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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

Pager


"Okay, Jackson, let's look at the last setting in the second view edit column: pager. We'll be finished soon.

Pagers allow views to display a lot of data without creating a page that could be infinitely long. Drupal defaults to showing 10 items per page and using a full pager. I know from experience with my old site and building views so far that if I set the number of items per page to 0 when I create a new view, the pager will be disabled, and the view will display everything. For my test site with a few properties, this probably is fine, but if I were on the national multiple listing service with maybe a million properties, showing all them on the same page would take forever to display and be useless to navigate.

Available property listing with full pager

Replacing Drupal 7's mini pager

I also remember Jim saying that the default pager is a resource hog that will significantly slow down my site when the total possible number of items to display gets big as the pager first counts how...