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Views Demystified Rain Breaw Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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Views DemystifiedRain Breaw
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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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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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