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Drupal 6 Attachment Views

By : J. Ayen Green
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Drupal 6 Attachment Views

By: J. Ayen Green

Overview of this book

<p>The Drupal View modules give you the flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site's content. Defining custom content types is easy; however, it's also possible to use various content types in a complementary manner on the same page! Attachment displays in Views (also known as Attachment Views), are a way to customize your web site with multiple displays that interact with each other and turn a nice site into a spectacular one.<br /><br />This hands-on tutorial will teach Drupal developers across the experience spectrum how to use Attachment displays in Views, to make quick progress in functionality and added-value to users! Views are a common way to display a collection of similar content types on one page. What do you do if you want to display different content types simultaneously? What if you want to allow a user to interactively select which content they want, without using a menu? You can actually have more than one display within a view and views within a view.<br /><br />This book starts by introducing Attachment Views as reader activities. Here, we create a single Attachment View and take a closer look at giving each page an interactive feel. It also shows you to create a View with an Attachment View. Later, using practical examples, it helps you to develop a 3-view composite display using two and three custom content types. You will also be able to develop a composite display using multiple Attachment Views, to provide a control panel of sorts from which you can view the various content types. Finally, we will put the home page together making use of Views, blocks, a flash slide show, and other pieces.<br /><br />This book provides several examples of introducing additional displays onto a web page, and having them interact with each other. The result is pages that provide several types of information and behave more like a desktop application, increasing the value to your site visitors.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Drupal 6 Attachment Views
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

ImageCache


Location: http://drupal.org/project/imagecache

ImageCache allows you to set up presets for image processing. If an ImageCache derivative doesn't exist, the web server's rewrite rules will pass the request to Drupal which in turn hands it off to ImageCache to dynamically generate the file. The following image shows the presets that are in use on the project site. Full and thumbnail are created by the module, and will be used for job photos. The bio type was created for use with the biography photograph. These presets are selectable as format options from within Views.

Here are the specifics for the bio preset.

Here are the specifics for the full preset. Even though this preset is created by the module, the specifics of its configuration can be altered to meet your needs, or it can be deleted entirely.

Here are the permissions for this module. The administer and flush permissions will be retained for User 1.