Panels are like views, but way more powerful, and more sophisticated
Panels over-ride content of any Drupal page
You can create custom paths i.e creating a sideboard for organic groups
Add variant for note template page
Custom panel pages
Set up a new page
You can allow certain users access to certain panels and not views
Existing panels
If you want to create a panel for all the article content on your site – it’s already set up and ready to go
When you’re creating this you have to be adding a variant, so if you want to add a varient for say admins, and then anonymous users to have another, you can use selection rules
Can you clone variants (similar to displays in views….) but a little different cause when you create a new variant, you have to start from scratch, you can export and import variants
Adding content to panels – you can create new custom content in panels, instead of creating a new custom block
Panels also lets you create custom layouts
Layouts by default are kinda limited – you have to tell your theme that you’re going to do this, then you need to create a directory in your theme, then you can copy a layout from panels to give you a template to customize
Panels is not perfect for multi-lingual sites – you have to write some custom code for this – or you can get around this by using a multi-lingual block
