Georgia TechDrupal Users Group

February 2015Bradley Room @ Highland Bakery

Introductions

Announcements

• DrupalCamp New Orleans - 03/28• CampSass Atlanta - 04/04• DrupalCamp Florida - 04/11-04/12• DrupalCon Los Angeles - 05/11 - 05/15

• (session submission deadline 02/27!)

Upcoming Conferences

• Enablus (large)• Tuesday, 02/24 - 10:30am - 11:30am

• Mediacurrent (large and small)• Thursday, 02/26 - 10:30am - 11:30am

• Learn more on the Webmasters @ GT page:• http://webmasters.gatech.edu/handbook/gt-web-design-contract

Upcoming Meet-and-Greets

• The Atlanta Drupal User’s Group is hosting Mediacurrent at Georgia Tech on March 12th for a presentation on Migrating weather.com.

• http://www.meetup.com/drupalatlanta/events/220505938/

ADUG Meetings

Member Announcements?

Intro to ViewsAdelle Frank

Georgia Institute of Technology - Institute Communications

Advanced Views Building #1

Mike AlberghiniGeorgia Institute of Technology - College of Architecture

Relationships in ViewsEric Scott Sembrat

Georgia Institute of Technology - College of Engineering

Relationships 101

Relationships

• Allow to connect linked data sources with the evaluated date source in a View.

• Sources can include:• Data-rich fields• Linked entities, taxonomies, nodes, users• User & Author information

• Equivalent to the SQL join commmand.

Relationships

• The key to staying DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself).• Data elements should not be repeated in multiple areas.• Data should be shared via entity references. • Data should be re-usable across the system.

Why Relationship?

Data Divin’• In order to best utilize relationships, it is essential that you map out your data connections.

• Determines how to swim through data to find information.• Guides your data structure and layout (content types, taxonomy,

user profiles).• Gives additional power to your Views, Panels, and Pages.

Casual Relations• Examples of Relationship types in Views:

• Relate to all entities referencing this node through a field. • Relate to all entities being referenced through a field.• Relate to content authorship and metadata.• Relate to contrib field modules (flag, location)

Demo?

CSS for ViewsDavid Williams

Georgia Institute of Technology

Advanced ViewsTheming

Eric HuffmanGeorgia Institute of Technology - Institute Communications

See You Next Month!