Before a view can be shown on a Drupal site it must have one or more displays. Displays determine how a view may be called from Drupal. Without a display a view is only a database query with no way of being displayed.

A default Views installation has four types of displays:

• Page: This makes the view available as a web page on the site, with its own URL and optionally a menu link.
• Block: This creates a block of the view, which can be used on the site like any other block.
• Feed: This creates an RSS feed at a given URL, and is optionally attached to other displays in the same view.
• Attachment: This display item will be attached and displayed before or after other displays in the same view, much like using the header/footer setting and embedding a view.