The document discusses using Views and CCK modules in Drupal to build out content and functionality on a website. It provides overviews of Views arguments, displays, and relationships as well as Content Construction Kit (CCK) fields. Specific modules like Advanced Help, Views Bulk Operations and Vertical Tabs are also mentioned. The document suggests using these tools to add navigation, standardize book cover images, link authors and publishers to related books, and provide an admin interface.

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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