Views in Drupal: the Basics and Beyond

Session Category Beginner Track Audience Beginner

This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to leverage Drupal Views, one of the most powerful and flexible modules in Drupal, to create and manage dynamic content listings. We will demystify the Views user interface and demonstrate how to build various types of content displays without writing a single line of code. Participants will leave with the practical skills needed to create custom pages, blocks, and feeds to showcase their website's content in new and exciting ways.

About the Speaker

Martin Anderson-Clutz

Principal Solutions Engineer at Acquia

London, Ontario, Canada

Martin started his Drupal journey in 2005, with version 4.6. Since then, he has demonstrated his passion for the community in his frequent participation at Drupal user groups, local Drupalcamps, and Drupalcons, often as a speaker. He recently appeared on the Talking Drupal podcast as a guest and host and most recently as host of the "Module of the Week" segment, and has blogs published on OpenSource.com and a handful of other sites. In his current role as a Senior Solutions Engineer at Acquia, he is able to evangelize Drupal to a wide variety or organizations, from local nonprofits to multinational corporations. He also maintains a number of contrib modules, including Smart Date, Search Overrides, and a number of others.