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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Gregg Marshall
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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By: Gregg Marshall

Overview of this book

Learn how to build complex displays of content—all without programming. Views were used on more than 80% of all Drupal 7 sites; now they are part of the Drupal 8 core. While most site builders and site owners are aware of views, they don't understand how to take full advantage of their power to create many amazing pages and blocks. If they use views, they might build 10 different view displays with different filters, without knowing that a contextual filter would require only a single display. Using our sample company, we'll take its existing content and evolve an ever more complex and powerful website for that company, starting with adapting the administration the user sees and moving on to making complex pages of information for site visitors. While the book is written for Drupal 8, the similarities between Views in Drupal 7 and 8 make this a useful reference for Drupal 7 site builders also.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Showing the Watchdog logs


That weekend, Lynn finally had time for Jim's homework. She decided that a block showing the five most recent errors would be available for everyone who could log in. At the bottom of this block would be a See more link to go to a page that showed all the page not found errors in a table format.

Adding the Views

Again starting at the Views listing page (Manage | Structure | Views), Lynn clicked on the Add new view button. She then completed the following fields:

  • View name: Page Not Found Errors

  • Description: field checked with text Display URLs of page not found errors from the Drupal Watchdog log

  • VIEW SETTINGS Show: Log entries

  • Sorted by: Newest first

  • PAGE SETTINGS Create a page: field checked

  • Page title: Page Not Found Errors

  • Path: administration/page-not-found-errors

  • PAGE DISPLAY SETTINGS Display format: Table of fields

  • Items to display: 25

  • Use a pager: field checked

  • Create a menu link: field unchecked

  • Include an RSS feed: field unchecked

  • BLOCK SETTINGS Create a block: field...