Drupal 8 Views Module
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Drupal 8 Views Module
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Drupal views overview ⌘
- Intro and examples of use
- Creating a view
- Filtering a view
- Exposing filters
- Passing arguments to a view
- Views Add-on Modules
Introduction ⌘
- Extremely powerful, and one of the "killer" modules for Drupal
- In Drupal 8 it's a core module enabled by default (Views, Views UI)
- Provides an easy-to-use interface for selecting and displaying lists of content on your website
- Under the bonnet it's an SQL query to the database
Examples of how to use Views ⌘
- Displaying the most recent news articles, sorted in desc order by the date of posting
- Showing a list of company locations as a table that is sortable by clicking the table headers
- A gallery with pictures/videos
- A slideshow with any content
- Displaying a calendar
- Making list of blog postings, filterable by subject
- RSS feed which lists the most recent content
- Any kind of list that we can think of, displayed as table, etc
Creating View ⌘
- Beginning setup, Save and edit, Save
- Displays (Attachment, Block, Embed, Entity Reference, Feed, Page, other from 'add on' modules)
- View name
- Description
- View Settings
- Formats (Grid, HTML list, Table, Unformatted list, other from 'add on' modules)
- Fields, Filter Criteria, Sort Criteria
- Page Settings
- Block Settings
Filtering a view ⌘
- You may restrict what content is rendered in the view by adding filter criteria to the view display
- This page (override)
Exposing filters ⌘
- We can expose the filter to the user so they can control what content is displayed by the view
- For example we can allow users to select which terms to filter on (tags)
- "Expose this filter to visitors, to allow them to change it"
- "Filter type to expose"
- Label
- "Allow multiple selections"
Passing arguments to a view ⌘
- Allow to filter based on
- from the url
- from the context (panels)
Views Add-on Modules ⌘
- Views Slideshow (www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow)
- Calendar (www.drupal.org/project/calendar)
- JCarousel (www.drupal.org/project/jcarousel) - not ported yet
- Draggable Views (www.drupal.org/project/draggableviews)
- GMap (www.drupal.org/project/gmap)
- Views data export (www.drupal.org/project/views_data_export)
Views and relationships ⌘
- Displaying data from two nodes in one row (e.g. page title and authors date of birth)
- Using relationships in filters
Analysing and Searching Data ⌘
- Views Bonus Pack
- Views Fast Search
- View Calc
Dynamic Reports ⌘
- Filtering date range
- Charts
- Summaries, sum, average, min, max, etc...
- Calculated fields
- Cross table reports
Exporting and importing views ⌘
- Exporting a view
- Importing a view
- Hard coding a view in your module
Exporting views data ⌘
- Exporting data to Microsoft Excel (CVS)
- Exporting data to Microsoft Word document and other formats
