Building Custom Activity Logs with Message Module in Drupal

Join our free livestream about implementing site activity logging using the Message module.

Learn to create custom message types and track user activities across your Drupal site.

We'll cover:
Introduction to Message module fundamentals
Creating and managing custom message types
Implementing activity logging with hooks
Integration with ECA for advanced logging
Display and management of comment activities

Join our free livestream and learn how to track site activities in your Drupal site.

00:00 Preshow

Introduction
04:42 Introduction
05:16 Message Module
07:58 Message ecosystem
09:41 Message UI

Message Module
10:27 Install Message
12:09 Create Message Template
13:13 Create entity reference field
14:29 Add message text

Using Message UI Module
16:38 Using Message UI
18:08 Add links to message text

Create Message Logs using Object Hooks
21:51 Create messages using object hooks
23:40 Create custom module using Drush
24:49 Create object hook class
30:13 Add message service code

Using ECA with Message
33:34 Introduction to ECA
38:06 ECA Message module
38:59 Install ECA modules
39:55 Create workflow in ECA
49:36 View errors in ECA
51:00 Export ECA models

Display messages in Block
52:44 Create block view
53:55 Add fields to views
55:53 Add block to sidebar

Track Comments using Message and ECA
57:08 Introduction to tracking comments
57:50 Create message template
1:00:37 Test comment message template
1:01:18 Create ECA workflow to log comments
1:06:21 Other ECA modules

Message Configuration
1:07:42 Message configuration

Ending

1:09:04 Recap
1:11:12 Ending

1:12:39 Postshow


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