This chapter introduces sorting and filtering. Using Views' default sorting of the last updated date/time and list of all properties wouldn't be too useful for a large real estate agency that may have hundreds of properties, especially if a visitor was looking for a house that has been for sale for quite a while. Sorting lets you specify the order you want your results to be displayed in, and you can also sort within sorts, which is called a multilevel sort. Once we have the properties in a reasonable order, we'll learn how to group the results when there is more than one row with the same value. Next, we will move on to limiting which results are displayed using filtering. The simplest filters are fixed at the time you create a View, such as whether to include unpublished nodes. You can also expose a filter to the user and let them select which results to show.
Mastering Drupal 8 Views
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Mastering Drupal 8 Views
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Overview of this book
Learn how to build complex displays of content—all without programming.
Views were used on more than 80% of all Drupal 7 sites; now they are part of the Drupal 8 core. While most site builders and site owners are aware of views, they don't understand how to take full advantage of their power to create many amazing pages and blocks. If they use views, they might build 10 different view displays with different filters, without knowing that a contextual filter would require only a single display.
Using our sample company, we'll take its existing content and evolve an ever more complex and powerful website for that company, starting with adapting the administration the user sees and moving on to making complex pages of information for site visitors.
While the book is written for Drupal 8, the similarities between Views in Drupal 7 and 8 make this a useful reference for Drupal 7 site builders also.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Drupal 8 Views
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Up and Running with Views
Views from Scratch
Sorting and Filtering
Contextual Filters
Relationships
Add-on Modules
Field Rewrites
Customizing Views
Advanced View Settings
Theming Views
Content Types for a Sample Site
Index
Customer Reviews