![]() We need to build a custom module for our code. Just for fun, letâs add another field to also give the floor area in square meters. We want our view to present the number of bedrooms and bathrooms as separate fields. Here, a single field contains both the number of bedrooms and the number of bathrooms on two lines. It has the following among its fields:įield_floor_area The floor area in square feet as an integer.įield_rooms The number of bedrooms and bathrooms combined in one text field.įield_rooms is formatted in an unusual way. Letâs say we have a content type called House. The following example is somewhat contrived but similar to my real world problem. The best place for code is in files and saved in source control. The future of Views will have: Global: Custom image -> Provide custom image. Global: View result counter -> Displays the actual position of the view result. That works and maybe is fine in some situations, but it usually leads to code being stored in the database and executed with eval() which is undesirable for several reasons. As i see there are only 2 options for Global Fields in views : Global: Custom text -> Provide custom text or link. There are modules that enable you to create calculated fields with the UI. The following approach is nothing new but it manipulates the data into the desired shape early in the process. ![]() ![]() Normally you can assign a URL path in page display of the view and then access. These look and feel like real fields in a view but donât actually exist in the database.Ä«efore I knew more about hook_views_data, I tried manipulating data with other views api hooks. Drupal views are really powerful and you get a lot of functionality out of the box. Among all this functionality, itâs easy to miss the fact that it gives us a simple way to add extra âvirtualâ or âcalculatedâ fields. It gives you the ability to add database tables, define relationships and fields for those tables, define sorting and filtering etc. Hook_views_data is a powerful hook at the heart of Views. I didnât want to change the stored data but I wanted to create a new field to present this data in a more convenient format. A recent Drupal 7 project I worked on had some data stored in an unusual way that I wanted to export in a cleaner, better defined format using the Views and Views Data Export modules.
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