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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 Views Build sophisticated displays of your Drupal content, all without programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785886966
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Up and Running with Views FREE CHAPTER 2. Views from Scratch 3. Sorting and Filtering 4. Contextual Filters 5. Relationships 6. Add-on Modules 7. Field Rewrites 8. Customizing Views 9. Advanced View Settings 10. Theming Views A. Content Types for a Sample Site Index

Changing how fields are output


Refreshed from getting up, getting more coffee, and having a quick rundown of Lynn's son's soccer game earlier in the week, Jim and Lynn sat down at his computer again.

"Before we get to my favorite option, let's do the rest of the field rewrite options as they are really straightforward," Jim started off saying. He continued, while pointing to his screen:

  • Trim this field to a maximum number of characters is another one of those select-the-option-and-more-options-appear checkboxes. When you select this option, you are given options not very different from when you set up a body field in a new content type. The first suboption is Maximum number of characters, a simple number-input field. You can limit a field to, say, 10 characters if you are using it for a button or something longer if you want a teaser-like introduction. Another option for trimming a field is Trim only on a word boundary, which limits the trimming to a word boundary. The trim length is then...

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