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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

Unit 6 Summary

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This unit gave us an insight into how the Views module works and how you can use it to customise your website. Views is a great way to build complex queries into your database administration. Later in the course we will see other ways to make the most of Views.

Always use a caching strategy with Views

You can use caching with Views to save the results of a query for the next site visitor. All views can have a Tag based or Time based cache. If all views are set up with a cache of at least fifteen minutes or more it will reduce the load on the database. Tag based cache is the default configuration and is suitable for most caching scenarios.

Note: Very short times in the Time based caching may negatively impact your website performance.

Turn off the Views UI module

When you're not developing Views directly you should disable the UI. This will reduce the load on your server’s memory, but Views will still work.

You can change it to a Time based cache in the right-hand column. Choose a setting based on how often your site is updated.