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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Marshall
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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

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By: Marshall
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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 (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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A short history
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Drupal is always changing
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Up and Running with Views
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1. Up and Running with Views
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Drupal 8 is here, should I upgrade?
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Looking at the Views administration page
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Views settings
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Adapting an existing View
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Debugging – Live Preview is your friend
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Summary
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2. Views from Scratch
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2. Views from Scratch
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A first try at listing the available properties
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The anatomy of a view
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Showing the Watchdog logs
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Summary
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3. Sorting and Filtering
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3. Sorting and Filtering
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Changing the sort order
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Filtering results
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Exposed filters – giving power to your visitors
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Summary
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4. Contextual Filters
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4. Contextual Filters
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Contextual filters are filters in a different place
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Using default values to "create" options
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5. Relationships
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5. Relationships
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Fixing the neighborhood property listing title
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What are relationships?
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Adding realtor information to the property listings
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Adding an open house attachment display to the property listings view
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Other relationship considerations
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6. Add-on Modules
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6. Add-on Modules
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Adding a rotating carousel to the front page
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Mapping content
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Doing away with pagers – creating an infinite page
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Expandable accordions hide and show content
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Putting one View inside another
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Adding a calendar of open houses
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7. Field Rewrites
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7. Field Rewrites
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Linking to anything
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Changing how fields are output
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If-then-else conditional rewrites
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8. Customizing Views
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8. Customizing Views
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Display settings
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Header, Footer, and No Results Behavior
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Pager
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Adding No Results and Footer to Available Property Listings
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9. Advanced View Settings
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9. Advanced View Settings
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Becoming advanced
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Changing the SQL queries generated by views
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Making Views go fast
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10. Theming Views
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10. Theming Views
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Time to theme
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Changing generated HTML and CSS from the Views UI
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When the HTML code needs to change
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Going live and accolades
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A. Content Types for a Sample Site
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A. Content Types for a Sample Site
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Property
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Property Owner
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Realtor
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Open House
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County Taxonomy
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Neighborhood Taxonomy
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Index
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Chapter 6. Add-on Modules

Views has a very extensible architecture and there are a large number of contributed modules that extend the functions of views to allow many different types of displays. At the time of release of Drupal 8, a search of Drupal.org modules using the category Views resulted in 65 modules; not all are extensions and some, such as CTools, are support modules that are tagged for Views, because they are necessary for older versions of Drupal. That number climbed to 85 with Drupal 8.0.2. The number will continue to grow as modules are converted to Drupal 8 by their authors or the community. By comparison, at the time of release of Drupal 8.0.2, there were 608 Drupal 7 modules in the Views category.

In this chapter, we'll install and configure Views Slideshow to create a rotating carousel of featured property images. Then we'll build a very simple Google map using the views formatter integrated in the Drupal 8 version of the Geolocation module, since...

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