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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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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

Formatting rows


Creating your first View through the wizard starts with outputting the title of the node. There are a great number of options available to customize the output of each element loaded by the View.

Row styling

Each row from the View can be output in different ways. You can change the output type by clicking on the link next to the label for Show, showing the currently selected row format.

Row styling options dialog

Fields

The initial row styling from the View wizard is to display fields. These fields are either fields on the entity or aggregates or meta-fields defined by different modules. A View created by the wizard starts with the field for Content: Title. Additional fields can be added by clicking on the link for Add next to the section title for Fields. Many of the options are the same as shown in the dialog for filtering a View:

Add new field dialog

Imagine that, for our current list of articles, we want to display the author of the node as well. We can enter the term author...

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