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When defining local tasks (= tabs) in your Drupal 8 modules, you can specify a title for the tab via the 'title' property in your [MODULENAME].links.task.yml file.

However, in some cases you might want to make the task title dynamic, e.g. depending on the context of the entity where the tab is displayed.
This can be achieved by overriding the \Drupal\Core\Menu\LocalTaskDefault class with your own class for that tab.

Here is an example that uses a callback function to dynamically set the title, both for the route and the local task:

Drupal 8 allows you to define custom tabs (a.k.a. local tasks) in your custom module.
For theming purposes, it might be necessary to add a class, ID, or other HTML attribute to the tab link.

Here is how this can be achieved when defining the local task in your [modulename].links.task.yml:

This weekend the first Drupal Executives Meetup (Drupal CXO) took place in Brussels. People in executive roles at Drupal shops from all over Europe gathered at the Microsoft offices to discuss and collaborate on various topics related to Drupal in a business environment.

Following the OpenSpace concept, I participated in a few sessions that were of interest to me. This blog post is my summary on 2 interesting topics that were discussed during various sessions. I enjoyed these most because some real action points came out of them.

When I was recently challenged with the task to periodically import and update data coming from a SOAP webservice into Drupal nodes, I used the Drupal batch API for processing the imports without giving it much thought. When testing the process during development in my browser, everything was working as it should have been. At least that's what I thought...

On June 24th, we at Pure Sign organised a Drupal User Group meeting around the topic of E-commerce in Drupal. First, an introduction to setting up an Ubercart webshop was given by Hans Rossel. After that, Joachim De Schagt and I presented on more advanced Ubercart topics, and what the future of commerce in Drupal 7 will look like.

Click read more to find the presentation slides of this talk, which was in Dutch.

This tutorial will show you how create a Google Map with location pinpoints in Drupal 6, and how to let your users filter the map based on postalcode.

This walkthrough was written to create a map for Belgium, as I encountered some gotchas while doing so. However most of it will apply to other countries as well, and you might even skip some steps that are only required for the Belgium use case.