Summary

In this chapter, we completed our exploration of the Views edit screen by looking at the advanced settings. Contextual filters and relationships were covered in depth in the previous chapters. Many of the remaining settings are straightforward, and in some respects, the Advanced settings column is a sort of miscellaneous settings collection. However, a few are very powerful, such as Use AJAX, which will change the way your website renders content that is spread across several subpages. Others change the SQL queries being generated to combine the results, which is important if there is a lot of data to display, and this detail isn't relevant to site visitors.

In the next chapter, we'll finish our dive into Views by learning how to theme ...

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