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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

Summary


The first relationship added to the Available Property Listing view was for the neighborhood taxonomy. In previous versions of Drupal, taxonomies were handled differently, but in Drupal 8, they are just entity references. Extending the taxonomy case to entity types defined in custom content types, the property listing was enhanced to include the listing of realtor(s) names and phone numbers, which are stored in a Realtor content type, separate from the Property content type being displayed. That showed that even though the Title field was used twice in the display, adding the relationship to the second use displayed realtor names instead of property addresses. Finally, an attached display showed how to use a reverse relationship to show open houses for the properties displayed with the Selectable Page display. Inheriting exposed filters and relationships that use a field that is itself defined by a relationship were demonstrated.

The next chapter adds more Display Formats using add...