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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

Summary


In this chapter, Lynn built a simple table of properties for sale, displaying the address and asking price, number of bedrooms, square footage, and neighborhood. Jim explained the various terms that Views uses to define a view: View Type, display, display type, and Display Contents, going through each option for these terms and the possible uses. Finally, Lynn built a view of bad links, adding both a page and a block display using another table Display Format for the page and an unformatted list Display Format for the block.

In the next chapter, we'll extend the properties list to have better sorting and filtering, including a multilevel sort, and use exposed filters to let site visitors customize the information being displayed, making the site interactive instead of full of static content.