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In this exercise you will demonstrate more advanced Views skills by building a view with a relationship between content and taxonomy and formatting the output using a table.
Goal
Create a view of content with a relationship to a taxonomy term and format it as a table.
Prerequisites
You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.
- Create relationships within views.
- Customize the markup of content within a view.
Wireframe reference
You will need to refer to the wireframe collection PDF.
- Reviews Index Page
Screenshot of a finished index:
Tasks
Create a view with the URL of reviews, containing taxonomy terms, using Genre as the parent vocabulary.
Hints
- There are many configuration settings required to do this. Check the configuration options carefully.
Recap
- Relationships between content can be created to enable a multitude of possible scenarios.
- Different formatting options enable us to present content for a range of purposes.
Further your understanding
- Continue to the next lesson: Movie Project: Create a Custom Layout with Panels.
Additional resources
- Video: Introduction to Views in Drupal 7 series, in particular lessons 5 and 7 (Drupalize.Me)
- Video: Rewriting Views Field Output (Drupalize.Me)
