Can I use view to filter by fields in referenced node?

Question

I have 2 node types: Project and Designer. I have a third node type Contribute with a body that explain the contribute and a field node reference with maximum 2 values that "links" the designer to the project that he contribute. I can reuse Contribute to link 2 Projects, or 2 Designers, but I can't do this:

In the Designer page I want 2 blocks: one containing the Contribute nodes that link that designer with some Project; one containing the Contribute nodes that link that designer to other Designer s.

With Views I can only create one single block listing all Contribute nodes that links the current node (from URL) to another node, I want to filter from the type or the tags of the nodes referenced in the field.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You want to look at adding Relationship(s) to your View.

You also likely want to look at Views Field View:

This module allows you to embed a view as a field in a view. A new field handler is made available, so this can also be used in area (header/footer/empty) handlers as well as rows.

This view handler can accept arguments from fields of the parent view using tokens and pass them into the child view for each row. Raw or rendered token values can be used, as well as static values.

Or Views Field:

Viewfield provides a field that holds a reference to a View and renders it whenever the entity containing the field is displayed.

Features

• Author chooses a view and display from a list.
• View arguments are supplied through tokens.
• Administrators may restrict which views may be assigned.
• Administrators may supply a common value that will be used for all entities in a content type.

Using either of these modules you can figure out your relationships for the views you want and for instance using ViewsField you can add a View to the Designer Content Type with 2 new Views: Contributed Project Nodes views, and a Similiar or Linked Designers View. You can pass the Designers uid as a token to filter these views.