Objectives & prerequisites
Objectives
- Inspect administrative views.
Prerequisites
- Being familiar with the Drupal administration interface.
- Being familiar with content types and fields.
- Being familiar with the basic views creation process.
- Already having created at least a handful of views with a page or block display.
Introduction
Drupal comes pre-installed with a number of views, listed at Manage > Structure > Views.
You can very roughly divide these views into two categories: public-facing views, whose goal is to display information, and admin-facing views that usually help you manage entities such as content, users, or taxonomy terms.
Public-facing views
These include:
- Frontpage (lists all content marked "promote to front page")
- Recent comments (lists the 10 most recent comments across all content)
- Who's new (lists the 5 newest users)
- Who's online (lists all users who were active within the last 15 minutes)
Admin-facing views
Other views are only used as part of the administration interface, such as:
- Content (the main Content management page)
- People (the main User management page)
- Comments (the main Comment management page at
/admin/content/comments)
To customise Drupal's administration interface to your specific needs, you can edit all of these views, or even completely replace them with your own.
Summary
- You can roughly divide most views into:
- public-facing views (mostly content)
- admin-facing views (mostly administrative)
- You can customise all views