Summary

In this chapter we covered the Views administration page, where you can add, delete, edit, and duplicate views. Then, we reviewed all the general Views module settings. Finally, we modified a core view, quickly going through several configuration options, which will be covered in more detail in the rest of the book. If you have used Views in older versions of Drupal, you should feel comfortable. If this is your first introduction to Views, don't panic that we glossed over a lot or if you felt lost. We'll come back in later chapters and go through the entire Views edit page in much more detail.

In the next chapter, we'll start the in-depth exploration of Views, beginning with building a simple property listing that most real estate sites might have. This listing will get successive refinements in later chapters to make it very powerful, but for now, it is a simple list. This will lead to defining some Views terms, such as View Types, displays, Display Formats, and Display Contents. With the terminology established, we'll end with an interesting view that displays selected events from Drupal's Watchdog log to users that might normally not be able to see them.