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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

By : Gregg Marshall
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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 the sort order


"You know, Jackson, my property list will not be very useful if the only way people can view it is in the order of when we added the properties to the website." Jackson had taken up his usual position next to Lynn's monitor; this time, he brought a toy of his own to play with. "But there is this whole section in the View edit screen labeled Sort Criteria, so let's see whether we can figure out a more reasonable way to order this list."

Deleting a sort criteria

Lynn decided to delete the default sort criteria Content: Authored on. Thinking that she could delete a sort criteria using the same pull-down that she would use to add a sort criteria, she tried it and was surprised to find only Add and Rearrange as options. "Hmm, this isn't obvious, is it, Jackson"?

Then, remembering that when she is editing content, there is a Delete link at the bottom of the edit screen next to Save, she decided to try editing the one sort criteria listed. So, she clicked on the title Content...