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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Customized lists of contents


When we first install Drupal, it provides us with an initial View for the homepage that lists all content in reverse chronological order. In most cases, this is not sufficient to expose all the content on a site, so we will end up creating several other Views.

Let's begin by creating a basic list of articles.

Start by navigating to /admin/structure/views/add or by selecting Structure-Views from the Admin toolbar and then clicking the button labeled Add new view.

The most common use case is to have a View that outputs content, that is, nodes, of a particular type. However, you can create Views on any type of entity or other table that is exposed to Views. This includes users and taxonomy terms, but also files, comments, blocks, node revisions, and log entries.

We are going to start with a basic View of contents showing a list of articles. Enter the machine name of articles and select a content type of Article, and then click the button labeled Save and edit.

You will...

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