CollectiveAccess Feeds

Description:

This module builds upon the CollectiveAccess module, to allow retrieving data from CollectiveAccess and importing it into Drupal nodes (or other entities) through the Feeds module.

Functionality overview:

• Allow for automatic retrieval, updating and field mapping of CollectiveAccess data to Drupal entities (nodes, Commerce products, ...)
• As per Feeds functionality periodic updates can be set up.
• Available Feeds plugins:
  - FeedsCollectiveAccessFetcher: allows Feeds to connect to one of the CollectiveAccess instances available on the website
  - FeedsCollectiveAccessParser: parses CollectiveAccess object data for usage by a Feeds processor
  This allows you to create nodes, Drupal Commerce products, etc... out of the retrieved data
• Retrieval modes:
  • all objects
  • last changed
  • by collection id(s)

Compatibility

There will be both a Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 version of this module.
The Drupal 7 version is the main development branch.
Most features will be available in both versions, but functionality that requires Drupal 7 specific APIs or dependencies will not be backported.

Dependencies & integration

Dependencies:

• CollectiveAccess
• Feeds

Recommendations:

• Feeds Tamper module: can help you clean up and process the data coming from CollectiveAccess before having it processed by Feeds
• Support for mapping to multilingual fields in Feeds is available, but requires a patch to Feeds module:
  http://drupal.org/node/1183440#comment-4647432
• If you encounter problems with Feeds updates on cron, check out this issue

More information

If you are interested in helping us push this project forward, want to give feedback or have more questions regarding our plans, please feel free to contact me!

Sponsor / Acknowledgements:

This module is sponsored by Colibreo.com - CollectiveAccess & Drupal SaaS solution, created by Pure Sign.
Pure Sign can be contacted for paid customizations of this module as well as Drupal and CollectiveAccess consulting and development.

The Drupal 7 version of the module was realized with the support of Lukas.
The Drupal 6 version of the module was realized with the support of Vlaamse Kunstcollectie.