Creating a block from a View

Previous recipes have shown how to create and manipulate a page created by a view. Views provides different display types that can be created, such as a block. In this recipe, we will create a block powered by Views. The Views block will list all Tag taxonomy terms that have been added to the Article content type.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have installed the standard installation profile and have the default node content types available for use.

How to do it...

1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views that are created.
2. Click on Add view to create a new view.
3. The first step is to provide the View name of Tags, which will serve as the administrative and (by default) displayed title.

 

4. Next, we will modify the VIEW SETTINGS. We want to display Taxonomy terms of the type Tags. This will make the view default to only displaying taxonomy terms created under the Tags vocabulary.
5. Check the Create a block...