sorting rendered entities ?

By DrupalDope on 14 Nov 2015 at 12:56 UTC

I have a node that displays an unlimited number of related "rendered entities" - I see they are displayed according to their NID in ascending order. How can I display them according to date created, descending order? The sorting option available within "manage fields" does not seem to affect output.

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I'm sorry your post isn't

babipanghang commented 14 November 2015 at 15:39

I'm sorry your post isn't completely clear to me, but to my knowledge a node does not "display an unlimited number of related entities". That would be functionality usually provided by views, and most likely added to the page as a block. So you can probably find the sorting options you want amongst your views.

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Well, the node does that

DrupalDope commented 14 November 2015 at 18:28

Well, the node does that through an entity reference field with a 1-n cardinality, it's even possible to add pagination.
Views would be my second choice if fixing the sort order in that field doesn't work, because views is so damn difficult because unfriendly and confusing.

An entity reference field in

babipanghang commented 14 November 2015 at 21:40

An entity reference field in itself doesn't display rendered related entities either, unless some contrib module added that functionality. However, the most likely situation is still that you are looking at an existing view in a block, and that you need to change that view in order to change the sorting order.

On the subject of views: it takes some getting used to to appreciate it. There is enough documentation and tutorials out there (ask google about it). Even then, changing a sort order shouldn't be hard, even when having little experience with views.

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the output of rendered

DrupalDope commented 15 November 2015 at 05:12

the output of rendered entities as an unlimited items list is a native funtion of the entity reference module.

see here:
http://atendesigngroup.com/blog/getting-started-references-drupal

I checked the views, but no view is active on my site, so nothing to modify there.

ok, I found a catch 22.

DrupalDope commented 15 November 2015 at 20:16

ok, I found a catch 22.
I have correctly setup a view that gives me the desired results *in the view*
I have successfully used the view instead of the simple filter on the entity reference field.

and here is the catch: the sorting in the "manage fields" section only applies to the "add content" form. indeed, the reviews are sorted and filtered in every way I could want them to be, but it only applies to the "add content" form.
the entity reference field that gets published remained unimpressed.

the display is controlled by "manage display", where the entity reference field does not offer any sorting options.
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so, now I need to figure out how to get my view displayed? is it possible to add it as a display field ?

viewreference

Esi commented 2 December 2015 at 16:40

Try https://www.drupal.org/project/viewreference.
It is not the most elegant option and you must re-save all nodes with the correct view display selected but it will work and you can manage it like a field in the display settings.