University governance is surprisingly complex — faculty senate motions move through layers of committees, require approvals from multiple stakeholders, and demand a paper trail that can span decades. Manually managing this process can be error-prone and time-consuming.
This session explores how the ECA (Entity-Condition-Action) module supports a university senate site, leveraging the power of ECA to make a Drupal site a fully automated governance platform. Using Drupal's visual BPMN.io workflow modeler, we built automations that generate motion tracking numbers, route approval notifications to the right people at every stage, maintain an immutable audit log, and enforce status transitions — all without writing workflow logic in PHP (well, mostly - we'll talk a little about writing custom ECA actions).
Whether you're new to ECA or looking for real-world patterns to apply in your own projects, you'll leave with practical knowledge of how to design, build, and debug event-driven automations in Drupal.
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