14. THE DATABASE AS RESTAURANT
Database = Blogs, Profiles,
Reviews: stored in tables.
Restaurant = Many kinds of food,
stored and served in different ways.
15. RECIPES & FIELDS
Kind of Food = Donut (a recipe)
Ingredients/Characteristics =
• dough
• shape
• filling
• topping
Content Type (Entity) = Blog post
Fields =
• title
• image
• tags
• date
• etc.
16. VIEWS IS LIKE A BOX OF … DONUTS
Selection = Case of donuts View = Blog posts tagged as “drupal”
17. DONUTS TO BLOGS TO VIEWS
Step Donuts Views
1 Select which Donuts match your market Filters (Contextual) &
Access
2 You could also include other kinds of food Relationships
3 Choose a Container Display
4 Organize them in that display case Sort criteria
5 Change all the prices at same time, or remove
stale ones
Operations
6 Decide which information and how to
advertise/style it
Formats, Fields, View
Modes, Page settings, etc.
20. • Working with Views in D8 https://www.drupal.org/node/1912118
• http://www.slideshare.net/AcquiaInc/views-minicourse-part-ii-
creating-flexible-views-with-drupal-7
• https://drupalwatchdog.com/volume-3/issue-1/views-rewrites
• https://drupalwatchdog.com/volume-1/issue-1/attachments-no-
muss-no-fuss-views-upgrade
• https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/vdc-
roadmap
• https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/viewception-three-levels-
deep.html
FOR MORE INFORMATION
21. CREDITS
Huge thanks to:
• David Needham for his inspiring
Intro to Views presentation at
DrupalCon LA
https://events.drupal.org/losangel
es2015/sessions/views-beginners-
drupal-8
• http://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/
drupal-101-intro-to-views/
• https://www.acquia.com/blog/tota
lly-beginner-tutorial-views-drupal-7
Slides will be posted to
adellefrank.com
Notas del editor
Sometimes called Entity Types (only matters so you can understand “entity reference”)