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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

Doing away with pagers – creating an infinite page


"Okay, Jackson, the evening is still young. Let's try playing with Views Infinite Scroll," said Lynn. She searched on Drupal.org for the module, found it at https://drupal.org/project/views_infinite_scroll, and copied the .gz file link URL. Lynn used Drupal's built-in module installer to add it to her site. She then enabled the module and navigated to the Views listing page again. "I should bookmark this page—I spend so much time here."

As an experiment, she decided to use the Available Property Listing view that she had used so often. She clicked on Edit, and on the view edit screen, she made sure she was on the Page display at the top. She clicked the Duplicate Page button on the right and changed the name of the display to Infinite Scroll.

Since she was changing the pager, she presumed the module added some new options to the PAGER settings, so she clicked on Full, next to Use pager. The resulting modal looked like this:

Selecting Infinite...