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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It has been very enlightning. I will go and try it myself now :)
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.
This was exactly what I was looking for - THANKS!
the video is not available anymore
The video is indeed available.
how to get the local site online
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.
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)
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.
Thanks guys, but it would really help if you could keep the compression to a point where text is still readable.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
Thanks for this clip!! Helps a great deal!!!
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