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  • GovCMS8 Site Building Training Manual
  • Contributing and Feedback Guide
  • Software and module requirements
  • UNIT 1: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
    • Overview
    • Layout of a GovCMS page
    • Regions in GovCMS
    • Planning your site
    • About our client
    • Understanding requirements
    • Audience analysis
    • User (visitor) personas
    • Define user stories
    • Roles and Permissions
      • Exercise 1.1: Configure account settings
    • Blocks in GovCMS
      • Exercise 1.3: Place Welcome message block
    • Site navigation
    • Footers
      • Exercise 1.4: Build the related links menu
      • Exercise 1.5: Assign the related links menu block to a region
      • Exercise 1.6: Configure the related links menu block
      • Exercise 1.7: Rearrange the main menu
    • Theme settings
      • Exercise 1.8: Change the logo
      • Exercise 1.9: Create a friendly error page
    • Unit 1 Summary
  • UNIT 2: DESIGNING AND PLANNING CONTENT
    • Designing and planning content
      • Exercise 2.1: Compare content types
    • Planning your site structure
    • Planning data entry and display
    • Discussion
      • Exercise 2.2: Design a content type in minutes
      • Exercise 2.3: Create a content type
    • Add and configure fields
      • Exercise 2.5: Modify an existing field
      • Exercise 2.6: Add a custom text field
      • Exercise 2.7: Review the field list report
    • Manage form display
      • Exercise 2.8: Testing content types
    • Unit 2 Summary
  • UNIT 3: MANAGE MEDIA
    • Manage Media
    • Customise image display with image styles
    • Review configuration of image media display
      • Exercise 3.1: Example use of image styles
      • Exercise 3.2: Add and configure a media field
      • Exercise 3.3 (Challenge): Change image size
    • Unit 3 Summary
  • UNIT 4: TAXONOMY - CATEGORISING CONTENT
    • Taxonomy - Categorising content
      • Exercise 4.1: Add new Vocabulary
      • Exercise 4.2: Add Taxonomy field to content types
    • About input options
      • Exercise 4.3: Add fields to content types
      • Exercise 4.4: Test the new vocuabulary
    • Editorial considerations
    • Prepare documentation for new staff onboarding
    • Content creation forms
    • Unit 4 Summary
  • UNIT 5: TEXT FORMATS AND RICH TEXT
    • Text formats and rich text
      • Exercise 5.1 (Optional): Set up the Rich Text editor
      • Exercise 5.2 (Challenge): Create a new text format
    • About cross-site scripting
    • Text formats
    • Unit 5 Summary
  • UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
    • Content listing with Views
      • Exercise 6.1: Build the employment news view
    • Views - Part 2
      • Exercise 6.3: A customised News and Media page
      • Exercise 6.4: Reuse a Views template
    • Related content by term
      • Exercise 6.5: Make a list of States/Territories block
      • Exercise 6.6: Build the related content block
      • Exercise 6.7: Configure data field and Event content type
      • Exercise 6.8 (Challenge): Extend Content type
      • Exercise 6.9: Modify an event listing for future dates
    • Customize the content administration experience
      • Exercise 6.10: Administration with View bulk operations
    • Unit 6 Summary
  • UNIT 7: URL ALIASES
    • URL Aliases
      • Exercise 7.1: URL aliases - Patterns
    • URL Redirects
      • Exercise 7.2: Configure redirects
      • Exercise 7.3: Breadcrumbs
    • Menu check
    • Unit 7 Summary
  • UNIT 8: SITE BUILDING EXERCISES
    • Site building exercices workshop
    • Extend content types with new fields
      • Exercise 8.1: Add an external link field
    • Agency reference link
      • Exercise 8.2: Create Agency References
    • Job list dropdown filter
      • Exercise 8.3: Configure the job listing
      • Exercise 8.4: Agency logo in Job Posting view
      • Exercise 8.5: Challenge exercises
    • Discussion
    • Views contextual filters
      • Exercise 8.6: Add About author block to News article
    • Further discussion and exercices
    • Employee list and custom profiles
      • Exercise 8.7: Set up profile fields
      • Exercise 8.8: Create a list of users
      • Exercise 8.9: Edit the existing view to filter out roles
      • Exercise 8.10: Create a custom layout
      • Exercise 8.11 (Challenge): An image gallery
    • Unit Summary
    • Discussion
  • UNIT 9: SEARCH AND RELATED CONTENT
    • Search and related content
      • Exercise 9.1: Explore the default search
      • Exercise 9.2: Set up Job posting content type display in global search
      • Exercise 9.3: Create new search page with Search API
      • Exercise 9.4: Add fields to the index
      • Exercise 9.5: Extend the search with Facets
    • Unit Summary
  • UNIT 10: SITE PERFORMANCE
    • Overview
    • Planning for Peformance
    • Define Goals and Requirements
    • Review current issues and bottlenecks
    • Other performance considerations
    • Unit 10 Summary
    • Glossary of terms
    • Appendices
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  1. UNIT 6: CONTENT LISTING WITH VIEWS
  2. Related content by term

Exercise 6.9: Modify an event listing for future dates

There are a variety of ways you could list events. For this exercise, we’ll create a simple view that shows all upcoming events.

Add sample content

  1. Add in 5-10 new events (either manually or using Devel generate)

  2. Make sure all events are published

  3. Include events with both past dates and future dates in the Event Date field

Modify the view

Go to Structure → Views and edit the GovCMS Events Views view.

Customise the display

Filter out old events

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