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Configuring Views relationships

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1. Overview of Views FREE 3m
2. Overview of the Views user interface FREE 15m
3. Creating a new view 7m
4. Displaying content & fields with Views formats 18m
5. Adding fields to a Views table 15m
6. Controlling HTML markup with Views style settings 9m
7. Configuring Views relationships 9m
8. Using Views displays to create variations 20m
9. Setting up private views with access control 20m
10. Creating exposed filters & filter groups 18m
11. Creating dynamic views with a contextual filter 16m
12. Creating an attachment display 16m
13. Creating a view of users 19m
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Views relationships let you add related information to your view. Here is how you can take advantage of various references, like node and user references, or file information. We'll be using relationships to add some contact details to our Job openings view.

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steve.morreale on August 24, 2011 - 11:29pm

Very useful! There was a blank period towards the end of this video when you were telling us your summary. Excellent demonstration, a complicated task made very easy and understandable! Thank you!

-Steve

agalligani on September 22, 2011 - 1:38pm

The term "fieldable entity" comes up a lot. Besides nodes are there other fieldable entities? (I suppose a view is a fieldable entity...).

ThomasRendleman on January 7, 2012 - 10:34pm

I noticed that one your pull down menus in views you can select users. With my site that doesn't happen. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere or has views removed that?

add1sun on January 9, 2012 - 11:31am

Hi Thomas,

Are you referring to the select list that is in the Views wizard that asks what kind of view you wish to create (Show ___ of type ___ ...)? Or in another place? In the Views wizard Users is a core item that is always available, so I don't know why you wouldn't be able to see it there. You may want to search in the Views issue queue (http://drupal.org/project/issues/views?categories=All). I'd also recommend making sure that your Views is up to the latest version.

continent7 on January 19, 2012 - 10:15am

Hello,
you did use https://drupal.org/project/references and neither https://drupal.org/project/entityreference nor https://drupal.org/project/relation to create the relations between the users and the nodes, right?

ThomasRendleman on January 19, 2012 - 10:33am

I had installed some modules and I think something went wrong. I used an older backup and reinstalled the database and now it seems to work fine. Thank you.

rvazquez on May 17, 2012 - 11:58am

I don't see the field "fields" under the dropdown menu when creating a Relationship for the contact person's phone number. I do have all the References modules enabled. Is there something else im missing

ThomasRendleman on May 17, 2012 - 12:08pm

RVAZQUEZ
Make sure you have Views Module Enabled.
Create and SAVE your view-relationship.
Create a user reference where you want to reference the user.
When you create the user reference it will have an option to reference your view.

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