Content types

Content types are a Drupal concept that allow for modelling content using fields to describe the data structure. See the Drupal documentation for more details.

Ripple content types

As SDP is a headless CMS using a decoupled architecture once we have modelled content in Tide, we need a way to render it into a template that can be delivered to end users. Ripple content types allow you to support custom templates for new content types.

Ripple content types consist of the following parts:

API Mapping

See API Endpoints for more information the Tide API translation layer. For each content type we supply a function that maps the Tide Drupal API response into more concise fields that match the data needed for

Template

To render the page using Ripple UI components, we need to create a Vue component that is passed the data from the API request and, using Ripple UI components, creates a layout that matches your intended design.

See the Content type guide for more information on creating new content types.

Core content types

In Tide we have a number of content types which are part of the core distribution and are initially included in SDP sites

• Landing page
• Event
• Grant
• News
• Publication (page)
• Alert