Building a Drupal Commerce product catalog

How a node is displayed depends on the context in which it is viewed, such as the difference between full nodes and teasers. On the page for field display management there are extra settings under the label custom display settings. The settings consist of a check box list of all view modes available for nodes, marking which view modes should have customized display settings. In a standard Drupal installation only teaser is checked, resulting in two sub tabs on the manage display page – default and teaser. The sub tabs lead to separate settings for each view mode.

In a standard Drupal installation, the following view modes are available:

• Full content: This is normally used only when visiting the URL for a particular node.
• Teaser: This is used on two list types – the front page and taxonomy term lists.
• RSS: These settings are used when including the node in RSS feeds.
• Search index: This is used when Drupal's Search module indexes content on the site. Fields that are hidden in this view mode will not be searchable.
• Search result: This is used when presenting search results on the website.