The Views data export module was designed to provide a way to export the large amount of data from views. It would be best to download the Views Data Export module using composer since the module has a dependency on the CSV Serialization module and other libraries. When you use composer for the installation, the dependencies will be automatically handled.
Next, install the module as you would install any contributed module. Quickest way is to use the drush command line tool to install the module. After enabling the module, in order to export the views we will first need to create the views and set up the export display with the necessary configurations.
Check the detailed explanations for each step that you can follow:. Create a master views display according to the requirements with the necessary fields and filters as needed.
In our case, we have created the views for listing all the users in the site. Check image below for reference. Using this, add the display as data export it will create the new data export display by copying all the fields and filters from the master display. Export display has various configurations that will help in creating the data export of the views in various formats.
See the below image that displays all the configurations. Once all the setup is done, save the view and visit the page. Now you will be able to see the download button in the footer region of the views which will download the data export with all the necessary filters if applied.
Also, batch operations are fully supported only with MySQL databases. Thus saving you time and effort in writing custom code. Want to discuss with our Drupal experts about a new project that we could help you out with? Leave us a Comment. Discover how our technology enabled UX Magazine to cater to their massive audience and launch outreach programs. Imagine a client asks you to add a new feature to the company's Drupal site: displaying PDF files in the browser.
As you browse the options on drupal. The first step is to define what you want. In general, these are fairly standard requirements that you'll be expecting. With these goals in mind, the next step was a simple search on Drupal.
Time to jump into the Ball Pit of Module Goodness. My first stop was or should have been , this page: a Comparison of PDF viewer modules. There's a central list of comparison pages , but they're also sprinkled throughout the site. We'll cover them here, as well as a couple of others we found from searching. We'll start with the candidates we decided to skip.
Now let's delve into the specifics of why these modules did or mostly didn't work for this project. Google Viewer File Formatter is what it sounds like: a way to use Google Docs to embed displays of files in your web page. Although we liked the versatility of Google Docs, one of our goals was to remain independent of any third-party service.
Also, this module had less than installs. Only about installs. Moving on Scald PDF only had 40 installs, but we had to take a look since it was clearly part of a larger project called yes Scald. As the Scald project page explained: " Scald is an innovative take on how to handle Media Atoms in Drupal.
That sentence raised two huge red flags: "innovative take" and the word "Media" paired with "Atom". Drupal has a penchant for these empty-box kind of words: node , entity , feature The more general the word, the more sweeping the changes may be.
You'll read excited claims of how Scald will basically reinvent how you handle media on your site. Now, the truth is that Drupal's Media handling could use some reinventing. Scald isn't the only ambitious project in this space. Scald might be the next Views. That would rock. But it might also be abandonware, with a small trail of broken sites left to weep. Shadowbox surprised us: it claimed to be a single solution to displaying all kinds of media, from PDFs to images to video.
This wasn't as sweeping as Scald since it would only focus on displaying media without introducing whole new concepts like "Media Atoms". But we already like Colorbox, as mentioned. However, we did note with an inner groan that with over 16, installs, Shadowbox could be a more powerful alternative in the same space.
We had to take a look. The Shadowbox Drupal module is basically a bridge to a Javascript library, Shadowbox. There, we discovered two reasons to move on:. These two projects had key similarities:. Meanwhile, PDF was marked as "Seeking co-maintainer s. On the other hand, PDF Reader was marked as "Actively maintained," but the most recent commit was a year ago. Without a clear winner, we decided to test them both. We tested both modules on a copy of our live site. No matter how solid and innocuous a module appears, never try it first on a live site.
You could break your whole site. So we decided to try PDF first, to get it out of the way. For some reason, this module seems to require that you compile pdf.
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