The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.On the 'display fields' tab of a content type it would be great to set different view displays for teaser and full node output for a viewfield field.
Selecting from a list of view displays would be unworkable so I propose the patch below which adds a 'linked' viewfield formatter. The 'linked' formatter uses the linked view display as set in the view's 'more link' options to render the viewfield field. Typically the selected viewfield would be a block display with the viewfield's teaser format set to 'default' and it's full node set to 'linked'.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | viewfield-519060.patch | 3.24 KB | chaps2 |
Comments
Comment #1
chaps2 commentedHere is the patch...
Comment #2
ak commented+1 Subscribing …
Comment #3
sunI totally do not understand what this patch is doing. Needs 1) a better explanation and 2) better code comments. :)
Comment #4
sunWe should find a solution for this in the D7 branch. The idea to re-use the 'linked' view isn't bad, but perhaps Field API in D7 provides us new options.
Comment #5
chaps2 commented@sun - I missed your comment on this last year but given that 1) you now seem to understand what the patch is doing and 2) I could very easily add some code comments is there any reason not to include it in 6.x? It's a very useful feature.
Comment #6
SilviuChingaru commentedYou can always make a new viewfield, with another view to be displayed only in teaser or any other node display.
I don't see why change this module core when field api give us this ability already?!