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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Listing testimonials with a view


You are now going to create another view, and this time to list all your testimonials.

In the next section, you will also see just one example of the type of customizations that you effect on a view—in this case, how to group testimonials according to the Work area(s) that they relate to.

As you have already seen, the Views module is a very accessible tool for querying and presenting site content, and even the core version provides you with a range of options for providing both pre-filtered, pre-sorted, and user-filterable lists in a variety of formats.

Creating a grouped view

This view will list a number of testimonials nodes together under a heading of E-Commerce, another under Consultancy and then some more under Training as illustrated in the following screenshot:

This time around, we'll return to using a Page view again rather than a block because we don't have an existing Testimonials page into which to embed a block anyway.

Starting with a page view is also...