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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

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"Okay, Jackson, are you ready to learn more about Views?" Lynn asked Jackson as he brought a new toy filled with catnip to play with while he hung out with her as she worked. He was busy chewing on the toy. "I hope you are enjoying that catnip mouse; let's stick to toys and not find any more real mice."

"We've pretty much covered the first column of the Views edit screen: FORMAT, FIELDS, FILTER and SORT. I guess we did skip over TITLE, but this isn't very exciting; it changes the title for the selected display, so this would be the page title for a page or a block title for a block. It's pretty straightforward."

"Let's move on to the second column of the Views edit screen. When I select a page display, I see different settings in the top section than if I select a block display. It would appear that each display type has a different set of settings. So why not explore them all, right, Jackson?" Jackson wasn't paying attention.

"What do you say we go through the display types...