self": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/relationships/revision_uid", "related": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/revision_uid" } }, "moderation_state": { "data": { "type": "moderation_state--moderation_state", "id": "1a5f02e6-3f14-46a7-a40c-65590c8729a9" }, "links": { "self": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/relationships/moderation_state", "related": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content/moderation_state" } }, "scheduled_update": { "data": [ ] } }, "links": { "self": "https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content" } }, ...

That's pretty verbose. We could simplify the response by adding the "fields" parameter. In this example, we only want the "title" and "created" fields:

curl --request GET \  --url https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page\ ?fields[node--page]=title,created # Note that I'm using `[` and `]` here for clarity. These characters need to be # encoded with `%5B` and `%5D` respectively if you want to actually use these # examples.

Which would return something like this:

{ "data": [ { "type": "node--page", "id": "0bee8eb7-0f06-4986-9ca0-e340021a0af3", "attributes": { "title": "A Page", "created": 1502985175 }, "links": { "self": "https://{DOMAIN.COM}/jsonapi/node/page/0bee8eb7-0f06-4986-9ca0-e340021a0af3" } }, { "type": "node--page", "id": "4d7eb3c7-db6d-4a01-8b3d-7d706d314f87", "attributes": { "title": "Another Page", "created": 1502985175 }, ... Getting a specific piece of content

We can request a specific piece of content by specifying its UUID in the URL:

curl --request GET \  --url https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page/0bee8eb7-0f06-4986-9ca0-e340021a0af3

 Which would return something like this (but more verbose since we didn't use the "field" parameter):

{ "data": { "type": "node--page", "id": "0bee8eb7-0f06-4986-9ca0-e340021a0af3", "attributes": { "title": "A Page", "created": 1502985175 }, "links": { "self": "https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page/0bee8eb7-0f06-4986-9ca0-e340021a0af3" } }, "links": { "self": "https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page/0bee8eb7-0f06-4986-9ca0-e340021a0af3?fields%5Bnode--page%5D=title%2Ccreated" } } Getting a token

You will need to provide an access token for any request that anonymous users are not authorized to execute. Tokens are granted via the "/oauth/token" endpoint, and requests for a token must include a client_id, client_secret, username, and password. OAuth clients inherit the permissions of standard Drupal user roles by selecting one or more roles on the client's configuration form, under "Scopes". A typical setup would involve the following steps:

1. Create a Drupal role ("/admin/access/roles") with the permissions you want the consuming app to be allowed to perform.
2. Create a Drupal user ("/admin/people/create") that the API will use and assign that user the role you just created.
3. Create an OAuth2 client ("/admin/config/people/simple_oauth/oauth2_client/add") and assign it the same role as the user you just created via the Scopes section.

Once that's done, you can use the following to obtain an access token, where:

• CLIENT_ID = The OAuth2 client UUID, displayed after creation of the client in Step 3 at "/admin/access/clients"
• SECRET = The "New Secret" you chose when creating the client  in Step 3
• USERNAME = The Drupal username of the user you created in Step 2
• PASSWORD = The password you gave the Drupal user in Step 2

curl -X POST -d \ "grant_type=password\ &client_id={CLIENT_ID}\ &client_secret={SECRET}\ &username={USERNAME} &password={PASSWORD}"\ https://example.com/oauth/token

Which should generate a response like this:

{ "token_type": "Bearer", "expires_in": 300, "access_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUz...", "refresh_token": "def50200bdb9093a7a6cc837dhcd1..." }

If you want to give it a try without your own sandbox setup, Headless Lightning has a nightly build deployed to https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com with a client and user preconfigured. So you should be able to use the "/oauth/token" endpoint there to get a valid token to our sandbox if you're curious.

Give it a try! Copy and paste the following into a terminal window:

curl --request POST \ --data "grant_type=password\ &client_id=api_test-oauth2-client\ &client_secret=oursecret\ &username=api-test-user\ &password=admin"\ https://headlessnightlytfrimmmkug.devcloud.acquia-sites.com/oauth/token Using a token

Once you have a token, it's easy to get data that anonymous users aren't authorized to access. Just add an Authorize header to your request, like so (replacing {ACCESS_TOKEN} with the access_token value in the /oauth/token response):

--header 'authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}'

So let's say we wanted to get a specific piece of content just like the "Get a specific piece of content" example above. But in this case, the content is unpublished and therefore anonymous users won't be able to access it. Given that the token was acquired:

1. For an OAuth client that has a scope with the "View unpublished content" permission
2. For user account that has a role with the same permission

We can successfully make the same request for an unpublished piece of content if we include the token in an authorization header like this:

curl --request GET \ --header 'authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}'\ --url https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page/api_test-unpublished-page-content # Where `api_test-unpublished-page-content` is the UUID of some piece of # unpublished content

Note how this request is identical to the anonymous request above except that it:

1. Requests a resource that requires authorization
2. Includes an "authorization" header

Given the authorization header, Content API will authenticate the request and then authorize it (or not) based on the permissions of the associated client and user.

