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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

The anatomy of a view


Lynn was confused a couple of times as she built her first view of available properties, so she decided that an hour with Jim would be really handy. Calling Jim, she said "Hi Jim, I just built my first view on the development site."

"Congratulations! That's a big step forward," he replied.

"However, I found it really confusing. There are so many options, and the terminology is so different from anything I've worked with before. I wonder whether you would have some time soon to sort of walk me through some of what I saw. I have a feeling if I master some of this terminology, the rest will fall into place."

"Drupal does have its own unique language. Some words don't exist anywhere else, and others have different meanings from what you might be used to hearing. I agree a quick rundown would be handy. Do you have a free hour some evening this week?"

Jim and Lynn decided to meet at a local Starbucks on Tuesday evening while Lynn's son was taking his Kung Fu class. On Tuesday...