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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

Exposed filters – giving power to your visitors


Inspired by the Tiny House page, Lynn thought to herself "I wonder whether I can let visitors select the property listings that meet certain criteria and get a customized list." Remembering the experience she had while experimenting with the exposed sort and that she had noticed the Expose this filter to visitors, to allow them to change it option, she decided to make a page that included exposed filters for the number of bedrooms, square footage, price range, and neighborhood.

Lynn decided to make this selectable View another display in case she wanted to have the unfiltered option somewhere, so she clicked on the +Add button on the property listing View page and selected Page. She changed the display name from Page 3 to Selectable Page so that she could recognize it easier. She decided that the page title Available Property Listing still applied, so she didn't change it.

She clicked on Add to add a new filter criteria and typed Square into...