Creating content

You can create new content by sending a POST request to "jsonapi/{entity-type}/{bundle}". You'll need to include a specific Content-Type header, and most configurations will require Authorization as well since anonymous users usually can't create content. For example:

curl --request POST \ --data '{"data": {"type": "node--page","attributes": {"title": "Created via JSON API"}}}'\ --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json'\ --header 'authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}'\ --url https://example.com/jsonapi/node/page Content vs Configuration Entities

Drupal makes a distinction between Content and Configuration entities. Sometimes content entities are further distinguished as being renderable and/or bundle-able. Content API makes no such distinctions. If your API client/user have permission to interact with an entity, it can do so through the API. That means you can do things like add fields to a content type via the API, or edit a moderation state transition.

Headless Lightning

Everything described here can be done with Lightning. But if you're building a decoupled application, you might want to check out Headless Lightning, which has a few additional features (and a few features removed) which make it more suitable for decoupled applications.

Everyone knows that process is important, but we have all gotten lost in the rush of daily tasks.

In our latest webinar, Project Management expert Rob McBryde and Vice President of Client Services James Rutherford shared how building and following a process for estimating web projects has driven success for their clients.

Decoupled—or “headless”—content management systems have been trending in the last few years. This web development strategy, in its most basic form, is a “write once, publish anywhere” technology that separates the content from the presentation layer. Well, um...what the heck does that mean? It means that you can publish a piece of content and then use different systems to display that blog post on a computer, a mobile device, a voice-based system like Amazon’s Alexa, or even a smart watch. Basically, it allows developers to write to many different platforms without having to tediously recreate the wheel each time. (I think…)

It is a hot topic in the Drupal community. In fact, Acquia is holding Decoupled Developer Days this weekend (August 19-20 in NYC). Much of the conversation... Read the full article: Headless Drupal and SEO: What Marketers Need to Know

From time to time, we check Drupical. It's a website, where »you can Find Drupal events with ease!« With the help of it, we already presented you Drupal Camps, Virtual Drupal Camps, DrupalCons, Mini Drupal Camps and Global Drupal Sprint week. One of the nearest events is Drupal Introduction Workshop, listed on Trainings, so we’ll take a look at Drupal Trainings. More specifically, Global Drupal Training Days. To be completely fair, we presented Global Drupal Sprint Week a little late last time. We will not be making the same »mistake« again, so we'll look at the Drupal Global Training Days… READ MORE

As you may know, Drupal 6 has reached End-of-Life (EOL) which means the Drupal Security Team is no longer doing Security Advisories or working on security patches for Drupal 6 core or contrib modules - but the Drupal 6 LTS vendors are and we're one of them!

Today, there is a Moderately Critical security release for the Views module to fix an Access Bypass vulnerability.

The Views module enables you to create custom displays of Drupal data.

When creating a View, you have the option to enable the use of AJAX. The Views module does not restrict access to the AJAX endpoint to only Views configured to use AJAX. This is mitigated by having access restrictions on the view.

See the security advisory for Drupal 7 for more information.

Here you can download the Drupal 6 patch for 6.x-2.x or 6.x-3.x.

If you have a Drupal 6 site using the Views module, we recommend you update immediately.

If you'd like all your Drupal 6 modules to receive security updates and have the fixes deployed the same day they're released, please check out our D6LTS plans.

Note: if you use the myDropWizard module (totally free!), you'll be alerted to these and any future security updates, and will be able to use drush to install them (even though they won't necessarily have a release on Drupal.org).

Examples for Developer #11 Week of Coding Abhishek Lal B Wed, 08/16/2017 - 20:51

Last week, a client asked me to investigate the state of the Elasticsearch support in Drupal 8. They're using a decoupled architecture and wanted to know how—using only core and contrib modules—Drupal data could be exposed to Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch would then index that data and make it available to the site's presentation layer via the Elasticsearch  Search API. 

During my research, I was impressed by the results. Thanks to Typed Data API plus a couple of contributed modules, an administrator can browse the structure of the content in Drupal and select what and how it should be indexed by Elasticsearch. All of this can be done using Drupal's admin interface.

In this article, we will take a vanilla Drupal 8 installation and configure it so that Elasticsearch receives any content changes. Let’s get started!

Downloading and starting Elasticsearch

We will begin by downloading and starting Elasticsearch 5, which is the latest stable release. Open https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch and follow the installation instructions. Once you start the process, open your browser and enter http://127.0.0.1:9200. You should see something like the following screenshot:

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Now let’s setup our Drupal site so it can talk to Elasticsearch.

Setting up Search API

High five to Thomas Seidl for the Search API module and Nikolay Ignatov for the Elasticsearch Connector module. Thanks to them, pushing content to Elasticsearch is a matter of a few clicks.

