So you know how to use Views, but feel like you're just scratching the surface. Views is a powerful module that allows you to build out complex functionality with just a few clicks of the mouse. This session will cover some of the more advanced features of the Views and take your knowledge of Views to the next level. Topics include: Changing the Results (adding more data, filtering options) Contextual Filters (Arguments) Relationships: Pulling in Related Data to Views Formatting Views and Changing the Markup Creating Administrative and Interactive Views Extending Views with Other Modules

1. VIEWS
CONFIGURATION

2. About me
• Drupal consulting,
development, and
training
• Help organizations build
@suzanne_kennedy awesome Drupal
evolvingweb.ca websites with custom
functionality

3. What Can You Do with
Views?
• Site Building Tools
• Lists of content
• A way to build pages and blocks
• Related content blocks
• Interactive Lists
• Fancy lists (calendars, slideshows, maps)
• User control of sorts/filters

4. Introduction to Views

5. 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";

6. Views Wizard
Choose base table
Change types
Term filters
Simple sort

7. Views Wizard
Page or block
Display settings
Add to menu

8. Views Editor

9. Choose What to List
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

10. Choose a Format

11. 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.

12. CHANGING THE
RESULTS

13. Filtering Results

14. Filtering Criteria
Choose a field to filter by

15. Operators for Filters
Operators
change
based on
the field
being
used to filter

16. Operators for Filters
Filter to
show only
users who
have a
picture.

17. Filtering by Date
• Use the Date Views module
Filter to only
show
results with
a start date
in the future

18. Contextual Filters

19. What are Contextual
Filters?
• Dynamic filters
• Filter content based on the context of the view
• Aka arguments
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

20. Where does the context
come from?
• The URL
• node/24
• taxonomy/term/
• Passed directly to the view
• From Panels
• In code
• PHP Code
• Add custom code snippet to determine
what argument to pass to the view (Bad)

21. Where does the context
come from?

22. Examples
• Author Page: Show content by this author
• Blog Post: Show blog posts in the same
category
• Any Node Page: Show fields from the
current node

23. About the Author

24. Related Content

25. Contextual Filters for
Content Panes

26. Views relationships

27. Views Relationships
• Join a Views result to a related record, so
you can show fields from that record

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

29. Adding a Relationship

30. Add Relationship to an
Instructor Node

31. Inverse Relationships with
Entity Reference
• Course->Instructor: Create a relationship
from your result to the referenced content
• Instructor->Course Create an inverse
relationship from the referenced content to
the referencing content

32. Other Use Cases
• Blog posts: Info about the author of a node
• Admin view of nodes: Link to translations
• Events calendar: Info about room location

33. Relationships + Contextual
Filters Examples
• Blog Post: Show the other blog posts by the
post’s author
• Course Page: Show other courses by the
course’s instructor

34. Listing more stuff
with Views

35. Choose what Views shows
Choose base table
Change types
Term filters
Simple sort

36. What else can you show
with Views?
• Aggregator items
• Solr search results
• Content Revisions
• Products
• Media
• Webform Submissions
• Files

37. Apache Solr
• Apache Solr Views Integration module

38. Webform Submissions

39. Aggregator items

40. Your Custom Data
• hook_views_data
• Tell Views about the custom data that you’ve
added with your module
• http://evolvingweb.ca/story/developing-
views-part-i-describing-your-data-views

41. Your Custom Data

42. CHANGING THE
MARKUP

43. Views Formats

44. Built-in Formats
• Table
• Unformatted List
• HTML List
• Jump List
• Grid

45. Views styles
Unformatted list - Teasers

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

47. Views styles
Table

48. Views styles
HTML list

49. Extending Views Formats
• Views Slideshow
• Views Accordion
• Calendar
• Map (GMap, Open Layers, Leaflet modules)

50. Configuring Views Styles

51. Views Slideshow

52. Views Slideshow Config

53. Views Accordion

54. Calendar

55. Building a Calendar
• Calendar provides a views template

56. Calendar Config

57. Map View

58. Altering Field Output

59. Altering Field Output

60. Altering Field Output

61. Altering Field Output

62. Theming Views
Output

63. Theme Information

64. Theme Information

65. Theme preprocess
functions for Views
mytheme_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) - generic for all views
mytheme_process_views_view(&$vars) - generic for all views
mytheme_preprocess_views_view_list(&$vars) - generic for List style views
mytheme_preprocess_views_view_field(&$vars) - generic for each field

66. INTERACTIVE VIEWS

67. Giving Users Control

68. Allowing users to filter
content

69. 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

70. Exposed Sorts
• Use a table view and expose sorts to users

71. Exposing Search
• Provide a ‘keywords’ exposed filter

72. Ajax-enabled Views
• Add Ajax for pagers, filters

73. Extending Views:
Administrative Views

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

75. Administrative Views

76. Draggable Views

77. Draggable Views

78. Views Bulk Operations

79. More Views Features

80. Previewing Output

81. Viewing the Query

82. Views in Code
Export Views
Add Views to Your Features

83. Q+A