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Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Views
About me
• Drupal consulting, development, and training
• Help organizations build awesome Drupal websites with custom functionality
@suzanne_kennedy
evolvingweb.ca
Introduction to Views
What is Views?
Fields
Sorts
Filters
View
Taxonomy
city break
CommentsUsers
D. SchruteGermany
J. HalpertSpain
adventure
city break
sailing
shopping
dwight8 Sept
Wow, can't wait to get visit.
joe8 Sept
Me too!
Content
Content title
Data
Views BasicsTaxonomy
city break
CommentsUsers
D. SchruteGermany
J. HalpertSpain
adventure
city break
sailing
shopping
dwight8 Sept
Wow, can't wait to get visit.
joe8 Sept
Me too!
Content
Content title
Choose what to list
Choose a format
Choose a display type
Unformatted List Table
Add filters and sorts
Website Header Block Display
Page Display
Choose What to List
Taxonomy
city break
CommentsUsers
D. SchruteGermany
J. HalpertSpain
adventure
city break
sailing
shopping
dwight8 Sept
Wow, can't wait to get visit.
joe8 Sept
Me too!
Content
Content title
Add Filters & Sorts
Sort by title
Sort by post date
Filter by content typeArticles Job Postings
Jan 10
March 16
April 6
April 28
Ascending Descending
Jan 10
March 16
April 6
April 28
Ascending
A
Z
Z
A
Descending
Choose a FormatUnformatted HTML List Ordered List
Table
Ordered List
Calendar Map
Choose a Display
Website Header Block Display
Page Display
RSS Feed Display
Attachment Display
Anatomy of a View
ArticlesWelcome to the articles page.
Title
Header
Row
First | Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next | Last Pager
Results
Anatomy of a View
ArticlesWelcome to the articles page.
Title
Header
Row
First | Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next | Last Pager
Results
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 HTMLecho "<table>\n";while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { echo "\t<tr>\n"; foreach ($line as $col_value) { echo "\t\t<td>$col_value</td>\n"; } echo "\t</tr>\n";}echo "</table>\n";
// Free resultsetmysql_free_result($result);
// Closing connectionmysql_close($link);?>
• // Printing results in HTMLecho "<table>\n";while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { echo "\t<tr>\n"; foreach ($line as $col_value) { echo "\t\t<td>$col_value</td>\n"; } echo "\t</tr>\n";}echo "</table>\n";
Views Wizard
Choose base tableChange typesTerm filtersSimple sort
Views Wizard
Page or blockDisplay settingsAdd to menu
Views Editor
CHANGING THE MARKUP
Choose a FormatUnformatted HTML List Ordered List
Table
Ordered List
Calendar Map
Choose the right format
Built-in Formats• Table• Unformatted List• HTML List• Jump List• Grid
Use grids for visual data
Use tables for tabular data
Display ‘Fields’ for more Control
Change the row style
Row style setting
Row Styles
Fields ContentSelect the exact fields that
you want to displaySelect the view mode to use
Select a row style (content or fields)
Change the markup for fields in configuration
Altering Field Output
Exclude fields and rewrite results
Altering Field Output
Altering Field Output
Use Field Formatters
http://www.builtinchicago.org/community/spotlight-videos
Use custom view modes
Define custom View modes with Display Suite
Add multiple displays to the same View
Multiple Displays
Add displaysAdd displays
Override Settings
Select to change settings for the current display or all displays
Use attachments to make a ‘featured item’
Group results for easy scanning
Select grouping field
Use Views to Create RSS Feeds
Attach a Feed Display
Link a block to a page display
Link a block to a page
Link display setting
FILTERING AND SORTING
Add Filters & Sorts
Sort by title
Sort by post date
Filter by content typeArticles Job Postings
Jan 10
March 16
April 6
April 28
Ascending Descending
Jan 10
March 16
April 6
April 28
Ascending
A
Z
Z
A
Descending
Adding FiltersAdd something to filter by
Configure it
Filter by whether a field exists
Operators for Filters
Filter to show onlyusers who have a picture.
Use exposed filters to let users filter content
Exposing a filter
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
Use exposed filters for search
Exposing Search• Provide a ‘keywords’ exposed filter
Exposing Search
Display content in a table and expose sorts
Exposed Sorts• Use a table view and expose sorts to users
Exposed Sorts
Use the Date Views module
Upcoming Events View
Filtering by Date
Filter to only show results with a start date in the future
USING CONTEXTUAL FILTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Contextual Filters: Page
Website Header
Page Display
Alias: category/tags/drupal
Drupal System Path: taxonomy/term/1Content About ‘Drupal’Views Configuration: taxonomy/term/%
URL: evolvingweb.ca/category/tags/drupal
Contextual Filters: Page
Add a contextual filter
Configure it
Contextual Filters: Block
Website HeaderBlock Display
Alias: content/blog-post-title
Drupal System Path: node/1
URL: evolvingweb.ca/content/blog-post-title
Node 1 Content
Tags for Node 1
Contextual Filters: Block
Add a contextual filter
Configure it
Use contextual filters to show related content
Field in Separate Block
View showing the technology field. Uses contextual filter to show only data for current node.
Related Media Block
View showing the ‘Related Videos’ field. Uses contextual filter to show only data for current node.
Use contextual filters to exclude results
Exclude current node
Exclude arguments
EXTENDING VIEWS
Setup Views for administrators
Administrative Views
Draggable Views
Draggable Views
Views Bulk Operations
Use Views & Apache Solr
Apache Solr• Apache Solr Views Integration module
Display more data with Views
What else can you show with Views?
• Aggregator items• Solr search results• Content Revisions• Products• Media• Webform Submissions• Files
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
Your Custom Data
Use Views Slideshow for dynamic rotators
Views Slideshow
Views Slideshow Config
Use the Calendar Module
Calendar
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/event-calendar
Building a Calendar• Calendar provides a views template
Maps!
WORKING WITH VIEWS
Preview Output
Previewing Output
Export Your Views
Views in CodeExport Views
Add Views to Your Features
Use the ‘Theme Information’ link
Theme Information
Theme Information
Upcoming Views Training
Ottawa - May 13th http://drupal-views-training-ottawa-may13.eventbrite.com
Portland - May 20th http://portland2013.drupal.org/node/3718
