Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 9 ■ Views
list of options, choose Feed. The next step is to enter a URL where the feed will be accessed. In the second
column in the “Feed settings” section, click the “No path is set” link to enter a URL. For demonstration
purposes, I’ll enter a URL of rss/all-articles. I could have used any URL, but I find it easier to prefix all
of my RSS feed URLs with rss so that it is apparent what that URL renders. Complete the process by clicking
the Apply button to save the changes to the URL, and then clicking the Save button at the bottom of the form
to save the updates to the view. You now have an RSS feed that other sites can use to consume articles from
your site. Visiting that URL shows the output of the feed (see Figure 9-10).
Figure 9-10. A Views-generated RSS feed
Creating Tables
Rendering content as lists works well in most cases, but you’ll likely encounter scenarios where listing
content in a table format is more representative of how users prefer to view the content. For demonstration
purposes, return to the Recent Articles view edit form to create a new display that will render fields from
articles in a spreadsheet-like format. Click the Add button in the Displays area, and select Block as the
display type. Change the “Display name” as you did previously, this time to “Table of articles.” Click
“Unformatted list” in the Format section, changing the type of output to be rendered to Table, and remember
to change the For option at the top of the page to “This block (override)” before clicking the “Apply (this
display)” button. The next screen that appears presents the style options that you can set for your new
table(see Figure 9-11).
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