I'm trying to theme a single "display" in a view. What I'm trying to achieve is to have some control over how the row is rendered (eg. print the fields in the row, and maybe add some text in between. along with some divs for styling purpose). I've looked for days for the template to edit. I've used even the Theme Developer and the View's Theme Information, but no luck. All
My view's name is Calendar, and there are a bunch of displays. Could anyone tell me what I should do in order to customize the rows in this particular display? Does drupal even provide this flexibility?
The Name and Title of my display in the Calendar view is:
Name: List view
Title: List
Here's the theme information for row style:
Row style output: views-view-fields.tpl.php, views-view-fields--calendar.tpl.php, views-view-fields--page.tpl.php, views-view-fields--calendar--page.tpl.php, views-view-fields--calendar.tpl.php, views-view-fields--page-1.tpl.php, views-view-fields--calendar--page-1.tpl.php
Could someone tell me how to
Edit:
(Some additional information the OP posted in an answer)
I'm using Drupal 6. I'm not sure what page-1 indicates here The following is the list of display I have in this view:
Defaults
Calendar page
Calendar block
Month view
Week view
Block view
Upcoming
List view
Ongoing Block Feed
As you see, none of which has the string "page-1". I edited views-view-list.tpl.php, one of the file listed for "style output". The only variable I have access to is rows, which is an array containing all individual rendered "row". Like I mentioned before, the rows are generated somewhere else, and already contain the rendered fields. How can I customize these rows?
You shouldn't have to add anything to template.php if you are using Drupal 6.
The list of possible theme files that you have there goes in order from least to most specific. For instance, the first one, views-view-fields.tpl.php, will apply to all fields of all views on your site. The last one, views-view-fields--calendar--page-1.tpl.php, will only apply to the "page 1" display of the "calendar" view, so I'm guessing that's the one you want to overwrite.
When you click on Theme Information in the view, the display provided ("page 1" or whatever) applies to the display you are currently on. So if you want to theme fields in a certain display (the "blocky block" display of the "calendar" view, for instance), then you would click the "blocky block" display in the vertical menu on the left, then click Theme Information for that display.
So once you figure out which one you want to use, make a new file in your theme directory with that name, then copy of the contents of the current theme file (click the name of the theme files section on the Theme Information page) into your new theme file, then edit away. Remember, if you overwrite a theme file, you have to click "Rescan template files" in the Theme Information page for the new file to take effect.
Hope that helps!
The displays have custom names on the surface only, but internally they are referenced by id. 'page_1' will be your first display of type 'page' (blocks will become 'block_[id]', feeds will become 'feed_[id]' and so on).
So if you posted your displays in order, 'page_1' would be the 'Calendar' display. You can check this by looking at the links under the display entries in the display listing on the right of the views config page. They will have anchors named '#views-tab-page_1', '#views-tab-block_1' and so on.
As for overriding the templates, be aware that if you add a new *.tpl.php file, you need to reset the theme registry for it to be 'picked up' by Drupal.
Have you added the custom code needed in the template.php file? I know in drupal 5 you need to put code in 3 files:
template.php
views-views-fields--[name].tpl.php
views-views-fields--[name].css
Also you might try:
http://drupal.org/node/128741
answering the second question: the style output is not the template you're looking for. row style is the template that edits how fields are arranged within the row. if you want to edit how a particular field outputs its content, then the specific field template should be edited.
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I want to make a long page consisting of multiple nodes (each of the same Content Type). The page should have navigation on top of it that will allow to jump directly to the desired point of the long page, kind of like here: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html (there navigation is under the picture)
I used the Views module to assemble a long page from content, and for navigation I tried to use another View of the same content, only inserted in the top of the page as a block. I set this view to display grid of fields; it looks good. Only I could not figure out how to make each cell in the grid to become a link to the content on the same page.
I tried modifying views template, but there $rows variable turned out to be a string with already assembled html. Maybe I could possibly modify the content template, and insert some sort of condition that will change the way content looks based on what part of the page current view is located, but I am not sure how to do that either.
In the views, edit the field selected, and there are options there to configure the field as hyperlinks how you may want them. Also you can just let the field link directly to the node, there is an option for that. cheers
I have a view that I am using for articles on the front page (View called Frontpage Top).
in one BLOCK display (named: Top Story) it just selects the most recent article.
in the other BLOCK display (named: Top 5 Stories) it selects the 2nd-6th most recent.
