This manual provides comprehensive guidance for Mastering Drupal 8 Views, authored by Gregg Marshall and published by Packt Publishing on May 24, 2016. It is designed for web developers, designers, and administrators with a foundational understanding of Drupal 8 development and management. The content focuses on advanced Drupal 8 Views development and management, covering a wide array of operational details including the creation of automatically updated displays, map displays, image carousels, composite displays, and multi-table data views. It also details content modification capabilities, custom HTML generation, and advanced layout and formatting options such as header/footer additions and output styling to meet designer specifications.
The purpose of this manual is to equip users with the knowledge to effectively utilize and manage Drupal 8 Views. It delves into filtering and sorting functionalities, content ordering, limiting content by type or value, and filtering via URL parameters, all within the context of Drupal 8 compatibility. While primarily focused on Drupal 8, the manual also offers relevance as a useful reference for Drupal 7 users due to the inherent similarities between the Views systems in both versions. This 272-page EPUB document, written in English, serves as an essential resource for mastering complex view configurations and enhancing website functionality.
Accelerate your development process using Drupal 8 Views with this advanced, practical guide About This Book • A practical, step-by-step guide with illustrative examples to give you a clear understanding of Drupal 8 views • Get the only book on the market that talks about Drupal 8 views and their importance for developers • Get an understanding of how views work and how they help to create modular applications Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers, web designers, and website administrators who use Drupal 8, have some basic knowledge of managing and developing apps with Drupal, and who want to get an advanced, practical knowledge of views and how to leverage them in Drupal 8 applications. What You Will Learn • Create displays of content that are automatically updated when you add new content • Show maps and rotating image carousels on your site • Combine content to create composite displays using the same data in different ways • Use fields from more than one content type to create powerful views of multi-table data • Modify the field data being displayed, combining it in different ways or changing the HTML that might be normally generated • Add headers and footers above and below a views display • Make the output of your view look exactly like the designer specifies • Change the order in which a list of content is displayed, limit the content shown to only certain content types or values • Filter content using values passed to the view in the URL, making a single view work different ways In Detail 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. Style and approach This is the only advanced resource that will show you how to create, customize, and manage views in the Drupal 8 development environment. This has become more important since Drupal 8 has made views part of its core architecture.
Author: Marshall, Gregg
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Pages: 00272 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2016-05-24
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781785886966
Category: COMPUTERS / Web / Content Management Systems
Category: Computers : Web - Site Design
Category: Computers : Programming Languages - PHP
Accelerate your development process using Drupal 8 Views with this advanced, practical guide About This Book • A practical, step-by-step guide with illustrative examples to give you a clear understanding of Drupal 8 views • Get the only book on the market that talks about Drupal 8 views and their importance for developers • Get an understanding of how views work and how they help to create modular applications Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers, web designers, and website administrators who use Drupal 8, have some basic knowledge of managing and developing apps with Drupal, and who want to get an advanced, practical knowledge of views and how to leverage them in Drupal 8 applications. What You Will Learn • Create displays of content that are automatically updated when you add new content • Show maps and rotating image carousels on your site • Combine content to create composite displays using the same data in different ways • Use fields from more than one content type to create powerful views of multi-table data • Modify the field data being displayed, combining it in different ways or changing the HTML that might be normally generated • Add headers and footers above and below a views display • Make the output of your view look exactly like the designer specifies • Change the order in which a list of content is displayed, limit the content shown to only certain content types or values • Filter content using values passed to the view in the URL, making a single view work different ways In Detail 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. Style and approach This is the only advanced resource that will show you how to create, customize, and manage views in the Drupal 8 development environment. This has become more important since Drupal 8 has made views part of its core architecture.
Author: Marshall, Gregg
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Pages: 00272 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2016-05-24
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781785886966
Category: COMPUTERS / Web / Content Management Systems
Category: Computers : Web - Site Design
Category: Computers : Programming Languages - PHP
