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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

Going live and accolades


A week after Lynn's meeting with Jim and the rest of his team, the site was ready to go live. Jim's team had migrated a copy of the development site, including the code, database, and user files, onto the production servers. On that momentous day, Jim contacted the domain registrar and changed the IP addresses for the bluedroprealty.com domain. A couple of hours later, visitors to the site were surprised and impressed.

Later that year, at the annual realtor's conference for the state of Missouri, the bluedroprealty.com website won an award for the best locally produced website of the year. Lynn was excited when she got the news and shared it with Jim.

"Jim, you aren't going to believe this!"

"Well, hello Lynn. Long time no talk. I presume all is well with your new site?"

"Not only is it running better than it ever did in Drupal 6, but it also just won the state realtors association award for the best website of the year!"

"An award justly deserved, even if I do say so...