Workbench Tabs in Drupal 8

In his blog post outlining the roadmap to Drupal 9 published last week, Dries Buytaert states that “if you are on Drupal 8, you just have to keep your Drupal 8 site up-to-date and you'll be ready for Drupal 9.” The maturity of Drupal 8 and its solid upgrade path make this the time to migrate your site to Drupal 8.

We’re excited to announce that the Palantir team released a new Workbench module this month for Drupal 8 called Workbench Tabs. We have used this module to improve editorial usability on nearly all of our Drupal 8 projects, and it has been public on Github for a while now, but now it's available on Drupal.org!

What is Workbench?

Workbench is a suite of modules released by Palantir to help solve common editorial problems in Drupal. The core Workbench module is largely a collection of custom Views that create dashboards for content editors. Its widespread use by organizations in government, higher education, nonprofits, and media is a testament to the module suite, and its capabilities have been helping editorial teams manage workflows and permissions since Drupal 7.

What does Workbench Tabs do?

Workbench Tabs integrates local task tabs and Drupal messages into the Toolbar. What exactly does that mean?

• Editorial usability is improved by placing the "Edit," "View," "Revisions," and "Delete" tabs in a consistent location
• Custom themes don't need to place and style the local task tabs
• Drupal messages will be separated from the content layout

++ to the Palantir team members that made this happen: Patrick, Ashley, Ken, Avi, and Bec.

Want to learn more about Workbench in Drupal 8? Drop us a line through our contact form, or reach out to us on Twitter @Palantir.