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Learning Drupal 8

You're reading from   Learning Drupal 8 Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168751
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Basic Concepts 4. Getting Started with the UI 5. Basic Content 6. Structure 7. Advanced Content 8. Configuration 9. Users and Access Control 10. Optional Features 11. Reports 12. Extending Drupal 13. Theming Drupal 14. Getting Support Index

Working with the Views module


You are now in a good position to start investigating how to the use the Views module to create carefully filtered and organized listings of content that are organized just as you want.

Creating a Views-powered News page

To create a new View, visit the Manage | Structure | Views page:

You will see a list of all the existing views, some of which are active and some disabled:

View wizard

The view wizard will help you create new views more quickly by guiding you through the common setup steps.

Creating a new view

Next, click on the +Add new view button and you will be taken into the Views wizard. We'll keep this explanation simple to start with by concentrating only on the elements of this screen that are essential to build the News page view.

Later in this chapter, we will go into more detail about the finer points of the Views wizard. Name the new View News and filter the content to the Article type.

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At this point, you may be forgiven for thinking that you can also...

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