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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.

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Up and Running with Views
Up and Running with Views
Drupal 8 is here, should I upgrade?
Looking at the Views administration page
Views settings
Adapting an existing View
Debugging – Live Preview is your friend
Summary
2
Views from Scratch
Views from Scratch
A first try at listing the available properties
The anatomy of a view
Showing the Watchdog logs
Summary
3
Sorting and Filtering
Sorting and Filtering
Changing the sort order
Filtering results
Exposed filters – giving power to your visitors
Summary
4
Contextual Filters
Contextual Filters
Contextual filters are filters in a different place
Using default values to "create" options
Summary
5
Relationships
Relationships
Fixing the neighborhood property listing title
What are relationships?
Adding realtor information to the property listings
Adding an open house attachment display to the property listings view
Other relationship considerations
Summary
6
Add-on Modules
Add-on Modules
Adding a rotating carousel to the front page
Mapping content
Doing away with pagers – creating an infinite page
Expandable accordions hide and show content
Putting one View inside another
Adding a calendar of open houses
Summary
7
Field Rewrites
Field Rewrites
Linking to anything
Changing how fields are output
If-then-else conditional rewrites
Summary
8
Customizing Views
Customizing Views
Display settings
Header, Footer, and No Results Behavior
Pager
Adding No Results and Footer to Available Property Listings
Summary
9
Advanced View Settings
Advanced View Settings
Becoming advanced
Changing the SQL queries generated by views
Making Views go fast
Summary
10
Theming Views
Theming Views
Time to theme
Changing generated HTML and CSS from the Views UI
When the HTML code needs to change
Going live and accolades
Summary
Content Types for a Sample Site
Content Types for a Sample Site
Property
Property Owner
Realtor
Open House
County Taxonomy
Neighborhood Taxonomy
Index
Index

About the Author

Gregg Marshall has been using Drupal since 2006. While he installed Drupal 5, his first production site was Drupal 6. He started his career as a software engineer, switched to sales/marketing in an unrelated industry, and drifted back to development. After attending DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco, Gregg switched from channel marketing that used Drupal for microsites to being a full-time Drupal developer.

Gregg works as a consultant/contractor, frequently mentoring in-house development teams on Drupal best practices. His current contract is with WebNY, where he serves as the senior Drupal architect for the state of New York, helping build a single platform for all the state's websites.

Gregg is a speaker at Drupal Camps and is a professional speaker to 30+ associations and corporate meetings. He has over 400 published articles in a variety of publications. Gregg has a bachelor's degree in chemistry, a master's degree in electrical engineering, and a master's degree in business administration. He is an Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master.

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