Views Nodes With Fields

Experimental project

This is a sandbox project, which contains experimental code for developer use only.

Views currently only allows for node displays or field displays, but not both. Sometimes there's a need to display full nodes, but also use specific field values from a query.

Imagine a situation where one piece of content references three other pieces of content. If the view needs to show those three pieces of content as full nodes, but also needs to use the values in the first field to make the title, its not possible. This module helps solve this problem by providing a full node display that also allows you to chose fields to show.

When enabled, your views will have a new display option called "Content with Fields". Just like the normal content screen, the view results will display in either full or teaser mode. If you are using content relationships, you can even chose which side of the relationship content will be rendered from.

The added bonus comes in that you can also select fields you want to specifically work with. These fields won't display on the screen, but can be used wherever view tokens are used. this could be the title, arguments headers, footers etc.

also included is a new feature to allow a field related to the node being rendered to chose the display mode of that node. This is good if in the first example, a field were provided that said 'only show as teasers', and another node wanted it's related content to show as full nodes. the view, using this setup could handle both easily.