At the time of this writing there is no available release for Elasticsearch Connector, so you will have to clone the repository and checkout the 8.x-5.x branch and follow the installation instructions. As for Search API, just download and install the latest stable version.

Connecting Drupal to Elasticsearch

Next, let’s connect Drupal to the Elasticsearch server that we configured in the previous section. Navigate to Configuration > Search and Metadata > Elasticsearch Connector and then fill out the form to add a cluster:

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Click 'Save' and check that the connection to the server was successful:

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That’s it for Elasticsearch Connector. The rest of the configuration will be done using the Search API module.

Configuring a search index

Search API provides an abstraction layer that allows Drupal to push content changes to different servers, whether that's Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, or any other provider that has a Search API compatible module. Within each server, search API can create indexes, which are like buckets where you can push data that can be searched in different ways. Here is a drawing to illustrate the setup:

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Now navigate to Configuration > Search and Metadata > Search API and click on Add server:

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Fill out the form to let Search API manage the Elasticsearch server:

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Click Save, then check that the connection was successful:

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Next, we will create an index in the Elasticsearch server where we will specify that we want to push all of the content in Drupal. Go back to Configuration > Search and Metadata > Search API and click on Add index:

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Fill out the form to create an index where content will be pushed by Drupal:

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Click Save and verify that the index creation was successful:

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Verify the index creation at the Elasticsearch server by opening http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/indices?v in a new browser tab:

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That’s it! We will now test whether Drupal can properly update Elasticsearch when the index should reflect content changes.

Indexing content

Create a node and then run cron. Verify that the node has been pushed to Elasticsearch by opening the URL http://127.0.0.1:9200/elasticsearch_index_draco_elastic_index/_search, where elasticsearch_index_draco_elastic_index is obtained from the above screenshot:

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Success! The node has been pushed but only it’s identifier is there. We need to select which fields we do want to push to Elasticsearch via the Search API interface at Configuration > Search and Metadata > Search API > Our Elasticsearch index > Fields:

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Click on Add fields and select the fields that you want to push to Elasticsearch:

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Add the fields and click Save. This time we will use Drush to reset the index and index the content again:

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After reloading http://127.0.0.1:9200/elasticsearch_index_draco_elastic_index/_search, we can see the added(s) field(s):

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This is the extra ball: Search API provides a list of processors that will alter the data to be indexed to Elasticsearch. Things like transliteration, filtering out unpublished content, or case insensitive searching, are available via the web interface. Here is the list, which you can find by clicking Processors when you are viewing the server at Search API :

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Now that you have an Elasticsearch engine, it’s time to start hooking it up with your front-end applications. We have seen that the web interface of the Search API module saves a ton of development time, but if you ever need to go the extra mile, there are hooks, events, and plugins that you can use in order to fit your requirements. A good place to start is the Search API’s project homepage. Happy searching!

Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

• Mike Herchel and Andrew Berry for their technical reviews.
• Photo by Sad loser (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

We've got a new installment in the decoupled Drupal project we're working on with Elevated Third and Hoorooh.

The project we're documenting was one we worked on for Powdr Resorts, one of the largest ski operators in North America.

The first installment in the series was A Deep Dive into a Decoupled Drupal 8 Project.

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Join us for Tour de Drupal Vienna

Cycling is a great way to travel, experience new things and meet like-minded people. Join us for Tour de Drupal Vienna and let’s cycle together to DrupalCon!

Josef Dabernig Wed, 08/16/2017 - 15:54

On Sunday, 24 September we plan to start at 8am from Krems and travel to Tulln. At 11am we’ll arrive in Tulln and meet at the Weshapers office for some drinks & BBQ.

In the afternoon at 2pm, we plan to leave Tulln and cycle the remaining 40 km to Vienna to finally arrive in Vienna.

To sum-up, the meeting points are:

• Sunday, 24 September: 7 - 8am in Krems at Cafe Conditorei Raimitz.
• Sunday, 24 September: 11am - 2pm in Tulln at the Webshapers office/beer garden.
• Sunday, 24 September: 5pm in Vienna in front of the big wheel at Kaiserwiese.

Source

The arrival is planned for Sunday, 24 September at 5pm in front of the big wheel in Vienna at Kaiserwiese.

How to get there?

There are many cycling routes that lead to Vienna. We created a map that currently highlights roads from east and west along the Danube. Also, check out the EuroVelo routes, bessone summarized the interesting ones for Vienna.

If you just wanna join for the last day, it’s a 30-minute train ride from Vienna to Tulln or 1:10 from Vienna to Krems and you can bring your bike on the train. Check ÖBB to book your train ticket.

Convinced? Tell us you are coming!

• Use the #tourdedrupal hashtag on twitter.
• Sign-up via the doodle.
• Join the discussion on groups.drupal.org.

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