Book Image

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Gregg Marshall
Book Image

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

Other relationship considerations


Lynn picked up the phone to call Jim. Seeing Lynn about to make a call, Jackson decided it would be more interesting to prowl around the house and left her desk with a leap.

"Hi Jim."

"Hi Lynn, what can I do for you tonight?"

"I got the attachment with upcoming open houses working on the main Selectable Page display that I've been building. I ran into an odd problem though. I kept trying different things to make the list of open houses match the list selected by the exposed filters, but it just wouldn't work. I was about to give up and ask you to meet me, when, for no reason at all, I saved my work and decided to see what the page looked like otherwise. Oddly, the filters that didn't work on the open house listing in the preview worked fine on the actual page."

"That doesn't seem right. Let me try that on a clean install, and if I see the same behavior, we'll file an issue on Drupal.org about it. What else?"

"I noticed when I was attaching my new display that...