VIEWS CANSHOW THAT!

D R U PA L C A M P C H AT TA N O O G A7 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 5

INTRODUCTIONS

Who are YOU?

I am:@AdelleFrank

…and I love DONUTS!

Views can SHOW that!

PRACTICE: CAN VIEWS SHOW THAT?

CAN VIEWS SHOW A CALENDAR?

Views can SHOW that!

CAN VIEWS SHOW A CALENDAR?

CAN VIEWS SHOW A SLIDESHOW?

Views can SHOW that!

CAN VIEWS SHOW A SLIDESHOW?

CAN VIEWS SHOW STAFF PROFILES?

Views can SHOW that!

CAN VIEWS SHOW STAFF PROFILES?

CAN VIEWS SHOW FEATURED NEWS?

Views can SHOW that!

CAN VIEWS SHOW FEATURED NEWS?

WHAT DO YOU THINK VIEWS CAN SHOW?

CAN VIEWS SHOW THAT?

Views can SHOW that!

THE DATABASE AS RESTAURANT

Database = Blogs, Profiles, Reviews: stored in tables.

Restaurant = Many kinds of food,stored and served in different ways.

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.

VIEWS IS LIKE A BOX OF … DONUTS

Selection = Case of donuts View = Blog posts tagged as “drupal”

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.

Insert Demo here

DEMO

CAN VIEWS SHOW THAT?

Views can SHOW that!

• 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

CREDITS

Huge thanks to:

• David Needham for his inspiring Intro to Views presentation at DrupalCon LA https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/views-beginners-drupal-8

• http://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/drupal-101-intro-to-views/

• https://www.acquia.com/blog/totally-beginner-tutorial-views-drupal-7

Slides will be posted to

adellefrank.com