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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
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
4
4. Contextual Filters
4. Contextual Filters
Contextual filters are filters in a different place
Using default values to "create" options
Summary
5
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
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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 6. Add-on Modules

Views has a very extensible architecture and there are a large number of contributed modules that extend the functions of views to allow many different types of displays. At the time of release of Drupal 8, a search of Drupal.org modules using the category Views resulted in 65 modules; not all are extensions and some, such as CTools, are support modules that are tagged for Views, because they are necessary for older versions of Drupal. That number climbed to 85 with Drupal 8.0.2. The number will continue to grow as modules are converted to Drupal 8 by their authors or the community. By comparison, at the time of release of Drupal 8.0.2, there were 608 Drupal 7 modules in the Views category.

In this chapter, we'll install and configure Views Slideshow to create a rotating carousel of featured property images. Then we'll build a very simple Google map using the views formatter integrated in the Drupal 8 version of the Geolocation module, since...

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