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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

Contextual filters are filters in a different place


Lynn picked up the phone and dialed Jim. When he answered, she said "Jim, do you have time for a couple of quick questions?"

"Sure, what can I help you with?"

"Great. When I was adding my improvements to the available property listing with exposed filters, on the taxonomy filter for neighborhoods, there was an option, Display error message. Do you have any idea of what this option does? It's not a big deal; I left it enabled, and it doesn't seem to affect how the view is working, but I am curious about it."

Jim replied, "I have no clue. Let me ask the developers here if they know, or they can find out. Do you have any questions I would know the answer to?"

"Ok, let's move on to one I remember you telling me before. On our current site, I did a series of view pages that showed the listings for a given neighborhood. I built it using a filter for the neighborhood and by creating a new view display for each neighborhood. I remember you saying that...