Chapter 3. Displaying Content through Views
This chapter will cover the Views module and how to use a variety of its major features:
- Listing content
- Editing the default admin interfaces
- Creating a block from a View
- Utilizing dynamic arguments
- Adding a relationship in a View
- Providing an Entity Reference result View
Introduction
For those who have used Drupal previously, Views is in core for Drupal 8! If you are new to Drupal, Views has been one of the most used contributed projects for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
To briefly describe Views, it is a visual query builder, allowing you to pull content from the database and render it in multiple formats. Select administrative areas and content listings provided out of the box by Drupal are all powered by Views. ...
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