Many organizations have a requirement for storing and managing documents. This recipe makes use of the Document content type created in the preceding recipe to build a document library, resulting in a document library as depicted in the following screenshot:
For this recipe you will need to install the most recent recommended releases of the following modules:
After installing these modules you need to enable the following features:
Chaos tools
Views
Views UI
You will also need to have completed the previous recipe, Creating a document content type.
First we will create a new View for displaying the document list; we will then configure the view before testing it:
1. Select Structure from the admin menu, then select Views.
2. Select +Add new view.
3. In the View name field enter Document library.
4. Configure the first fieldset so that it reads Show Content of type Document...