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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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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

Creating view pages and blocks


We can create a new page display by selecting the Add button from the Displays screen and then selecting Page* from the list.

Most settings will be the same as the initial Master Display you initially created. The new configuration is around how a user will be able to get to the View. There will be a new section labeled PAGE SETTINGS where we will see options for Path and Menu.

  • Path is the URL that a user can place within their browser to navigate to the View page.
  • Menu is where the new path will be attached to., such as the main menu of our site.

Path is required, so we will need to click on the link that reads No path is set and enter a new path in the dialog that opens. The path should be entered without a leading slash, for example it should be like articles and not /articles.

You can optionally add a menu link to our page. Clicking on the link that reads No menu entry will bring up a dialog where we can add one of a few different types of menu links:

Menu link...

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