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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, we have looked at using contributed modules to extend the kinds of displays that Views can create. Our first was the classic rotating carousel. Then we built a Google map using data from our properties content type. Next, infinite scrolling was used to create a gallery of properties that expands as you scroll down the page, much like Facebook and other common sites. After that, we created an expandable FAQ page that includes pictures using the Views Accordion module. Then we used Views Field View to insert a list of open houses into a view of properties, including the open houses on the property they went with instead of all at the end like when we used a Views attachment display. Finally, we created a calendar of open houses using the Calendar module, with help from the Views Template module. Views is extremely versatile and extendable. If there is some unique way that you want to display your content, it is likely that there is a contributed module to extend Views...