What are Views?
The views module allows administrators and site designers to create, manage, and display lists of content. Each list managed by the views
Understanding Views versus custom code
This page discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the Views module versus custom coding your queries and presentation.
Configuring a view
Once you've created a view, you can customize it further - you can control the view's
Query Settings
Some Views may contain duplicate results. There is an option that can help remove duplicates. Open up the "Advanced" section of the view's
Format
The Format setting controls the overall format for the list of information in your view.
Grid (output format)
The grid style displays each row of your view within a grid. You can customize the number of columns; the default is 4 columns.
HTML list (output format)
The HTML list format displays each row of the view as part of an HTML list. For example:
Theming a view
These pages will explain how to theme Views 3.
Theming a single field in a Views 3 template
Follow these steps to change the design of a single field in a view, using template suggestions.
Theming ajaxified view/view block
Views module provides powerful end flexible tools to create custom template files for each element, but as it is using jQuery in few places,
Views video tutorials
Below are several video tutorials on getting started with the Views module:
Views issue queue
Members of the Views Bug Squad are Drupal contributors who have committed to spending a few hours a week triaging the Views issue queue. The
Bug Squad: How to work the issue queue
Bug Squad: Additional tasks
The primary purpose of the Bug Squad is to verify and assign issues, but there are many additional tasks that can be very helpful.
Views issue queue guidelines
Overview
Views HowTos
HowTos for Views 3 in Drupal 7.
- Adding checkboxes/Radios to table
- Count, sum, average, min, max in Views
- D7: Embed a Views 3's result into a page
- D7: Using table column click sort with taxonomy terms.
- Enabling standard pagers in your custom views backend
- How to make Union with different views or displays
- How to use Views 3 and Panels to create a RSS feed for comments for each node
- Overriding default views in code
- PHP contextual filters
- Programatically Updating Views Permissions
- Using PHP to Rewrite Views 3 Output
- Using Views with a non-default data source
- Views Contextual filter and manual Pane argument
- Views permissions
Data fix: Field [field] refers to nonexistent entity type [type].
This document describes how to fix an underlying data issue if you have a field referring to a nonexistent entity type.