I need to make a template for the single top story, and then another to display the other 5.
this template:
views-view--Frontpage-Top.tpl.php works, but it's being used for BOTH blocks.
The only way I know how to do this is with multiple views, but these are so closely related I'd like to keep them in one. Is this even possible, and if so what would the filename look like?
it doesn't seem to be documented in Views2 ( http://drupal.org/node/352970 )
and this ( Drupal: Views, can the displays have different styles for the view? ) is close but not the same.
If the "right" way is to create multiple views I am ok with that, but I cannot find a resource saying that and I'd prefer not to if I don't have to.
Thanks!
Each display can be themed independently from another. In the Views admin, go to the display you want to customize and click on "Theme: Information". This will show you all possible templates and naming options you have. See the image below:
If you see in the image above, you can create a template for specific displays in a view. For example, all of my displays in this view are Page displays. So to style the "Business Cards" display (the 2nd display), I could use "views-view-grid--Vendors--page-2.tpl.php" to change the Style Output. The page-2 specifies that you want the template to handle your 2nd page display in this view.
If you need more information, take a look at Views 2 Theming Documentation
I've created a views called event which lists all 'event' content type pages, however I want to style the list by adding a "read more" button as well as other styles. I have created a blank template called views-view--event.tpl.php and I can see now that this is used because the view no longer lists the pages, instead it is blank (as expected). However, how do I now add the pages back in? I.e what php variables etc can I access from here? I've tried to echo a simple $title but this doesn't work. Is there a global variable that I can access? If so, what is it? I simply want to replicate what the view was doing before I created the template but with the ability to style it how I wish.
Go to your view display and look at the bottom of the "advanced" column. You'll see something like "Theme : Information". Try to locate your template name and click on it to get it's base code.
My setup: I'm using Drupal 7 with lots of contrib modules (Chaos Tools, Views, IMCE, etc.) I'm not sure if Views are considered Entities right off the bat, but I'll be asking this question assuming that they are.
My question: How do I add a field to all Views that asks the admin for an image?
The context: I have a sidebar module that lists every View. I need them all to have thumbnails to the left of them.
What I've tried: I've tried looking all over the Field/CRUD APIs but I could not find anything that appends a field called "Image" to the end of the views_view table. I also tried watching some conferences e.g. DrupalCon but I couldn't find anything that was specific to my question.
Don't know exactly what you mean by "asks the admin for an image", but asuming you'd like to add a static image to a view you have the following options:
( probably easiest) add an image tag to a view block template.
If you don't yet have a block template create one in your theme template folder and name it: block--views--{VIEW_BLOCK_DELTA}.tpl.php, copy the contents of the default block.tpl.php into the file and then add the img tag.
Login as admin, go to: structure > views and then click edit on a view you'd like to add image to.
Go to fields section.
Now it depends if you want to use the image path from cck field value OR you want to hardcode it, like you would in the 1st example.
CCK field way: ( first create a cck field of course), add it to your view fields list, go to rewrite result and tick "Rewrite the output of this field" and then add to textarea sometihing like that:
< img src="[YOUR_FIELD_NAME]">
You can also hardcode it, if you don't need it to be stored in a cck field in db:
select a random field, click on it, go to go to rewrite result and tick "Rewrite the output of this field" and then add to textarea sometihing like that:
< img src="trololo.jpg"> [RANDOM FIELD NAME]
This would just append the image next to an existing filed, so with just a little styling you could achieve your goal quite quickly
I am looking to add separate buttons that will be displayed at the top of the view that I am creating in Drupal.
So far all the fields that I have added appear inside of the table as they should. The only thing that shows outside of the table is the search filter above (as it should).
I would like to add 3 buttons(links) in a row that are positioned above the table and below the search area.
Is there any way to do this in Views? If so could someone describe the process? Thanks!
The most straightforward way to do this is through the theme layer. Edit the view, and go into the Header option under Basic settings. There, you can put in your custom HTML for the buttons.
However, as you might've noticed, this places the header above the exposed filters, whereas you want the header below them. To do this, go into the Theme information option under Basic settings, and find the Display output section.
There, you'll see a list of file name hints. Create a file within your theme using one of those filename hints. Then, click on Display output: you'll receive the default code you'll need to put within your newly created template file.
You'll notice in this new template of yours that the $header code block is before the $exposed code block. Just switch the positions and save your template. Back on the view configuration page, click on Rescan template files, save your view, and the header you've added will now be below the exposed filters.