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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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William Hurley William Hurley
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Sean Montague Sean Montague
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Using advanced features


When you start to edit the View, you see an entire section in the right-hand side of the screen collapsed and labeled Advanced. In there are a host of useful settings controlling how the database is queried, what fields can be displayed, how caching is implemented, and how filters and pagers work.

Relationships

A relationship is a way for a View to traverse a connection to another type of entity. For example, in the list of articles with the content revision author, we were able to get the username of the author, but no other information. There are a number of fields like this that allow some small amount of information from each node, but not all of it. In order to get more information about the content revision author, or the taxonomy terms that have been applied to a node, or information about nodes that are referenced from or reference that node, you need to create a relationship.

With the view of articles from earlier let us add some more information about the author...

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