Leveraging Custom Views Plugins to Display Remote API Data in a Drupal View

Session Category PHP / Symfony Case Study Audience Intermediate

On the Digital Commons Drupal platform that hosts 90 NC State Agency web sites there has been an increasing need to pull data from other data sources and display data on Drupal sites. This session will explore how to create a custom views query plugin and views filter plugins to get data from a Microsoft Dynamics API and use Drupal Views to display the data in a Drupal site. A secondary topic will be how the NCDIT team is using AI tools like Github CoPilot to drastically reduce time needed to create custom modules used in this project and others.