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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Matt Glaman
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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Matt Glaman

Overview of this book

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes. We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Providing an Entity Reference result View


The Entity reference field, covered in Chapter 2, The Content Authoring Experience, can utilize a custom view for providing the available field values. The default entity reference field will display all available entities of the type it can reference. The only available filter is based on the entity bundle, such as only returning Article nodes. Using an entity reference view, you can provide more filters, such as only returning the content that your user has authored.

In this recipe, we will create an entity reference view that filters content by the author. We will add the field to the user account form, allowing users to select their favorite contributed content.

How to do it...

  1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views that have been created. Click on Add view to create a new view.
  2. Set the View name to My Content Reference View, and retain the current View settings configuration.
  3. Do not choose...