Design and Prototyping for Drupal

Step 7: Setting Up the “Related Events” Block

Now that I have the host info block set up, it’s easy enough to create a “related events” view and place the block it creates. The process was remarkably similar to what I did with the host information, with the following exceptions:

• Instead of configuring our contextual filters by the node ID, we’re using the Taxonomy term, from the Event Categories vocabulary

• Since this is just pulling fields from the Event content type, we don’t need to worry about relationships

Figure 12-30 shows how that contextual filter was set up.

Figure 12-30. Contextual Filter settings for our “Related Events” view

Now, if I go back to my Blocks administration screen (Structure→Blocks) and enable the Related Events block using the same configuration as I did with the About the Host block, I should see a selection of related workshops available for theming (see Figure 12-31).

From here, it’s easy to start theming this whole thing so it looks a bit closer to our design. After a bit of CSS love, and a bit of Drupal tweaking, here’s our updated page in Figure 12-32.

Figure 12-31. Oh, look! There’s also a Sausage Sunday happening. Neat!

Figure 12-32. Our Event page, with theming ...