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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

Acknowledgements

To my wife, Lorraine, who has been completely supportive of writing this book while also commuting to New York to work, and my children, Christopher, Patrick, and Amanda, who have stepped in to free up my time.

I would like to thank the team at WebNY, who have been great to work with as my two month contract enters its fourth year. I would like to acknowledge especially Jennifer Warner, Meredith Case, and Jim Kavanaugh, who encouraged me in this endeavor.

A special thank you to the technical reviewer, Adrian Ababei, who has offered a ton of great suggestions and pointed me to a number of Views options I hadn't noticed before.

Finally, a thank you to Dries Buytaert for Drupal and Earl Miles for Views; obviously, without them, this book would be empty.