PDF Audit: List shows where PDFs appear

[msbtterswrth]

Description

Stretch task of #6980

• I want to know what pages these PDFs have been added to, so that i can understand the context

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] List shows where these PDFs appear.

Implementation Ideas

There are two modules that may help us build something: https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_usage and possibly https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_usage_views_field

CMS Team

Please check the team(s) that will do this work.

• [ ] CMS Program
• [ ] Platform CMS Team
• [ ] Sitewide CMS Team (leave Sitewide unchecked and check the specific team instead)
  • [x] ⭐️ Content ops
  • [ ] ⭐️ CMS experience
  • [ ] ⭐️ Offices
  • [ ] ⭐️ Product support
  • [ ] ⭐️ User support

[kevwalsh]

We may want to convert this into a broader spike ticket to evaluate all “library” user stories. Like

• how many times is an alert block used (i know one alert block is reused 150+ times)
• how many times a taxonomy term is referenced (like at /vha-health-services )
• how many times a Q&A is reused.
• how many times a VA Form is referenced (see our other thread from today about the PDF audit, and #3232 for related user stories.
• etc etc

The module has some other nice features like providing warnings to editors who are editing reused content. Would be nice to potentially extend this for the “Archive” action, and let the editor know, eg “There are 25 published facility services that reference this service. You must archive those first”. (epic #2833)

Screenshot


Then, we should add an AC for this spike to evaluate/measure performance costs.

• Does this slow down every node save?
• How often will need to run the batch update? It seems to take 1 second for every node, which means 12 hours for 42K nodes! 😱
• etc

[rachel-kauff]

@msbtterswrth Is it safe to assume that this work and anything related to it (say, showing where images appear) is fairly far off? It would add depth to my alt text audit, but I sense it's prob blocked / a big lift?

[msbtterswrth]

Nope! We have a 'working' POC for this in the attached PR and will be surfacing this as part of the broken links spike today so i think it's probably pretty soon that we'll have a working tool for us!

[rachel-kauff]

Oh great! Prob not in time for this current audit, but means we can iterate later on.

[mgifford]

Just dropping in this quick Google hack most folks don't know about. You can just search for this site:www.va.gov+filetype:pdf

Mind you there are dozens of other ways to do this too.