Adapting an existing View

Lynn will use her knowledge from using Views on her existing Drupal site, moving quickly, but we'll come back to really dig into the view edit screen in later chapters when she's building views from scratch and improving them in successive revisions.

The existing content page provided by Views is general purpose and offers lots of options, and not all these options are appropriate for all content editors. This page looks like this:

Adapting an existing View

Drupal's standard content listing page

Lynn started creating her property maintenance page by going to the Views listing page (Manage | Structure | Views) and selecting Duplicate from the OPERATIONS ...

Get Mastering Drupal 8 Views now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.