By AndersEkman on
My site has lots of entity reference fields. The option to format the field as rendered content of type teaser is neat, but I would like to have more flexibility (for instance sorting, filtering, pagination). Is there a module with a field formatter that lets me use a view to display entity references? I have searched for it, but found nothing. In case there is no module for this, I will consider writing one (my first!), but I would like to make sure I am not reinventing the wheel before I start coding away.
(I know this could be achieved by creating a block and then moving the block to the right spot, but in my opinion that is quite an ugly solution.)
Any thoughts on this would be welcome.
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It sounds like you want to
It sounds like you want to use eva instead of an entity reference field, eva will allow you to associate a view with a field. And speaking of blocks, that approach also works, add the block reference field and you can handle it as a field.
For more control there is display suite and panels, both make it possible to overrider the page display of a node.
Thanks!
Thank you for your reply!
I tried EVA and Block reference. Both modules can solve the problem, but they require a bit of extra setup for every field. For EVA I didn't use it instead of Entity Reference, but together with it. I hid the ER field, then attatched a view, that with the help of a relation and a contextual filter only show the entitys referenced in the ER field. Is that the sort of approach you had in mind or am I missing something?
I'm a bit afraid to use DS or Panels - they are sort of game changers to have you manage your site, and a bit to big for a small problem like this. But you are off course right to recommend them.
So I think I will still consider writing a module for it, partly for the fun. Or would that be a completely unnecesarry piece of code?
I think since there are
I think since there are existing solutions it would be an unnecessary piece of code.