Views 7.x-3.x

The Views module is probably the most important contrib module to learn in Drupal. However, Views is a Beast to learn. It has a gazillion of settings, twice as many use cases and can be kind of frightening to even look at.

This video series introduces Views in a pretty soft way, starting with the easy stuff to get going, and then builds the more complex stuff on top of that. There are 30 videos in total, so make sure you have a pot of tea before starting.

Have fun!

These last videos in the "Taming the Beast" series presents some miscellaneous information about Views, and then also the "aggregation" setting in Views (which is really cool!).

None of these videos are important when learning Views, but if you want to be really good at using Views you should know about the stuff covered here.

Contextual filters are awesome. They allow you to make views that change their behaviour depending on where you embed them. You can, for example, have a view that shows information about the author of the currently views article or the most popular posts in the viewed category.

Contextual filters used to be called "arguments", and that term is still used by some modules.

These videos will get you an understanding of some of the more complex functionality in Views. Such as:

• Displays: Determine how your views can be inserted on your Drupal site. And reuse your settings between several displays!
• List things that aren't nodes! (Views can even list things outside your Drupal database – like the tweets in the left sidebar on this site.)
• Use relationships to join more data into the "base table" you're working with – add author data to your nodes, add data about related nodes, and so on.
• "Expose" filters, sorting and pager settings to visitors, and let them change their settings on the fly. Great for creating search pages.
• Rewrite the content of fields to create links, add extra formatting, or embed content of other fields.
• Create more complex filter logic by adding AND and OR statements.
• Group fields together, to increase readability of your view results.

These videos will help you get started with the Views module – the most popular of all Drupal modules. You will get an overview of what you can do with Views and when it is useful, learn how to create new views, and get an understanding for the most basic and important settings in Views.