Automate Drupal without writing code — visually on the canvas, or right inside the form you’re editing.
ECA lets you automate a Drupal site without writing code: pick an event, add a condition, choose an action. Around 16,000 sites run it today, and its visual modeler — the drag-and-drop flowchart — is the part most people picture when they hear the name.
ECA got a significant upgrade this year: a new modeler with color, dark mode, and full keyboard accessibility.
But the more consequential change is what happens when you never open the modeler. ECA now offers automation in place: click a field on a form, choose a template, and the model is built for you in the background — no canvas, no tokens, no need to know ECA is involved. Additionally, there’s a debugger that replays what your site actually did, step by step, with every variable visible along the way.
Jürgen Haas created ECA and maintains it, and is a Drupal core subsystem maintainer for the new admin theme. He last spoke to SFDUG in January 2022, when ECA was six months old and had about thirty installs.
