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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

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...

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