Turbo-charge your Views power with add-on modules! Win PRIZES! Defeat common points of Views confusion! CONTROL how your Drupal content displays! SMALL PRINT DISCLAIMERS: No coding required. A rollicking good time is not guaranteed (but it's highly likely). Novice and Intermediate Drupal users welcome.

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@AdelleFrank
#USGRockEagle13
October 25, 2013
AdelleFrank.com

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Prizes & Volunteers
Slides will be available to download
Don’t need to know Drupal or SQL
No Code – hurray!
Practice:

3. Why this matters to YOU
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4. What the heck is Drupal?
Hi,
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5. What the heck is Views?
Seeing your “stuff” in different ways
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6. Unicorns frolicking?
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7. Table to sort and export?
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8. Do YOU use Views?
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9. Tip #1: Jargon & Obfuscation
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Fields (data chunks)
Filter Criteria (narrow)
Sort Criteria (set order)
Contextual Filters
(where am I?)
• Relationships
(not from around here)
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10. Photo gallery or Directory?
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11. Tip #2: Choose Wisely
Plan how to Name & Tag your Views
so you can easily Scan and Sort
them when you have
a LONG LIST
(because you WILL one day).
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12. Tags as select lists?
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13. Tip #3: “Companion”…modules
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Views data export
Administration views
Views bulk operations*
Entity reference
EVA
Views Field View
Better Exposed Filters
Others…?

14. “My” stuff?
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15. Tip #4: Not playing nicely
(with other modules)
Beware modules that aren’t
as widely used or
as fully integrated,
they may not work well.
•Field Collections
•Webform
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16. Learn MORE (Works Cited-ish)
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Best Views explanation EVER:http
://drupalwatchdog.com/1/1/what-is-this-views-thing-and-why-do-i-need-it
Acquia Views tutorial
– http://www.acquia.com/blog/totally-beginner-tutorial-views-drupal-7
More explanations of features in Views:
http://drupalwatchdog.com/1/1/whats-new-in-views-3
NodeOne Views/Rules Tutorials:
– http://nodeone.se/en/taming-the-beast-learn-views-with-nodeone
Code Karate Rules & Entity Reference tutorials:
– http://codekarate.com/daily-dose-of-drupal/drupal-7-entity-referencemodule
GT Drupal group (shares a few how to documents and bits of code):
– http://drupal.gatech.edu

17. What did I forget to mention?
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18. Standard AdelleFrank.com DISCLAIMER
This material is for entertainment and recreational purposes only, and any accidental
learning or instruction that occurs is outside of its scope and may not be prosecuted.
Any resemblance to infomercials or recent first year convocation speeches, real or
imagined, is pure undiluted coincidence. It is IN NO WAY exaggerated, over-sold
or subject to hyperbolic disproportionalism. May be too intense for some viewers.
This presentation and all comments, jokes, asides, cabbages, examples, etc.
expressed therein are of my own making and in no way represent the policy or
opinions of the Georgia Institute of Technology, any other USG employee, my
sentient personal computing devices, Starfleet Command, my adorable dog Jasper,
or any other terrestrial or extraterrestrial Entity (not THAT kind of entity!).
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