Learn how to use Views to create lists of content and control how content is displayed throughout your website using a point-and-click interface.
Views is a query builder, used to select, sort and display content in various ways. Whether you're building a list of blog posts or a complex events calendar, Views is an essential tool when building a Drupal website. In this training, you'll see how powerful Views is, and how you can extend it to create a custom user experience. If youʼre familiar with database administration, Views is going to seem very familiar. Itʼs an easy way to build fairly complex queries using a point-and-click tool.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Create dynamic lists of content, displayed as HTML lists and tables
- Create lists of taxonomy terms, users and comments, sorted in various ways
- Use Views' contextual filters and relationships to build more powerful and useful lists of data
- Change the format of Views results
- Extend Views by adding modules to display content in different ways
Pre-requisites:
To get the most out of the course, it's essential that you have some Drupal site building or administrative experience.
Instructor:
This class will be taught by Suzanne Kennedy from Evolving Web