Re: Fedora Insight: Creating a new View in Drupal for FWN issue
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:12:23PM -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote:
Hi folks --
I am reporting out to the list what I've learned to date regarding
creating a new View with Drupal for Fedora Weekly News all in one page.
Paul had created two fields using the Content Construction Kit (aka
CCK)[1] module in Drupal for FWN issue and beat, and added these to the
content creation form[2] . The default view for this was to associate
each beat's Drupal node to a Book that constituted an FWN issue See FWN
239 as an early example[3]. What we needed to do next was create a new
View that would display all of the nodes from a particular issue in a
single page. Being someone who works in libraries, there are a lot of
sites that use Drupal[4], and I knew of this active group,
Drupal4Lib[4], a discussion list for libraries that use Drupal, so I
joined and asked around. Several posters pointed me to "passing an
argument via node id" to the view. That was a start, and I poked around
a bit and created a new View, with the content_issue field that Paul
created in the CCK passed to the view, and I set the path for the new
View to use /fwn. Finally, I entered some sort criteria to display the
issues in descending order, and applied a filter for the node type =
weekly news beat. Now I can reference all of the beats associated with
an issue easily -- ie. /fwn/247. I've marked up the latest FWN in just
such a way[6].
[1] http://drupal.org/project/cck
[2] http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal/node/add/fwnbeat
[3] http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal/node/2
[4] http://groups.drupal.org/libraries/resources
[5] http://drupalib.interoperating.info/node/88
[6] http://publictest4.fedoraproject.org/drupal/fwn/247
What remained was to display the title of each beat, since this was
passed in the CCK as a hidden variable. So I edited the "Weekly news
beat" content type, managing the fields, and turned the Beat Label from
"Hidden" to "Above" in the "Display fields" tab. For some
reason this
didn't work at first, so I figured I still have to mess around with the
View to make it visible. I can't actually see the title of each beat
yet, so will still keep on working with this, but have made definite
progress!
I've also blogged about this at:
http://pascalcalarco.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/drupal-6-and-fedora-insight...
Excellent update Pascal. The admin panel for the view shows you have
an old lock on the View, is it OK for me to break that and continue
modifying? Are your changes all saved?
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