Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 9 ■ Views
In the second column of configuration options (refer to Figure 9-3), we’ll begin
by defining the Page Settings for our example.
8. Every View display that is defined as Page must have a unique URL, specified in
the Path field. For our example, let’s use “/all-articles” as the URL. Click “No path
is set” and on the “The menu path or URL of this view” form enter all-articles in
the Path text field. Click the Apply button to continue.
9. The Menu field gives us the option to add our View display page to a menu.
For demonstration purposes, we’ll add it to the “Main navigation” menu. Click
the “No menu” parameter and click the “Normal menu entry” option. On the
configuration page for adding the menu entry, enter a title, a description, and
select “Main navigation” as the menu on which this item will be displayed. For
sites that you are building, you may want to add a View page to a menu other
than the “Main navigation” menu. Click the Apply button after entering the
values on the form.
10. Views provides the ability to restrict who can see the output generated by this
View display. You can set the Access restrictions to
• None: Anyone can see the output.
• Permission: The visitor must be assigned to a role that has permissions to view
the output.
• Role: The visitor must be assigned to a specific role to see the output.
By default the value is set to Permission, where the default permission is that the
visitor must have the ability to view content on the site (see figure 9-3). In most
cases the default values are appropriate. For our example page, we will leave
them set to the defaults, which is that only visitors who have the ability to view
content will be able to see the output of the view.
11. The Header setting enables you to add several things to the top of your view. For
example, you could provide an introductory paragraph that describes the content
rendered by the view, or a block that you have defined on your site, the output of
another view, or several other elements. Click the Add button and select from the
list of options. The most common option is to add an introductory paragraph; to
do so, click the “Global: text area” option, select the “This page (override)” option
in the For select list at the top of the options, and click the “Apply (this display)”
button. On the next form, enter the text that you want to display at the top of
the view. If you want the header text to display even when there are no results
for your view, check the “Display even if view has no results” box, followed by
clicking the “Apply (this display)” button.
12. The Footer setting, similar to Header, enables you to add a footer to the output of
a view. Follow the same steps as listed in step 11 to insert a footer at the bottom
of the view.
13. If your view returns no content—for example, there are no published Articles on
your site—you can alert the visitor that no content exists by displaying a message
via the No Results Behavior setting. The process for creating the message is the
same as for creating the header and footer. Follow the directions in step 11 to add
a message when no results are found.
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