Views DemystifiedRain Breaw

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What is Views?Views is a module that you can use to quickly create defined lists of content for your site.

How those lists look/display, how they are accessed, and their limitations are up to:! !

your imagination your budget your time

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What can Views do? Replace the front page with your own displays.

Replace the taxonomy displays with your own.

List of users for a community-style site.

Specific content and exposed sorting.

Special RSS Feeds / displays.

Restricted Views for site managers (mention VBO)

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Customize Front Page

cavotes.org

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Replace Term PagesYou can do this, instead of... Living with the defaults.

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Lists of Users

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Specific Content w/ Sorting

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Specific Content w/ Sorting

cavotes.org

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Special RSS Feeds

cavotes.org Issues Only

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Restricted Access Views

publicaffairs.ucla.edu comment admin view

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Views Slideshow

manifestingme.com - IT ROTATES!

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Video Player w/ MediaFront

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Step 1: Install & EnableDownload and Install both:

Views - drupal.org/project/views Advanced Help - drupal.org/project/advanced_help

Visit the Module page to enable needed modules: D7: yoursite.com/admin/modules D6: yoursite.com/admin/build/modules

Modules to enable include:Views, Views UI, Advanced Help (+)

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Step 1: Install & EnableOther essential basic modules for great easy Views:

Token Taxonomy Link Date CCK (D6 only, in core for D7) ImageCache (D6 only, in core for D7) Views Or (D6 only, in core for D7)

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Step 2: Looking at ViewsThe Views management page:

D7: yoursite.com/admin/structure/views D6: yoursite.com/admin/build/views

Letʼs take a look and see whatʼs there...

The easiest way to understand how Views worksis to play with clones of the Default Views.

Letʼs look at the Default Archive View together...

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Step 2: Looking at ViewsA quick overview of the UI in D7.

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Step 3: Create a ViewStart with the Defaults & Preview

Filters - What types of stuff do you want to show?

Fields - What elements of the content do you want to show? Can we easily make them look better?

Basic & Style Settings, Header, Footer, Empty Text

Sorting

Exposed Filters

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Step 4: Create DisplaysNow you have your defaults - how do users see them?

Page Display

Blocks

Attachment Displays

RSS Feeds

Additional Row Styles from Other Contrib Modules

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If We Have Time...As you become more comfortable with Views, youʼll definitely be using:

Arguments (Want to turn a Vocabulary into an Index?)

Relationships (Think about the functionality you used to vote for sessions.)

Expose Filters in Blocks

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Warnings / Reminders: Be careful about Defaults and Overrides!

(D7 - click the correct Save button!) (D6 - if it is italic, you are editing the defaults!)

Your View settings do not save until you SAVE.

Include “Published -> Yes” if you do not want unpublished nodes in your display.

Donʼt clutter your view with unnecessary items. Remember that you are building a query!

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Additional Modules:For Drupal 7

Views Bulk Operations Calendar MediaFront

Suggestions?

Letʼs start the list here: #d7views

For Drupal 6

Views Rotator (easy!) Views Slideshow

Views Accordion Views Bulk Operations Views Bonus Pack Calendar Views Or MediaFront

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More Ways to Learn 2 hour video from DrupalCampLA 2009:

sunrainproductions.com/drupalcampla/views-demystified

Views 2 Unofficial Tutorials: drupal.org/node/322506

Awesome tutorial from Matt Petrowsky (Drupal 6)gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-views-tutorial

Using Drupal from OʼReilly

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Rain Breaw@sunrainprodswww.SunRainProductions.com

On GDO and IRC: “rainbreaw”

Views Demystified

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What did you think?

Locate this session on the DCC website:http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions

Click the “Take the Survey” link.

Thanks!

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