Part B: Information structure in Drupal

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An important factor in Drupal's success as a publishing system is the ability to quickly and flexibly create information structures. This functionality stems from Drupal's way of handling information fields, combined with the Views module. This part of the book covers the basics of how to leverage Drupal's information structure tools.

10: Advanced Views configuration

There are many ways of describing what Drupal is. One of the better ones is: Drupal is a tool for making easy things difficult, and

6: Fields

Articles and basic pages are both node types, but they hold different information – while basic pages only store header and body, articles

7: Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the word Drupal uses to talk about categorizing. The tags used on articles in a standard Drupal installation are an example of

8: View modes and field display

As administrator you can add different types of fields to node types, comments, users and taxonomy terms, as the previous chapters have

9: Views basics

The Views module is the most used of all the contributed Drupal modules. The flexibility and generality of Views makes it difficult to

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