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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Using advanced features


When you start to edit the View, you see an entire section in the right-hand side of the screen collapsed and labeled Advanced. In there are a host of useful settings controlling how the database is queried, what fields can be displayed, how caching is implemented, and how filters and pagers work.

Relationships

A relationship is a way for a View to traverse a connection to another type of entity. For example, in the list of articles with the content revision author, we were able to get the username of the author, but no other information. There are a number of fields like this that allow some small amount of information from each node, but not all of it. In order to get more information about the content revision author, or the taxonomy terms that have been applied to a node, or information about nodes that are referenced from or reference that node, you need to create a relationship.

With the view of articles from earlier let us add some more information about the author...