Conditional Fields. Panels. An Overview of Panels The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag and drop content manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within that layout. Integration with other systems allows you to create nodes that use this, landing pages that use this, and even override system pages such as taxonomy and the node page so that you can customize the layout of your site with very fine grained permissions. Integration with CTools module Panels 3 utilizes the CTools' system of "context" so that the content you place on the page can be aware of what is being displayed. Panels uses Contexts - What are they?
In a Panel, you can create contexts, which represent the objects being displayed. In addition, these contexts can be checked for information and use that not only to make content available to be displayed, but to choose which layout to display! Panels can also be used for items smaller than pages. Edit. Display Suite. Display Suite allows you to take full control over how your content is displayed using a drag and drop interface.
Arrange your nodes, views, comments, user data etc. the way you want without having to work your way through dozens of template files. A predefined list of layouts (D7 only) is available for even more drag and drop fun! By defining custom view modes (build modes in D6), you can define how one piece of content should be displayed in different places such as teaser lists, search results, the full node, views etc. Watch a screencast to see it all in action! Advanced options ExportablesAdd your own custom fields in the backend or in your codeAdd custom layouts in your theme (D7 only)Change labels, add styles or override field settings (semantic fields).Full integration with Views and PanelsExtend the power of your layouts by installing Field GroupOptimal performance with Object cache (D6) or Entity cache (D7) integration Drupal 7 Modules included: Drupal 6 Information Credits.
An Introduction to Drupal’s Display Suite(DS) « Drupal-lovers. Posted by drupallovers on March 30, 2012 One of the rites of passage for beginner Drupal users is to learn Panels. It’s a useful tool for laying out pages and redesigning content pages without any code knowledge. However, not everyone is a fan. Panels is sometimes criticized for being hard to use and for having performance issues. In this tutorial we’re going to introduce you to a powerful alternative: Display Suite. We’re going to show you several ways in which it can make designing your content fun and pain-free. Why Display Suite? We’re going to use Movies as our example.
So far, so good. The goal of Display Suite is to allow us to move from the layout above to the layout below. Getting Started with Display Suite To start working with Display Suite, you just need two modules: Download and install both modules. Go to Structure > Display suite so to see the options available. You’ll now see a list of all the things that you can redesign with Display Suite.
You’ll now see all of your fields.