#DRUPAL TUTORIAL VIEWS INSTALL#
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The default homepage is also a view and it’s called Frontpage. With Views in core any type of listing is now controlled by Views.

If you’re following along make sure you’ve read and setup the Blog content type which was built in part one of the “Build a Blog in Drupal 8” series.

#DRUPAL TUTORIAL VIEWS ARCHIVE#

We’ll create a listing of blog posts for the homepage, a “Recent blog posts” block and we’ll enable Archive view which comes with Drupal but it’s disabled. In this tutorial, we’ll continue building our blog site by adding in a few custom views. Take for example the Content (admin/content) and People (admin/people) pages. Now that Views is part of core, it’s used throughout the administration section. Using the module, you can query the site’s content and display it in a block, table or page just to name a few. That’s a simple explanation, but it doesn’t give the module the respect it deserves.įor instance, you could create a page (/latest-reviews) which displays all the latest content by content type and sorted by created date.

#DRUPAL TUTORIAL VIEWS INSTALL#

Just install Drupal and start building your custom views page or block.įor people who don’t know, Views allows you to list Drupal content. No longer will you have to wait for Views to be upgraded to use the latest version of Drupal. Yes, the most installed module in Drupal is now part of core.

Just when you thought Drupal 8 couldn’t get more powerful I give to you Views in core. However, for certain situations, like when you need to group multiple fields into a specific format, overriding the default view template is one of the easiest and most straight-forward ways to get the job done.This tutorial is part of the “Build a Blog in Drupal 8” series: A lot can be done with Contextual Filters and Relationships. If not, double-check that the file has been named correctly and uploaded to the correct directory – whenever I have issues with the view not seeing the new template files, it is one of those two things about 90% of the time.īut before you start overriding each of your fields and rows, try to use the Views GUI. If the name in bold changes to the one you created, all is good. To confirm that your template is going to be used by the view, click on the “Rescan template files” button.

Save the file in your templates directory and upload.

Click on the title of the template that you’d like to override and copy the template (everything between the ““) and paste it into your editor.

InterWorks’ process is to use the very last name, so that it’s the most specific and can’t be overridden. Names farther down the list will be used before names listed first. NOTE: Views checks these names sequentially for overrides. This will bring up another overlay that will let you select a specific template.

Click on the “Theme: Information” link.

One great thing about this is that each View will give you the correct name and template for each item you may want to override. And while Views does give users a GUI to it’s SQL-writing underpinnings, each view, row, or field can be overridden using template files. When learning Drupal, it’s difficult not to encounter a situation where Views would come in handy. While Views really only does a handful of things – aggregate content – the flexibility of it is incredible. I consider Views a system within a system. We covered several topics including Nodequeues, Feed Import, the Menu system, and Views. The open-forum format allowed for specific questions to be asked and answered while allowing for all others to benefit. Web admins from each campus – Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Muskogee – and every department were invited to participate. Drupal has been on the main campus for a couple of months now and is creeping its way onto the extension campuses.

Scott and I were recently invited to Oklahoma State University to provide Drupal training for their web admins.

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