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Mastering Drupal 8 Views

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 Views Build sophisticated displays of your Drupal content, all without programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785886966
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gregg Marshall Gregg Marshall
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Preface 1. Up and Running with Views FREE CHAPTER 2. Views from Scratch 3. Sorting and Filtering 4. Contextual Filters 5. Relationships 6. Add-on Modules 7. Field Rewrites 8. Customizing Views 9. Advanced View Settings 10. Theming Views A. Content Types for a Sample Site Index

Making Views go fast


The last setting, Caching, is actually very important for Drupal performance. I'm surprised to see this view has caching disabled. If you remember way back when you started on this learning journey, one of the advanced Views general settings is to disable caching on a global basis. The description for this option says that it will have a serious performance impact on your site, which is really true. Views is a SQL query builder that can generate complex and time-consuming database queries. You don't want to execute them any more than you have to, especially if your data doesn't change in real time, which is true for most websites.

Caching types

Assuming you want caching, you need to decide what kind. One option is Time based, which is the kind of caching most used by Drupal 7 and before. This option basically says "wait for some period of time", an option that appears if you select the option when rerunning the query if you have already run it before. After this period...

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