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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 63: Views Calculations


Note

Ingredients

Completed Recipe 1, swim_groups

Views Calc module: http://drupal.org/project/views_calc

The Views Calc module offers sums, counts, and averages for view rows and columns. The module does its math on a page-by-page basis, so the easiest way to perform a calculation on all the items is to set the view's Nodes Per Page value to be equal or larger than the number of nodes in the view.

  1. Install and enable the Views Calc module.

  2. Clone the swim_groups view, at admin/build/views/swim_groups/clone. Name the view swim_groups_count and change the url to swim-groups-count. Set the view type to Calc Table View and ensure that at least one field is displaying in the Fields section.

  3. Select the Views for which calculations will be enabled at admin/config/views_calc. In our case, we'll select only the swim_groups_count view.

  4. Configure Views Calc Fields for the swim_groups_count view by selecting the Configure Fields tab at admin/config/views_calc/view. Open the View...