Design and Prototyping for Drupal

Step 2: Create the Event Categories View

The initial Event Categories view was pretty simple. As the goal was simply to give a visual list of taxonomy terms, all I needed was a list of taxonomy terms that showed the name of the term, linked to the term page itself, followed by the image I’d added to each term. Figure 13-5 shows what my initial settings looked like.

Figure 13-5. Our initial View settings. Note that we’re looking for “Taxonomy Terms,” not “Content”

Once I had the view set up, it was time to select the fields I needed, and set up my filters. To begin with, I just want to add the Image field; Taxonomy Term: Name is added by default. I also wanted to limit the terms I showed to just the Event Categories vocabulary. Figure 13-6 shows what the settings looked like once I was done.

Figure 13-6. Our block settings page in the View. Now the fun begins!

Now that we have all of our settings put together, we should be able to enable our block via the Blocks administration (Structure→Blocks) and see our new view on the home page (Figure 13-7).

Figure 13-7. Well that’s... something.

In order to get this looking correct, we have to start tweaking some of our View settings.