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Drupal 7 Media

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Media Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516082
Length 260 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Views


Up to this point we have discussed how content is structured, how are fields added to it, and even the actual styling of it's view and creating content.

An important aspect of working with content is not just about creating, editing, or deleting but also retrieving this content and displaying it as a list of items in many different styles (although do not confuse this with a content type's view modes).

Views, another powerful community-contributed module, aids in this task of providing an administrative user interface (UI) for building content listings, among many other tasks. If you have a little bit of database background then you can think of the Views module as a tool to create the SQL queries that retrieve and build content, which is exactly what Views is doing behind the scenes.

With Views you can create content listing as follows:

  • Recent Memos that were created by users

  • Reports about Memos used in your website

  • Upcoming events mentioned in Memos

The Views module is one of tens of thousands...

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