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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Marshall
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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

3.4 (7)
By: 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 (13 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
A short history
Drupal is always changing
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
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1. Up and Running with Views
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1. Up and Running with Views
Drupal 8 is here, should I upgrade?
Looking at the Views administration page
Views settings
Adapting an existing View
Debugging – Live Preview is your friend
Summary
2
2. Views from Scratch
2. Views from Scratch
A first try at listing the available properties
The anatomy of a view
Showing the Watchdog logs
Summary
3
3. Sorting and Filtering
3. Sorting and Filtering
Changing the sort order
Filtering results
Exposed filters – giving power to your visitors
Summary
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4. Contextual Filters
4. Contextual Filters
Contextual filters are filters in a different place
Using default values to "create" options
Summary
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5. Relationships
5. Relationships
Fixing the neighborhood property listing title
What are relationships?
Adding realtor information to the property listings
Adding an open house attachment display to the property listings view
Other relationship considerations
Summary
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6. Add-on Modules
6. Add-on Modules
Adding a rotating carousel to the front page
Mapping content
Doing away with pagers – creating an infinite page
Expandable accordions hide and show content
Putting one View inside another
Adding a calendar of open houses
Summary
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7. Field Rewrites
7. Field Rewrites
Linking to anything
Changing how fields are output
If-then-else conditional rewrites
Summary
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8. Customizing Views
8. Customizing Views
Display settings
Header, Footer, and No Results Behavior
Pager
Adding No Results and Footer to Available Property Listings
Summary
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9. Advanced View Settings
9. Advanced View Settings
Becoming advanced
Changing the SQL queries generated by views
Making Views go fast
Summary
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10. Theming Views
10. Theming Views
Time to theme
Changing generated HTML and CSS from the Views UI
When the HTML code needs to change
Going live and accolades
Summary
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A. Content Types for a Sample Site
A. Content Types for a Sample Site
Property
Property Owner
Realtor
Open House
County Taxonomy
Neighborhood Taxonomy
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Index
Index

Chapter 1. Up and Running with Views

Drupal 8 was released on November 19, 2015, after almost 5 years of development by more than 3,000 members of the Drupal community. Drupal 8 is the largest refactoring in the project's history.

One of the most important changes in Drupal 8 was the inclusion of the most popular contributed module, Views. Similar to including CCK in Drupal 7, adding Views to Drupal 8 influenced how Drupal operates, as many of the administration pages, such as the content list page, are now views that can be modified or extended by site builders.

Every site builder needs to master the Views module to really take advantage of Drupal's content structuring capabilities by giving site builders the ability to create lists of content formatted in many different ways. A single piece of content can be used for different displays, and all the content in each view is dynamically created when a visitor comes to a page. It is so important, it was the only contributed module included in the Acquia Site Builder certification examination for Drupal 7.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Looking at the Views administration page
  • Reviewing the general Views module settings
  • Modifying one of the views from Drupal core to create a specialized administrative page

    Note

    Drupal is always changing

    This book was started just after Drupal 8.0.0 was released and has been finished shortly before Drupal 8.1.0 is about to be released. In between are 8.0.1 through 8.0.5, a new release about every two weeks. With each release, a number of issues are resolved. Some of those issues affect how Views operate or the wording of some screen text or prompts. The evolution of Drupal and Views will continue long after this book is done. As a result, it is very likely that some screens and prompts described here might not match your copy of Drupal exactly. The differences are minor changes in wording to improve the understandability or clarify the meaning. Do not be alarmed if there are small differences between this book and Views when you use it. These differences will be mostly cosmetic, although it is possible a new option might appear.

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