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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


This chapter completes describing all the standard features of Views, those contained in columns one and two of the view edit screen. So far, we have covered View Types, displays, field options, filter and sorting options, display settings, headers, footers, no results behavior, and pagers. We also covered relationships and contextual filters from the third, advanced column.

In the next chapter, we'll finish covering view options with the rest of the advanced column. In the next chapter, we'll look at an option to put the exposed filter in a block for more flexibility in their placement on the page. We'll also work through the fields under OTHER, Views' catchall group of obscure and relatively seldom-used options. However, they do offer some capabilities that are extremely powerful when you need them. Many site builders never need any of these settings, but knowing they are there and what they do can help you as you move to advanced displays using views.