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00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Displaying Contents using Views |
00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn about
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00:15 | To record this tutorial, I am using
You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
00:31 | First let us learn about Views.
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00:49 | It can select, order, filter, and present our contents, based on the criteria we define
Views are essentially Reports or Query Results as known in other software |
01:04 | For example,If you go to a library and ask the librarian for a stack of books with the following criteria:
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01:19 | where the book has 100 or more pages and the covers are red |
01:25 | You will be sent out of the library for asking that.But in Drupal, it can be done very easily with Views. |
01:34 | We have a simple 5-step process for setting up our Views.The workflow of Views is
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01:45 | Figure out your Fields
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01:53 | Now Let’s learn to create the standard Views on a simple Drupal site. |
01:53 | Now let us open our website which we created earlier. |
01:58 | Let’s learn to create the standard Views on a simple Drupal site. |
02:04 | Click on Structure, and then click on Views. |
02:09 | Drupal has many built-in Views.For example - the Content View allows administrators to administer the content. |
02:20 | Same thing with Custom block library, Files, Frontpage, People, Recent comments, Recent content, Taxonomy terms, Who’s new and Who’s online. |
02:37 | These are all Views that come with Drupal, which we can update or edit. |
02:44 | First, we will create a simple page with Teasers.It will be a landing page for our Events Content type. |
02:54 | Click Add new view and let’s name it as Events Sponsored. |
03:02 | Change the Content of type from All to Events and sorted by as Newest first. |
03:11 | Click Create a page.Leave Display format as Unformatted list of teasers. |
03:20 | This is because we’ve already set up the Teaser mode in our Manage display. |
03:26 | Check Create a menu link.Then under the Menu drop-down, choose Main navigation. |
03:35 | This will help us to see all the Events that we have added to our site. |
03:41 | Click Save and edit.Now we have access to the screen that we mentioned in the introduction. |
03:51 | This screen displays a Page, whose Format is an Unformatted list of Teasers. |
03:59 | We don’t need any fields here because we have set up our Teaser mode. |
04:05 | The FILTER CRITERIA is Published events.And the SORT CRITERIA is the publication date in descending order. |
04:16 | If we scroll down, we can see a quick preview here. |
04:21 | If you don’t like this, it’s simple to change.We’ll cover that in another tutorial. |
04:28 | For now, let us click on Save.Click on Back to site. |
04:35 | We have a new tab in the main menu called Events, with a listing of all of our Events. |
04:44 | Here are all the Event logos with different shapes and sizes. |
04:50 | We have the Event Website and the Event Date. |
04:55 | Remember, we can update this in our Teaser mode for the Events Content type, if we want to change it. |
05:04 | That’s it! This is the landing page for all of our Events. |
05:09 | One of key features in Drupal is the ability to place information
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05:19 | Previously, if we added a new Event, we would have to come out on the sidebar on every page that it’s on, and update the sidebar. |
05:31 | Now, Views updates our content automatically. |
05:36 | Click on Structure and then on Views. |
05:41 | Since we’re coming back here a lot, let’s add it to our shortcuts by clicking the star.Now click on Add new view. |
05:53 | In the View name, type Recent Events Added.This’ll be a list of the latest Events we’ve added to our site. |
06:04 | Now, change Content of type from All to Events. |
06:09 | Choose Create a block.Leave the sorted by as Newest First. |
06:18 | In Block title, type Recently Added Events, just to show that we can have a different name and title. |
06:28 | Drupal allows us to create different styles of Views.We’ll leave this as an Unformatted list of titles, with 5 Items per block. |
06:40 | Don’t check Use a pager.If we do, we will get page numbers like Page one of three, two of three, etc., at the bottom of our block. |
06:53 | Click Save and edit.Let’s look at our preview.It displays a list of titles of the most recently added Events. |
07:05 | Here, we can see that it displays a Block. FORMAT is an Unformatted list. FIELDS are the Title fields. |
07:16 | And the FILTER CRITERIA is the Published Events in descending order of their publication date. |
07:24 | Let’s click Save.This will not show up anywhere, because we haven’t placed the block yet. |
07:33 | Click on Structure, and Block layout.Let’s place the block in the Sidebar first region. |
07:43 | Click on Place block.When we scroll down, we can see the block called Recent Events Added.Click Place block. |
07:54 | Since we haven’t learnt about blocks in detail yet, we will just click Save for now.It will show up on every page. We will edit that later. |
08:06 | It’s going to appear in the order after Search.Click Save blocks. |
08:13 | Click Back to site.And we have a new block on every page that gives us the most recently added Events on our site. |
08:24 | There’s no need to configure this again.You can place it wherever you want, and it will always be up-to-date. |
08:33 | So that’s an example of a Block view using our Events Content type in publication date order. |
08:42 | With this we come to the end of this tutorial. |
08:46 | Let us summarize.In this tutorial we have learnt about
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09:01 | This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay. |
09:12 | The video at this link summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.Pls download and watch it. The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates.For more details, please write to us. |
09:29 | Spoken Tutorial Project is funded byNMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and
NVLI, Ministry of Culture Government of India. |
09:42 | This is Varsha Venkatesh signing off.Thanks for joining. |