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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Gregg Marshall
Book Image

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

Summary


This chapter covered theming the output of Views from simple CSS additions that can be managed directly from the user interface, to using Twig templates, to completely changing the HTML code generated by views. Twig is a big change in Drupal 8 theming and worth learning.

That's the end of this book on mastering Views. I hope you have enjoyed following Lynn's adventures as she learned all about how to get the most out of Views to create flexible and powerful displays of the collections of content. Remember that this book just scratches the surface of what is possible with Views. Your imagination and the willingness to experiment with what Views does are the only limits. I'd like to leave you with a picture of the "real" Jackson. He doesn't belong to Lynn but to one of my co-workers at WebNY, Meredith Case:

The "real" Jackson