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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

What are relationships?


After Jim and Lynn had gotten their coffee, they sat down at a table and Jim got out his pad of paper. "Let's take a look at the relationships between the various content types you have defined on your site." He drew a diagram that looked like this:

Blue Drop Realty content type relationships

Blue Drop website relationships

"Okay, your site has four main content types: Property, Realtor, Property Owner, and Open House. They are related to each other, so the field_property_realtor in Property references the Realtor nodes, the field_property_owners in Property references the Property Owner nodes, and the field_open_house_property_refe in Open House references the Property nodes.

There are two other entity references that Drupal created for you when you put taxonomy term fields in your content type. This is a bit of a change from Drupal 7, but mostly in terminology since everything in Drupal 8 is an entity, whereas in Drupal 7, taxonomy terms were still partly special.

Entity...