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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

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Drupal 5 Views Recipes

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)
Drupal 5 Views Recipes
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Default Views in Drupal 5 Modules
Formatters
Style Plugins
Views Hooks for Coders
Modules Included in Recipe Ingredients
Additional Resources and Modules Mentioned in Recipes
Selected Noteworthy Patches to Views
Index

Recipe 58: Views Bonus Pack Export


Note

Ingredients

Views Bonus Pack module: http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus

Bonus Views Export module (comes with Views Bonus Pack, above)

The Views Bonus Pack comes with a number of style plugins. They are listed in the Views Style Plugins, Appendix C. One Views Bonus Pack module that is definitely worth incorporating into common practice is Views Export. The sample view below assumes that the location module is installed. However, any fields available to Views may be selected for export.

  1. Install the Views Bonus Pack module, and enable the Bonus: Views Export module.

  2. Create a Page View such as the following:

    Name

    export_addresses

    Description

    Export address to CSV

    Provide Page View

    Checked

    URL

    export-addresses

    View Type

    Views Bonus: CSV Export

    Title

    (The Title is ignored in the export.)

    Fields

    Select all the fields you wish to export to a comma-delimited file.

    Filters

    Node: Published Equals Yes

    Node: Type Is One Of Places (or the content type...