Display Suite

Getting Started on Sites: Creating a New View Mode

Cynthia Mijares — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:21:00 +0000

Drupal has a couple of standard ways to display content using a Default view or a Teaser view display. Stanford Web Services uses View modes to create multiple image/Field Collection displays and allows the site builder to change how fields will be displayed.

Using Display Suite to provide field-level permissions

Caryl J Westerberg — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:00:00 +0000

Have you ever wanted to show only selected information on a content type to anonymous users and more information to authenticated users? It turns out that you can use Display Suite to provide field-level permissions for an entity.

Why Not Panels?

John Bickar — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:03:08 +0000

One of the common requests that we receive about the list of included modules in Stanford Sites is if we can add the Panels module. I would like to outline our rationale for not including Panels in Stanford Sites, and describe the alternative approaches and methods you can use to create unique, custom layouts on your website.

Using Display Suite to Place Node Fields in Blocks

John Bickar — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:18 +0000

Have you ever looked at a page layout and thought, "Hm, that sure is one long list of fields. It would be nice to be able to place some of that information in a sidebar (or in the footer, etc.)"

In this example, we want to move some of the "Contact Information" fields of an Event node into the first sidebar.

You can do exactly that with the Display Suite Extras module, which is available on Stanford Sites. Here's how.