1. ADVANCED VIEWS
CONFIGURATION

2. About us!

3. Getting to know you...
• Ever manage a large site in HTML only?
• What other frameworks or CMSs have you
used?
• Ever use a custom CMS?
• Ever build your own CMS?
• What challenges did you find?

4. About us
• Drupal consulting,
development, and training
• Founded in 2007 by Alex and
Suzanne
• Help organizations build
awesome Drupal websites
with custom functionality

5. Our projects

6. INTRODUCTION:
WHY VIEWS?

7. What do we have?
• Content
• Nodes (content types)
• Taxonomy
• Menus
• Users
• Blocks
• Theme
• Modules

8. What are we missing?
• Organization of content
• Lists of content
• Related content blocks
• Fancy lists (calendars and slideshows)

9. CONTENT DISPLAY
AND ORGANIZATION
WITH VIEWS

10. Introduction to Views

11. Views: Query builder
• <?php
// Connecting, selecting database
$link = mysql_connect('mysql_host', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password')
or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_select_db('my_database') or die('Could not select database');
// Performing SQL query
$query = 'SELECT * FROM my_table';
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());
• // Printing results in HTML
// Printing results in HTML
echo "<table>n"; echo "<table>n";
while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
echo "t<tr>n"; while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result,
foreach ($line as $col_value) {
}
MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
echo "tt<td>$col_value</td>n";
echo "t</tr>n"; echo "t<tr>n";
}
echo "</table>n"; foreach ($line as $col_value) {
// Free resultset echo "tt<td>$col_value</td>n";
mysql_free_result($result);
}
// Closing connection
mysql_close($link); echo "t</tr>n";
?>
}
echo "</table>n";

12. Views wizard
Choose base table
Change types
Term filters
Simple sort

13. Views wizard
Page or block
Display settings
Add to menu

14. Views editor

15. 1. Choose what to query
Content Users Taxonomy Comments
Content title D. Schrute
adventure Wow, can't
Germany city breakwait to get
dwight
city break 8 Sept visit.
J. Halpert
Spain sailing
joe Me too!
shopping 8 Sept

16. 2. Filter to Limit selection
• Limit a set of data to display
Title Type Author
Beppu City guide Eddie
Lost luggage Article Jill
FAQ Basic page Joe
Paris City guide Susan
What we do Basic page Saba
About us Basic page Saba

17. 2. Filter to Limit selection
• Another example, filtering by author.
Title Type Author
Beppu City guide Eddie
Lost luggage Article Jill
FAQ Basic page Joe
Paris City guide Susan
What we do Basic page Saba
About us Basic page Saba

18. 2. Filter to Limit selection
• ... or limit by content type
Title Type Author
Beppu City guide
City guide Eddie
Lost luggage Article Jill
FAQ Basic page Joe
Paris City guide
City guide Susan
What we do Basic page Saba
About us Basic page Saba

19. 3. Specify formatting

20. 4. Choose a display
Web Page Title
http://example.com/city-guides Google
Page
display
(banner)
City guides Sign up
Beppu name
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and
Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at
the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
email
Block
display
Button
Paris
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and
Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at
City guides by topic
the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. Budget
City break
Mali Family
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and
Luxury
Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at Sun and sea
the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.

21. Related content

22. Contextual filter
• example.com/user/102 or example.com/member/eddie
• Where are we on the site? What path?
Eddie
Eddie likes to travel with his mandolin. Or sometimes the
ukelele. In a pinch, he'll travel with just his tambourine.
By this contributor...
Best in Beppu
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and
Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at
the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
Paris excursions
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and
Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at
the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
Mali music

23. About the Author

24. Our example
• When viewing a course with the term
“Philosophy...” it should display other
content with the same term.
• Build each view per term? No.
• Use “Contextual filter” to pull in the related
content”.

25. Unit 1.3 - Exercise
• Display related content across the site
• Learn about ways to extend views.

26. Views styles

27. Views styles
Row style
View style

28. Views styles
Unformatted list - Teasers

29. Views styles
Unformatted list - Fields
Title
Trimmed body
Thumbnail image

30. Views styles
Table - Fields

31. Views styles
HTML list - Fields

32. Altering Field Output

33. Altering Field Output

34. Altering Field Output

35. Altering Field Output

36. ADVANCED VIEWS

37. Filtering options

38. How can you filter
content?
Choose a field to filter by

39. Operators for Filters
Does the field exist?
Is the field equal a certain value?

40. Allowing users to filter
content

41. Modules for Filtering
• Better Exposed Filters
• Provides more options for exposed filters
• Views Dependent Filters
• Exposed filters that show up when a
particular option is selected
• Date Views
• Filters based on date fields

42. Views relationships

43. Views Relationships
• Join a Views result to a related record, so you
can show fields from that record
• Examples:
• The author of a node
• A related node, linked to with an entity
reference field
• The translation of a node

44. Add Relationship to an
Instructor Node
Course Instructor
Course Title Name
Department Field Specialty Field
Course No. Field Entity Reference
Instructor Field

45. Add Relationship to an
Instructor Node

46. Adding a Relationship

47. Extending Views:
Views Displays

48. Extending Views
• Views Slideshow
• Views Accordion
• Calendar

49. Configuring Views Styles

50. Views Slideshow

51. Views Slideshow Config

52. Views Accordion

53. Calendar

54. Calendar Config

55. Administrative Views

56. Administrative Views
Modules
• Draggable Views
• Administrative Views
• Views Bulk Operations

57. Administrative Views

58. Draggable Views

59. Draggable Views

60. Views Bulk Operations

61. More Views Features

62. Previewing Output

63. Viewing the Query

64. Exporting Views

65. Views Attachments

66. Theme Information

67. Theme Information

68. Q+A