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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Gregg Marshall
Book Image

Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By: Gregg Marshall

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
Index

Chapter 5. Relationships

This chapter shows how to use relationships to gain access to even more data to display. Drupal's core taxonomy field stores the taxonomy ID, which isn't too useful to most site visitors; but add a relationship between the content type that uses the taxonomy and that taxonomy vocabulary, and any fields in that vocabulary become available for display, filtering, or sorting. Lynn can modify her neighborhood view to use neighborhood names instead of taxonomy IDs to filter the property list. Similarly, using the built-in entity reference, any reference field can be used to add all the fields in the referenced content to the available fields list. Entity references make it possible to show information about the realtors' along with property information. And because of relationships, we can make powerful attachment displays, such as showing the open houses associated with a group of property listings.