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Overview of this book

The Drupal View modules give you flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site's content. Although there are more than 100 views-enabled modules, few site administrators use Drupal Views to its full potential. This book will enable you to realize the fullest potential of this powerful resource by providing a wide variety of powerful recipes for creating and displaying a wide variety of views ñ essential classics you will use again and again to innovative display methods that will make your Drupal site stand out. Pick and choose the ones you would like to prepare for your web site. In this book you will find ninety-four recipes to create a wide selection of views. The list includes event listings, interactive calendars and timelines, maps, proximity search, podcasting, carousels, Views Fusion, and many more. You will also explore default views, views with CCK, and master a variety of ways to associate views with related content. Most people think of Views for site visitors. But Views can also be handy for site administrators. You will get to know the Views Bulk Operations module, along with Editable Fields, and Views Custom Fields. (You'll probably wonder why you never used them before!) If you want to take Views to the next level, the book contains a code-rich chapter on theming. However, you will find most of the recipes detailed by the author do not require any original coding at all. As you progress through the recipes, you will be immersed in such Drupal Views topics as fields, arguments, filters, exposed filters, sorting, style plug-ins, formatters, cloning and copying views. Because Drupal is a worldwide and ever adapting system, the author also includes great tips and resources for navigating the online Drupal community and expanding your knowledge of the recipes. Finally, there is an extensive Appendix, which includes listings of all default views, formatters and style plug-ins for Drupal 5, along with a categorized list of patches.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Drupal 5 Views Recipes
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
1
Default Views in Drupal 5 Modules
2
Formatters
3
Style Plugins
4
Views Hooks for Coders
5
Modules Included in Recipe Ingredients
6
Additional Resources and Modules Mentioned in Recipes
7
Selected Noteworthy Patches to Views
8
Index

Chapter 2. Working with Default Views

Right out of the box, the Drupal Views module provides six pre-made "default" views that you can rapidly incorporate into your site. While serving your site, the default views can also serve as a valuable learning resource, providing keys to understanding a number of advanced Views features. Using default views as examples we will have the chance in this chapter to introduce all but one of the primary Views fieldsets.

With only core Drupal and Views installed, you will initially see just four default views. There are displayed at the bottom of the page at http://YOURSITE.com/admin/build/views.

Two more default views become available when you enable the core Statistics module.

Default views are created in code (by contrast, most views reside in the views tables in the Drupal database). Any contributed module may create one or more default views. Appendix A contains a list of close to 200 default views from sixty contributed Drupal 5 modules.

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