Presentation to Arizona State University's Drupal Users Group in May, 2010

1. Photo by Montrasio International
Advanced CCK & Views
ASU Drupal Users Group | May 2010
help.asu.edu/drupal | @asudrupal

2. Documentation & Help
• Install the Advanced Help module and then
visit mysite.asu.edu/admin/advanced_help
• Demo site: http://dug-demo.uto.asu.edu/

3. Views: Arguments
• Like filters, they provide input to the view.
• Commonly come from the URL, but don’t
have to.
• Example: Podcasts

4. Views: Displays
• Displays allow you to have multiple forms
of output for a single base view.
• Each display can have its own settings.

5. Views: Relationships
• Relationships tie objects in the view to
other objects not necessarily available in
the view.
• Use to pull in and display this data in your
view.

6. Our site so far
• Content types: publisher, author, book
• Views: books
• I’ve added Author and Publisher pages

7. What we’ll do
• Add navigation
• Get a standard output for cover images and
add them to the books listing
• Clicking on an author or publisher should
show us books by that author or publisher
• Add an admin interface

8. The Views & CCK
Toolkit
• Views
• Views Bulk Operations,Views Bonus,Views
Slideshow, Calendar, iTunes
• CCK
• Auto Node Title, Content Taxonomy, Date,
Emfield, Filefield, Filefield Sources, Imagefield
(w/ ImageAPI & ImageCache), Insert, Link
• Vertical Tabs (usability)

9. Panels
• Adding a list of books by the author to the
author’s page