Out of the box Drupal 7 has a ton of powerful tools for collecting and storing content provided by your site's administrators and end users. Once that content exists though how do we make use of it beyond a simple single page display? Enter the views module. Views is the most popular contributed module on drupal.org, and for good reason. The views module allows you to make lists of nodes, users, taxonomy terms, files and much more of the content on your Drupal site with just a few clicks. Never write an SQL query by hand again.

In this Do it with Drupal session, Addison Berry will cover the basics of using the views module to create a list of nodes, demonstrate the use of filters to limit the items within a list, sorting to control the order items are listed and relationships to pull in additional information about items from other sources. Once we've created a list of items to display we'll take a look at the various options for outputting that list on a page, in a block, or as an RSS feed for our site.