Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 9 ■ Views
Figure 9-4. The All Articles view page
Block Display
With the full listing of Articles page under our belt, let’s now revise the Block display. Return to the Views
administration page by navigating to Manage ➤ Structure ➤ Views. Locate the Recent Articles view and click
the Edit link in the Operations column. You should now see the Recent Articles view configuration page
(see Figure 9-3).
The first step in the process is to click the Block button in the View display list. You should be able
to find it directly to the right of the All Articles Page button. Clicking the Block button displays all of the
configuration parameters for the block. Let’s update the display to only show the three most recent Article
titles, sorted in date-published order, descending so that the most recent Article appears at the top of the
page. Let’s start the process by updating the name of our display from Block to something more descriptive,
followed by making the changes we need to make to the display itself:
1. In the first column, next to “Display name,” click Block and change the value of
the “Administrative name” field to “Recent Articles Block.”
2. Leave the Title as Recent Articles, as it still applies to what we are going
to display.
3. Leave the Format as “Unformatted list,” as we still want the articles to appear
as a list.
4. Change the value of the Show option to Fields, as we only want to display the title
of the Articles in our list.
5. In the Fields section, leave the item to be displayed as the title. If it doesn’t say
Title, click the Add button for that section and search for Title, adding it to
the display.
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