Introduction To Views

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 14:21

This video gives you a very basic introduction to the views module in Drupal 6.

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Eli Baskin's picture
Submitted by Eli Baskin (not verified) on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 06:11.

Thank you

It has been very enlightning. I will go and try it myself now :)

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Submitted by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 12:43.

This was very helpful

Had trouble trying to get just the title fields showing up (I think a cache problem) and the interface seems to have changed slightly with the version I download for drupal six a few days ago. Great walkthrough though, looking forward to more.

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 09:18.

Great job! Give us more!

This was exactly what I was looking for - THANKS!

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 05:38.

the video is not available anymore

the video is not available anymore

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 20:32.

The video is indeed

The video is indeed available.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 13:07.

can u put a drop about going online

how to get the local site online

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 13:30.

Coming Soon

I plan to create a screencast that walks through the process of taking the local site to the web as part of the Getting Started With Drupal series of videos.

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Submitted by Gunnar (not verified) on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 10:36.

Git?

Perhaps show a bit more advanced move from developement to production by using git (or any other VCS)?

I know a lot would love it, after learning to use version control you'll never go back :P

(i'd give it a try myself, but my voice irritates even me :P)

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 00:09.

"(i'd give it a try myself,

"(i'd give it a try myself, but my voice irritates even me :P)" haha that's funny!

Thanks for the help, very useful

~kraymer

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Submitted by Richard (not verified) on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 12:17.

On the whole I've found Rob's

On the whole I've found Rob's videos to be very useful, but he often misses one important thing, and this video is a classic example. In the introduction no overview is provided of what exactly can be achieved with the views module. A 30 second overview of why you might want to use views at the start would be incredibly useful. Often in Rob's videos I find myself unsure of what he's trying to achieve until right at the very end. From a learner's perspective this should be clear from the start, even if it's presented in a simple, bullet point fashion at the start of the tutorial.

There is no doubt that learnbythedrop provides invaluable video resources for learning Drupal, but with some tweaking the lessons could be a bit better in my opinion.

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Submitted by ngaur (not verified) on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 23:34.

Shame about the visual quality

Thanks guys, but it would really help if you could keep the compression to a point where text is still readable.

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 07:43.

Premium Videos Are Sharper

The free versions of the videos are encoded optimized for the iPhone at 480x320. The premium versions are encoded at full size, which is usually 1024x768 and look very sharp.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 09:50.

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So, once you create a view (I can't even do that as I get some fields warning), how do you actually use it? How do you assign something to point to it? It's probably a silly question but I've no idea.

learnbythedrop's picture
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 21:06.

Create A Page View

Views allows you to create blocks, pages, rss feeds and even slideshows. So one way to use it is to create a "page" view as in the following link and then create a menu item that links to the page. Or you can make the page view you created the front page.

http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/85

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 04:44.

How do I create more advanced views in views2?

Views used to allow you to create a page of topic (taxonomy) links that then (when you click the taxonomy links) lead you to a page of teasers like the one Rob shows here - I haven't been able to import my old views to views2 and I am looking for information how to do this in views2. Anyone know? Anyone able to point me to a (non screencast) page of views2 recipe's or something?

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 08:54.

Importing Views

I haven't done any exporting and importing of views myself so I don't have anything to add. As I've upgraded sites from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 I've rebuilt the views from scratch.

HY's picture
Submitted by HY (not verified) on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 13:46.

Thanks for this clip!! Helps

Thanks for this clip!! Helps a great deal!!!

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Submitted by Mateo (not verified) on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 21:59.

About Views Filters

Hi, I have a question about views filters. I want to filter two CCK fields (or more), but I want to list the articles that are of one type and also the articles which are from the other type...so if i set the 2 filters no articles appears because none articles has the two content fiels...It's difficlt to explain. The CCK field it's not the same with different values. Image that some articles has the CCK field "Age" and other the CCK field "Colour". I set 2 filters, one for the articles colour blue, and other for the age 20, but i dont want to listo only the one's that have blue color and age 20, but all the ones that has blue colour, no matter of the age is 20, and all the ones that has age 20, no matter the colour.
How can I set VIews to show me what I told you?
Thanks for the help and sory for my english

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Submitted by dhanesh mane (not verified) on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 05:43.

Re: Introduction To Views

Hey thanks for cool information, it really saved hours. I was working on views module since long and this tut help me a lot.

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Submitted by sahil (not verified) on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 08:13.

Re: Introduction To Views

hi
thanks for this tutorial .
i m newbie in drupal.
i have one question.
can we make a view which shows the user avatar/picture in recent comment block in drupal 6.

thanks & regards