# Varbase Content Base The **Varbase Content Base** recipe provides the core content configuration for Varbase sites, including node types, taxonomy vocabularies, block content, the menu system, path aliases, and essential content management modules. ## Drupal.org Project ## Included Modules Brings in the following core and contributed modules to your site: | Module | Purpose | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Node** *(in Drupal core)* | Manages the creation, configuration, and display of the main site content. | | **Taxonomy** *(in Drupal core)* | Enables the categorization of content. | | **Text** *(in Drupal core)* | Defines field types for short and long text with optional summaries. | | **Views** *(in Drupal core)* | Provides a framework to fetch information from the database and to display it in different formats. | | **Field** *(in Drupal core)* | Provides the capabilities to add fields to entities. | | **Block** *(in Drupal core)* | Allows users to configure blocks (containing content, forms, etc.) and to place them in the regions of a theme. | | **Block Content** *(in Drupal core)* | Allows the creation of content blocks and block types. | | **Configuration Manager** *(in Drupal core)* | Allows importing and exporting configuration changes. | | **Datetime** *(in Drupal core)* | Defines field types for storing dates and times. | | **File** *(in Drupal core)* | Provides a field type for files and defines a "managed\_file" Form API element. | | **Image** *(in Drupal core)* | Defines a field type for image media and provides display configuration tools. | | **Options** *(in Drupal core)* | Defines field types with select lists, checkboxes, and radio buttons to select values from fixed lists of options. | | **Path** *(in Drupal core)* | Allows users to create custom URLs for existing paths on the site. | | [**Entity**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity) | Provides expanded entity APIs, which will be moved to Drupal core one day. | | [**Chaos Tools**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools) | Provides a number of utility and helper APIs for Drupal developers and site builders. | | [**Chaos Tools Blocks**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools) | Provides improvements to blocks that will one day be added to Drupal core. | | [**Chaos Tools Views**](https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools) | A set of improvements to the core Views code that allows for greater control over Blocks. | | [**Token**](https://www.drupal.org/project/token) | Provides a user interface for the Token API and some missing core tokens. | | [**Token Filter**](https://www.drupal.org/project/token_filter) | Allows token values to be used as filters. | | [**Better Exposed Filters**](https://www.drupal.org/project/better_exposed_filters) | Provides advanced options (e.g. links, checkboxes, or other widgets) to exposed Views elements. | | [**Date Filter**](https://www.drupal.org/project/date_filter) | Improves the core datetime Views date filter. | | [**Field Group**](https://www.drupal.org/project/field_group) | Provides the ability to group your fields on both form and display. | | [**Smart Trim**](https://www.drupal.org/project/smart_trim) | Provides a more robust alternative to "summary or trimmed" textfield format. | | [**Advanced Text Formatter**](https://www.drupal.org/project/advanced_text_formatter) | Provides an additional formatter for text field, text area and text format. | | [**Block Class**](https://www.drupal.org/project/block_class) | Allows assigning classes, attributes and ID to blocks. | | **Contextual Links** *(in Drupal core)* | Provides contextual links to directly access tasks related to page elements. | | [**Diff**](https://www.drupal.org/project/diff) | Shows changes between content revisions. | | [**ECA Core**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Core module for ECA framework. | | [**Modeler API**](https://www.drupal.org/project/modeler_api) | Provides an API for modules to use modelers like BPMN.iO. | | [**BPMN.iO Modeler**](https://www.drupal.org/project/bpmn_io) | BPMN modeler, integrated into Drupal's admin UI. | | [**ECA UI**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Provides a user interface for managing ECA models. | | [**ECA Base**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Base events, conditions and actions. | | [**ECA Config**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Config events. | | [**ECA Content**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Content entity events, conditions and actions. | | [**ECA Form**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Form API events, conditions and actions. | | [**ECA Miscellaneous**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Miscellaneous events and conditions from Drupal core and the kernel. | | [**ECA User**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | User events, conditions and actions. | | [**ECA Render**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Rendering capabilities for ECA, such as blocks and links. | | [**ECA Access**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Access events, conditions and actions. | | [**ECA Cache**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Cache actions for ECA. | | [**ECA File**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Events, conditions and actions related fo files and file entities. | | [**ECA Menu**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Additional options for working with menu links. | | [**ECA Queue**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Events, conditions and actions for queued operations. | | [**ECA Views**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Execute and export Views query results within ECA. | | [**ECA Log**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | Events and actions for Drupal log messages. | | [**ECA Endpoint**](https://www.drupal.org/project/eca) | A URL endpoint whose contents are served by ECA. | | **Menu UI** *(in Drupal core)* | Provides a user interface for managing menus. | | **Custom Menu Links** *(in Drupal core)* | Allows users to create menu links. | | **Filter** *(in Drupal core)* | Filters text content in preparation for display. | | **Field UI** *(in Drupal core)* | Provides a user interface for the Field module. | | **Help** *(in Drupal core)* | Generates help pages and provides a Help block with page-level help. | | [**Menu Block**](https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_block) | Provides configurable blocks of menu links. | | [**Views Infinite Scroll**](https://www.drupal.org/project/views_infinite_scroll) | A pager which allows an infinite scroll effect for views. | | [**Entity Browser**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_browser) | Provide a generic entity browser/picker/selector. | | [**Entity Usage**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_usage) | Track usage of entities referenced by other entities. | | [**Entityqueue**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entityqueue) | Allows users to collect entities in arbitrarily ordered lists. | | [**Entityqueue Form Widget**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entityqueue_form_widget) | A handy module to populate a form element in the sidebar of node's add and edit pages to allow editors to add content to entityqueues directly from add/edit forms. | | [**Inline Entity Form**](https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form) | Provides a widget for inline management (creation, modification, removal) of referenced entities. | | **Inline Form Errors** *(in Drupal core)* | Places error messages adjacent to form inputs, for improved usability and accessibility. | | [**Menu Position**](https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_position) | Customize menu position of nodes depending on their content type, associated terms and others conditions. | | [**Tagify**](https://www.drupal.org/project/tagify) | Makes entity reference fields more user-friendly using Tagify. | | [**Rabbit Hole**](https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbit_hole) | Basic functionality that is shared among the different Rabbit Hole modules. | | [**Canvas Override**](https://www.drupal.org/project/canvas_override) | Provides overrides and enhancements for the Drupal Canvas page builder. | | [**View Modes Inventory**](https://www.drupal.org/project/vmi) | This module has a set of template view modes that we typically use (some of them) in each website. | | [**Varbase Components**](https://www.drupal.org/project/varbase_components) | Provides SDC components for Varbase. | | [**Content Lock**](https://www.drupal.org/project/content_lock) | Prevents simultaneous edits to a node by locking it for the user who began editing first. | | [**Content Lock Timeout**](https://www.drupal.org/project/content_lock) | Releases stale Content Lock holds after a configured idle timeout. | | [**Node Edit Protection**](https://www.drupal.org/project/node_edit_protection) | Warns editors before navigating away from an unsaved node edit form. | ## Available Modules (Not Enabled by Default) The following modules are downloaded with this recipe but not enabled during installation. You can enable them manually if needed: | Module | Purpose | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | | [**Entity Clone**](https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_clone) | Add a clone action for all entities. | ## Installation Apply the recipe using Drush: ```bash ddev drush recipe ../recipes/varbase_content_base ``` This recipe is automatically applied when using the Varbase Starter recipe. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.varbase.vardot.com/developers/understanding-varbase/varbase-recipes/varbase-content-base.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. 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