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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

Adding Twig Template Suggestions for Form Elements

Kevin — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Adding Twig Template Suggestions for Form Elements

Last week, I had to solve a problem where a prototyped form contained a button element and svg icon for the submit button on three search forms.

While you can change the type of a input from submit to button in Drupal 8, that does not change the tag the form element uses.

I needed a clean solution that allowed me to provide the markup and svg icon without interfering with the function of the form itself.

Here is the output I needed to achieve:

Kevin January 28th, 2017

Quick Drupal 8 Theming Tips

Kevin — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Quick Drupal 8 Theming Tips

If you are theming an entity (in this case, node) and you want to display the created or changed date in a different format, you can use the following to do just that. In my case, I am creating a couple of view modes with their respective twig templates and need to show post dates in a few different formats.

Use getCreatedTime to fetch the node created date, and use format_date against it, supplying a date format machine name:

Kevin January 13th, 2017