Drupal cck views panels

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Drupal cck views panels

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Bernard Szlachta (NobleProg Ltd)

Drupal cck views panels

Drupal cck views panels Training Materials

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You ⌘

• How many of you used Drupal?
• How many of you used Drupal for longer than a year?
• How many of you know PHP/MySQL
• How many of you developed for Durpal
• How many of you know what is the maximum velocity of an unladen swallow?

CCK ⌘

• Label and Widget can be change later
• Field name and type cannot be changed later

Shared Fields ⌘

• Allows you to see them in one column in a view or reuse the same code

Allowed Values ⌘

• One value per line key|label.
• key is the value that will be stored in the database, and it must match the field storage type (e.g. text)
• The label is optional, and the key will be used as the label if no label is specified.

Exercise ⌘

• Create a course_outline content type
• Add field duration as decimal
• Add field course_type as text, widget dropdown
• Course type should be multichoice list:
  • evening|Evening
  • all_day|All Day
  • weekday|Weekday
  • weekend|Weekend

Views ⌘

• Store information what you want to select
• The same view can generate different queries as the underlying tables do change (e.g. shared fields)
• Can be stored in the:
  • database (Normal)
  • code (Default)
  • both (Overriden)

Views Displays ⌘

• Attachment
• Feed
• Page
  • have a url and can have menu item
• Block
  • Exposed as a block
• Content Pane (Views Content Pane module)
  • Used for embedding in a panel

In order to override a setting for a display, click Override setting

Exercise ⌘

• Create a view course_outlines
• Add 'Node: Title', 'field_duration' to the view
• Create a menu item in the primary menu

Exposed Filters ⌘

• Allow users to change the rules of filtering

CCK Relations ⌘

• Node Reference
  • relation between a node and a node
• User Reference
  • relation between a node and a user (one direction only)
• Modules: entityreference, relation

LAB ⌘

• Install 'entityreference' module
• Create 'course_date' content type
• Create a node reference field in 'course_date' content called 'course_outline_ref'
  • select Course Outline in the Content types that can be referenced
  • required
  • number of values: 1
• Create a couple of course dates for outlines and check whether you can navigate from a 'course_date' to a 'course_outline'

course_outline_ref field ⌘

Panels ⌘

• Allow to set layout of the page
• Can embed every possible thing in Drupal (nodes, views, minipanels, blocks, cck fields, comments, files and more)

Lab ⌘

• Enable panels, page_manager and ctools modules
• Create a new Panel Page
  • Administer/Pages/Add custom page

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Panel Variants ⌘

• The same URL different layouts and content
• Selection rules can be complex and based on:
  • role/permission
  • language
  • node type
  • URL string path
  • Anything really (through PHP code)

Exercise ⌘

• Anonymous user should see just login form on the front page
• Steps
  • Create selection rule for existing variant of the home page panel (User: role == Authenticated)
  • Create new variant with selection rule (User: role == Anonymous)
  • Rename Variants
  • Set up a new panel and test it

Home Page Visibility ⌘

Node Template ⌘

• Allow override node pages (node/1)
• Can have different variants (usually for each node type)

Lab ⌘

• Override the Course Outline view to show a course outline the way below

Lab Steps part 1 ⌘

• In Admin/Panels enable Node template
• Edit node template
• Add variant (name it Course Outline View)
• Tick Selection Rules and Create Variant
• In Selection Rules choose Node: type = Course Outline
• Follow the instruction and click Create variant button then save

Lab Steps part 2 ⌘

• When you edit the variant, add each field in appropriate region in panels
  • Note the Node: content - entire node

Views Arguments ⌘

• Allow to filter based on
  • from the url
  • from the context (panels)

Passing Argument Via Panels ⌘

Lab Steps ⌘

• Clone a view course_dates to course_dates_on_course_outline
• Add an argument field_course_outline
• In display content pane in Pane settings the Argument input: Edit set to From context, Required context: Node ID
• Edit panel and add content and View panes, course_dates_on_course_outline
• Choose argument Node being viewed

Views Relationship ⌘

• Show Course Date, Duration

Exercises ⌘

• Create a view showing field_course_date and field_duration
• Steps
  • Create a view CourseDatesDurationVenue
  • Filter by Node: type = Course Date
  • Create a relation field_course_outline
  • Add field_course_date
  • Add field_duration, use Course Outline relation

Exercise ⌘

• Add the field phone_number to the Venue content type
• Fill out phone for existing venues
• Add the Phone number to the CourseDatesDurationVenue view

Panels and Relations ⌘

• Add duration to the course date
• Steps
  • Create new variant for the course date in the node templates
  • Add the relation ship using node reference to course outline
  • Add duration field to the panel content

Panels relations ⌘

Exercises ⌘

Show Courses in Categories in a tabular form

• Steps
  • Create a view CourseOutlinesinCategory
    • Fields: Course Name, Durtiation
    • Argument: Taxonomy term id
    • Configure Argument Input in the Content Pane Display
  • Enable view_term template in panel pages
  • Create a variant
  • Embed the view in the variant

Course Dates on User Profile ⌘

• Create User Reference field in the Course Date, named it field_trainer
• Assign trainers for course dates
• Override user_view with panels
• Create variant
• Create view CourseDatesonUserProfile
  • Argument field_trainer
  • Fields: course_dates, course_outline
  • Configure Argument Input in Content Pane display
• Embed in the Profile panel

More Exercises

For 10 and 11 use exercises from above.

1. Create 2 connected content types related to your work(or company). It should have at least 4 different fields and one of them should referrencing somehow to the other. Create some content having those types.
2. Create a view with your content type. Add filtering by one of the fields and expose this filter to the users. Add ordering via headers in table.
3. Create view which will show all info about "piece of music" content. Order it by the time of creation descending (from the oldest to the newest).
   • Filter it by kind of music and allow users to use this filter.
   • It should be a table of fields.
   • It shouldn't use any pager.
   • It should show some info about the authors:
     • musician's age,
     • musician desc.
   • It should have at least 30 items to display.
   • It should have link in menu navigation.
   • Make the table sort-able by Album Release Date (Descending by default).
   • Trim the value of Musician Desc to 20 characters.
   • Make sure the labels of table columns are the same as fields labels.
   • Add header and footer to view.
4. Create view with swimmers.
5. Create view with clothes - it should use jump menu.
6. Create a custom panel and set it as your default home page. Use 2 variants. They should depend on themes (Mayo and Bartik). One of them should show only user login for anonymous users.
7. Make view News located in left sidebar:
   • it should be a grid with only titles of nodes
   • order it by date of creation, descending (from the oldest one to newest)
8. Create a view with musicians. It should also display titles of their songs. Create different instances of view (page, block, rss, exporting stuff - csv, etc)
9. Make block with Musicians visible only for anonymous, in every available theme, and only on home page (it should be visible in the right sidebar).
10. Make user profile as a panel.
11. Make editing of one of content types created by you as a panel.
12. For one of your own content types create proper group fields and make them gathered into another accordion group.
13. Use context and relationship in the panel.
14. Use relationship and argument(s) in the view.
15. Create view with the content you've already created (use content types related to your work/company) - use info from both content types but only one should be used as a filter, the second one should be added via entity reference.