Building Web Applications with Drupal 8, Views, Fields and Panels

Participants should be familiar with Drupal concepts like nodes, users, comments, terms and vocabularies.

Completion of Administering a Drupal Website course is recommended.

NO programming skills are required!

This course has been created for everyone interested in creating robust application with Drupal. It explains the "non-technical" site of Drupal, which allows you to build an application without any coding.

What Drupal can and cannot do out of the box?

• How to add extra field to Drupal nodes
• How to extend Drupal profiles
• How to put a couple of pieces on a single page?
• How to aggregate data

Adding extra fields to a node

• Standard field types (Text, Number, Node and User Reference)
• Widgets (Checkbox, Select List, Textfield)
• Contributed Field extension modules like email fields, date fields, etc....

Views

• Creating simple views with Views UI module
• Overriding views
• Views type and available extensions
• Dealing with relationships (nodereference and userreference fields)

Panels

• Creating pages with multiple content
• Panels basic options and definitions
• Panels displays, panel pages, panel nodes
• Mini panels
• Panels arguments
• Panels context
• Creating Master/details pages