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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

Listing testimonials with a view


You are now going to create another view, and this time to list all your testimonials.

In the next section, you will also see just one example of the type of customizations that you effect on a view—in this case, how to group testimonials according to the Work area(s) that they relate to.

As you have already seen, the Views module is a very accessible tool for querying and presenting site content, and even the core version provides you with a range of options for providing both pre-filtered, pre-sorted, and user-filterable lists in a variety of formats.

Creating a grouped view

This view will list a number of testimonials nodes together under a heading of E-Commerce, another under Consultancy and then some more under Training as illustrated in the following screenshot:

This time around, we'll return to using a Page view again rather than a block because we don't have an existing Testimonials page into which to embed a block anyway.

Starting with a page view is also...

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