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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

Adding realtor information to the property listings


Jim pulled up the site on his computer and logged in. Selecting the property listing view, he started to edit it. Clicking on Add next to RELATIONSHIPS and entering realtor into the search field, he got the following display:

Adding a relationship to realtor

"Okay, from what we just discussed, which one should we use?" Jim asked.

Lynn replied, "The first one, Content referenced from field_property_realtors."

"Good," Jim replied. "Although, either would actually work here. In most cases, Views can work with either, it's better to pick the right one. I'd say the realtor should be on all these displays, don't you?"

"Sure."

He selected All displays (except overridden) in the For selection list and clicked on Apply (all displays).

On the next modal, Lynn asked what the option Require this relationship meant.

"Require this relationship forces the SQL query generated by Views to limit the results to just those rows in the table that actually have the...