This document summarizes the February 2015 meeting of the Georgia Tech Drupal Users Group. It includes announcements about upcoming Drupal conferences, presentations from guest speakers on introductory and advanced Views topics, and relationships within Views. Presenters discussed how to map out data connections and leverage relationships to build powerful Views, Panels, and Pages.

1. Georgia Tech
Drupal Users Group
February 2015
Bradley Room @ Highland Bakery

2. Introductions

3. Announcements

4. • DrupalCamp New Orleans - 03/28
• CampSass Atlanta - 04/04
• DrupalCamp Florida - 04/11-04/12
• DrupalCon Los Angeles - 05/11 - 05/15
• (session submission deadline 02/27!)
Upcoming Conferences

5. • Enablus (large)
• Tuesday, 02/24 - 10:30am - 11:30am
• Mediacurrent (large and small)
• Thursday, 02/26 - 10:30am - 11:30am
• Learn more on the Webmasters @ GT page:
• http://webmasters.gatech.edu/handbook/gt-web-design-contract
Upcoming Meet-and-Greets

6. • The Atlanta Drupal User’s Group is
hosting Mediacurrent at Georgia Tech
on March 12th for a presentation on
Migrating weather.com.
• http://www.meetup.com/drupalatlanta/
events/220505938/
ADUG Meetings

7. Member Announcements?

8. Intro to Views
Adelle Frank
Georgia Institute of Technology - Institute Communications

9. Advanced Views
Building #1
Mike Alberghini
Georgia Institute of Technology - College of Architecture

10. Relationships
in Views
Eric Scott Sembrat
Georgia Institute of Technology - College of Engineering

11. Relationships 101

12. Relationships

14. • Allow to connect linked data sources with the
evaluated date source in a View.
• Sources can include:
• Data-rich fields
• Linked entities, taxonomies, nodes, users
• User & Author information
• Equivalent to the SQL join commmand.
Relationships

15. • The key to staying DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself).
• Data elements should not be repeated in multiple areas.
• Data should be shared via entity references.
• Data should be re-usable across the system.
Why Relationship?

16. Data Divin’
• In order to best utilize relationships, it is essential
that you map out your data connections.
• Determines how to swim through data to find information.
• Guides your data structure and layout (content types, taxonomy,
user profiles).
• Gives additional power to your Views, Panels, and Pages.

17. Casual Relations
• Examples of Relationship types in Views:
• Relate to all entities referencing this node through a field.
• Relate to all entities being referenced through a field.
• Relate to content authorship and metadata.
• Relate to contrib field modules (flag, location)

18. Demo?

19. CSS for Views
David Williams
Georgia Institute of Technology

20. Advanced Views
Theming
Eric Huffman
Georgia Institute of Technology - Institute Communications

21. See You Next Month!