Fedora Insight: Creating a new View in Drupal for FWN issue

[Paul W. Frields]

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-working-with-views-and-cck/

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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