Not able to alter field value/s using hook_views_pre_render or views api hook functions

Question

I have a search result page created using search api and views. My search result page is based on this tutorial and it seems to work properly,however I need to tweak some field's output value and I used hook_views_pre_render to try to alter the field values however I cant see my fields that I added from the views UI interface on the $view->result array but they are rendered on the page. All I see when I krumo($view->result) is (see attached image).

I seem to only get entity and entity_properties array but not the fields in the array. I need to access the field to make the necessary tweaks like we have in the normal $view->result.

Answer 1

This is not a specific answer for your situation but I would like to advise you a better way of managing it.

Instead of rendering the views using Fields you can render each row by rendering as Content where you can choose a dedicated View mode which can be easily overridden using the standard template_preprocess_node.

This will bring a lot more flexibility in your Web application.