In this video Kyle will show you how to use views to create a summary list block which lists the months and years for our content, and shows how many posts were created in each month/year. We'll be using Views contextual filters and the core date created field.
In this chapter we go one step further with multiple-value date fields, and use the Date Repeat API and Field to create automatically repeating dates. We cover all of the different ways you can configure a repeating date and explain what is going on behind the scenes.
In this chapter Karen introduces you to using the date field with multiple values. She looks at how to set up a content type with multiple dates, tweak the way they are displayed, and also how to use a multiple-value date in a view.
In this chapter we will walk through using dates as contextual filters, also known as arguments in Drupal-speak. We will create a block which shows us content per month, based on pur date field, and allow users to page through the months.
In this chapter we continue working with Date filters in Views and look at using the created and updated core date fields.
In this chapter Michelle will walk us through using our new date field with Views to create a listing of our content showing the dates associated with them. We'll be listing our date content, with an exposed filter for selecting the date range, and we look at how to set relative dates to fill in the form's default values.
You'll need to the Views and Chaos Tools modules for this chapter. If you would like a refresher on using Views, you can watch our Intro to Views for Drupal 7 series.
Note: With an update in Date module (7.x-2.x), you can now change the format of the date in the exposed filter. It's not a completely smooth process, but here are some instructions for how to get this working.
1. Ensure that the following modules and their dependencies are enabled: Date, Date Views, Date Popup, Views UI.
2. Add a date field to a content type. Collect only the date (not the time -- uncheck hours, minutes, seconds). Create some content with a date.
3. Create a new view of fields filtered by the content type in which you added a date field.
4. Update the format as described in the video to table and add a label to the Title field.
5. Add the date field to fields. Choose the "short" format to display.
6. Add the date field to filters. Select "day" as granularity.
7. Expose the date filter. Configure it as described in the video.
8. The exposed date filter should show a long format in the text field, which is not what we want.
9. In a new tab, go to Configuration > Regional and Language > Date and time > Types
10. For the Date Type of "Short", select the 2nd option (10/21/2014 - 12:29). Save configuration.
11. Go back to your view and refresh the page. The date popup format should now be in the short format. It should now respect whatever format you choose for "Short" in the Date and Type settings.
In this chapter we dive deeper into the Date field and look at all the configuration options that come with the Date field out of the box. We'll also enable the Date All Day and Date Popup modules to see some nice additions to our main Date field.
In this chapter, Karen turns on the Date, Date API, and Date tools modules, and walks us through some initial configuration of core date settings, so that we can use Date module properly. We look at the site timezone settings, as well as talk about the core date formats. Then we go ahead and create some new custom date formats and date types.
When you learn how Drupal handles dates, you can create event functionality, listing pages with a unique result set, and calendars. The Dates Series begins with basic configurations and the contributed modules required to integrate with other functionality. In addition to creating a new content type for our Date field via the wizard, we also explore all possible configuration choices by diving deeper into the Date field. Once we have content on our site, we move into displaying the content in unique ways in Views by using basic filters, exposed filters and contextual filters. Other demonstrations in this series include working with multiple date fields, repeating dates and integrating with the Context module.
If you would like to work along with the video, the entire demo site can be downloaded and set up (it is found on the introduction video's Downloads tab). The zip file includes the Drupal files, the database, and a README.txt file to explain setting it up. The site was created using the Demonstration module so that you can switch back and forth among the finished states of the various chapters.
Once you have your site up and running it is very important to keep your site up to date and secure. Both Drupal core and contributed projects continue to improve the software with bug fixes and security updates. In this chapter we look at using the core Update Manager, and explain how to read the various reports about our site's status. Before we walk through the process up updating a contributed module, as well as our version of Drupal core, we also make sure we do a backup.
In this chapter we're going to go through a launch checklist to make sure we have a few things all set up before we actually put our site out there. We discuss:
- error reporting settings
- 403 and 404 pages
- performance optimization and caching
- reviewing the status reports
- disabling unnecessary modules
In this chapter Joe covers two really important tools for most sites: cron and search. We start by explaining what cron is, and how core provides us with a basic cron tool. We also walk through how to set up your own custom cron if the core settings don't suit you. Next we look at Drupal's core search and the various ways you can configure that.
In this chapter, we look at the Drupal file system configuration, and we set up our site to give us private file storage. We'll talk about what that means, and the benefits and drawbacks to Drupal's private files.
In this chapter we talk about the powerful and flexible user system in Drupal. We'll create new users and roles, and walk through how the permissions work with them.
This screencast gives miscellaneous tips when writing Rules plugins, such as:
- Some words on declaring new data types for Rules
- How to restrict access to plugins
- How to form alter plugin configuration forms
- How to provide additional form validation
- How to use the "base" property to provide a non-default callback function
- How to invoke events programmatically with all arguments in a single array
- How to use drupal_static() to share variables/values with other parts of Drupal
This screencast shows how to:
- Invoke a Rules event
- Send parameter data to a Rules event
This is shown by an event triggered every time a view is being rendered, sending the name of the view as a parameter.
This screencast shows how to:
- Declare a Rules event
- Declare the data provided by the event
- Use that data in a rule
The example used creates an event "View is being rendered", passing along information about which view is being used.
This screencast shows how to create a condition plugin for Rules:
- How to declare new conditions for Rules
- How to provide the condition callbacks with parameters to act on
- The big similarities and the few differences between actions and conditions
In the example, a condition is built to check which view type a provided view has.