Step by Step

By reusing existing forms and breaking them down into a sequence (or wizard) of smaller steps, Step by Step is a way to reduce the power of Drupal's UI down to one decision at a time. It was originally designed to walk absolute beginner webmasters through the choices needed to get them up and running on building their first websites. Soon after, it was put to use creating a workflow for some complex tasks that site admins need to get right without having to memorise all the steps. You can use it to make a wizard for any workflow that requires one or more forms from core, contrib or your own custom modules.

A Step by Step sequence consists of a number of existing Drupal forms, which are each to be displayed in part or in whole as one step in the sequence, with added buttons allowing each one to be saved and marked as 'completed', or marked as 'skipped' over without saving. It is possible for a form to be used in more than one step, with a different part of the form visible each time.

Step by Step is included in a distribution of Drupal that is used within the organisation that I work for. The automatic build and testing process for this distribution seems to skew the statistics for 'sites that report using this module'. This is beyond my control and is not a deliberate attempt to play the system.

This module was presented at NWDUG Unconference 2016 and Drupal Mountain Camp 2017 under the working title of "Simplestep".