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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

Becoming advanced


The next day, Lynn picked up the phone and called Jim. "Hi, Jim", she said when he answered.

"Hi Lynn, what can I do for you?"

Revisiting Header/Footer options

Lynn set the stage by saying, "I think I'm getting pretty comfortable with Drupal 8, especially with the Views module. I went over the middle column of the Views edit screen and understand most of the settings, although some of the options for header/footer don't seem to be very useful. I presume that's just because I'm not an expert."

Jim responded, "I'd say you've become an expert in the last few weeks. To be honest, I wonder about some of these options myself. I presume that they are a result of the way almost everything has become an entity in Drupal 8, and once they exposed the use cases that made sense, the rest just came along for a ride. That being said, I'm sure someone will eventually find a use for them."

"One thing I wish you could do in Headers and Footers is have entities with fields and then use the same...