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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

Changing how fields are output


Refreshed from getting up, getting more coffee, and having a quick rundown of Lynn's son's soccer game earlier in the week, Jim and Lynn sat down at his computer again.

"Before we get to my favorite option, let's do the rest of the field rewrite options as they are really straightforward," Jim started off saying. He continued, while pointing to his screen:

  • Trim this field to a maximum number of characters is another one of those select-the-option-and-more-options-appear checkboxes. When you select this option, you are given options not very different from when you set up a body field in a new content type. The first suboption is Maximum number of characters, a simple number-input field. You can limit a field to, say, 10 characters if you are using it for a button or something longer if you want a teaser-like introduction. Another option for trimming a field is Trim only on a word boundary, which limits the trimming to a word boundary. The trim length is then...