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Using computed fields in Drupal 11 and Views

Kevin — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:53:33 GMT

Using computed fields in Drupal 11 and Views

Every so often I run into something in Drupal that reminds me why I still enjoy working with it after all these years. Recently, while working with the Group module, I needed to display a few pieces of dynamic information: the number of members in each group and a handful of user thumbnails. I wanted these values both on the Group entity itself and inside a Views listing like a “Group Directory” page.

That led me to computed fields, how they behave on entities, how they behave in Views, and why you often need two different implementations even though the logic is the same.

Kevin November 24th, 2025

Manually Add Breadcrumb Links in Drupal 8

Kevin — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Manually Add Breadcrumb Links in Drupal 8

In Drupal, most breadcrumb generation and navigation is sufficient by basing it off of the menu hierarchy with the Menu Breadcrumb module.

This works great except in certain edge cases, such as nodes that do not have menu placement, and Views pages which may exist, but not have a set menu link. Neither Drupal core nor Menu Breadcrumb have a way to handle this scenario.

Kevin February 16th, 2017

Overriding Output for Search API Fields in Views

Kevin — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Overriding Output for Search API Fields in Views

Just wanted to share a quick example of overriding a field output from Search API if the value isn’t exactly what you want.

In my case, I am indexing the URI of a node and have a design requirement to output it as a link in the result, but it has to contain the host and scheme (http://www.example.com/path/to/node). Out of the box, Search API is only returning the “/path/to/node” portion, which QA quickly kicked back to me.

Kevin February 2nd, 2017