Views 2 Overview

On this week's podcast, Bob gives a general 'lay of the land' on the Views 2 module for Drupal. Views 1 is powerful and totally awesome, but Views 2 will rock your world (after you stare at the new interface blankly for a half hour). This podcast gives you a quick tour of the new interface in order to get you started.

Excellent--thank you! How does one display a custom created field (like date)? I tried to add one via "Fields => Node", but to no avail. Thanks again.
Hey Justin... If you're using DateAPI, look under "Global" instead of "node". You'll find the general date fields there.
Thanks Bob. It was actually under "Content"; thanks again!
Great intro to view2. You have inspired me. I have a couple of new sites to work on and I will take the plunge now. I need to do more with D6 anyway. :) I hope to learn more about the ajax options in views2. I need to play with that one. Thanks much! Shrop
Just wanna thank you for excellent video podcasts. /rob in Sweden
I was so lost trying to figure this out on my own. Now that I understand the interface I'm able to figure out the rest of it. I'm doing a redesign of our site to take advantage of Drupal 6.
Great tutorial! I've created a couple of views for myself and they work great. This may be a dumb question, but I'm having some trouble actually calling these views into pages. For instance, I have a view I want to include in each user's profile, that shows the articles written by that particlar user. How would I "hook up" a user page to the view I've made?
Godspeed your work! These video podcast are really useful for god's work!
how can i change workflow states by clicking buttons. i can do it with inbuilt radio buttons but i want ordinary button click on contents to change its states
Hi, Thanks for your screencasts. I have learned a lot from them. Can you make a screencast about permission? I want different groups of people to get access to different content. There is far less documentation on that Thanks
Finally someone who will show how to use Views 2 from start to finish. Thank you for your posts.
Hey, Am in the process of changing my static website to a drupal one and have found your videos extremely helpful. Just watched this one about views and wanted to give you a big thumbs up - so thanks for taking the time to create these! Regards Matt
Just to thank you for thee really useull and well done podcasts!
great module. there is a way to pass a parameter to a view. but I can not figure it out. I have not spent much time playing wiht it, but perhaps you could do a second installment talking about this. Another poscast idea. How about panels 2? you can demonstrate taking a panel block in views2 and displaying it in a panel. But also, demonstrate how you can reference the view with a paramter. perhaps how you can have multiple blocks reference each other. And please dont forget to talk about what "CONTEXT" means.
Bob, thanks for a very informative, easy-to-understand, high quality video podcast. Did you encounter any configuration issues after first installing views 2? Based on a tutorial over at drupaltherapy.com for Date and Calendar on Views 2 i attempted to update the style from 'unformatted' to calendar and got an error: An error occurred at http://sandbox.dev/admin/build/views/ajax/display/date_browser/default/s... I have: Drupal 6.9 Views 6.x-2.3 Calendar 6.x-2.0-rc6 any clues? Thanks again. Your podcasts are enriching and expanding my experience.
Hi Bob Thanks for spending your time doing this. Just a suggestion. Could you please show an example on how to create a directory listing like yahoo if it's easy. Also please put in some Google adsense on your site, so we can contribute to your effort. cheers Ed
I have been searching all over the place and I have yet to find any good tutors for using Views 2 Attachment Display for customizing your home page. I have seen a few articles from people saying using the attachment display was great for doing this, but no one tells you how, other than to use attachment display. I would love to see a video on doing this. This would be the layout. A welcome node (page type) at the top in FULL view. Below the welcome node, are displayed the last 4 nodes in teaser view. Everyone tells me I need to use the attachment display to make this happen. But darn, after days of trying to figure it out, I'm thinking it is more complex than my expertise. I searched google and very little info is to be found except for people saying that using the attachment display was great, but no actual explanation on how. Please, please do a video on how to do this. Since I have been posting on drupal forum a lot of others seem to be interested in the same thing but are just as confused on how to do it.
First of all, thank you so much! I'm just learning Drupal and out of all the video tutorials yours are the best so far. Keep up the great work. I haven't gotten through all of these yet so I apologize in advance if this issue has already been addressed. I would love to see a tutorial showing how to customize themes. Changing out the header graphics; adding additional menus beyond the primary and secondary; utilizing graphics buttons for menu links; and even adding our own blocks. Thanks again.
Thank you so very much for your very useful screencasts! How can I handle multi-lingual content, nodes that are translated, in Views? I want the user to only see lists of content in the language that has been chosen? Regards Henrik
Great Question Henrik, And the answer is....I don't know :) I can only assume that the user will see the translated version of the Views content when the view is built so you shouldn't need to do anything. I can't confirm that, but from what I know about the back end, that should "just work". Good luck!
After tearing my hair out trying to learn things 17 different ways, I found you. Thank you, thank you, a million times thank you.
How to Embed Two Views on the Same Page
Hi, Please help me. I don't know how list taxonomy terms refer author content. I have taxonomy Vocabulary: Contry , Terms: New York, LA, etc, How display list terms only when author have create content. For example autor1: create 5 reviews about NY places... View Block need display term "NY" one time Thanks :)
Hi Bob, I am developing a non-profit website that will show elder care facilities and related details but I cannot figure out how to show this on one page. An easy way to explain this is to use a cities-states example. Let's say I have two database tables, one contains all of the cities within a state and the state the city is within. The other contains the states and description data, etc. When a user selects a state, I want to show a page about that state, a description, a picture, etc., plus a list of all of the cities in the state and shown in such a way that the user can click on any of the cities to go to a page about that city. I this an app for views? panels? or whatever? Can you show us how to implement this sort of page of related information? Thanks much. I get a lot out of your tutorials.
I just wanted to let you know that I understand how busy your life must be running a web design shop, and popping a video tutorial and podcasts online weekly! I just want to say thanks. Drupal has been a seemingly unconquerable learning wall, and your screencasts have given me a ladder.
This video really help me out a lot, thanks! I am using the tracker view to display 1 recent post in a blog. Do you know how I can make it grab a random post in a specific taxonomy? Thanks again.
spent ages struggling doing the "update default" thing and not seeing the override button! thanks!
Hi Bob! I'd just like to say a big thank you for the great podcasts. You've made them to a very high standard and they are really enjoyable to watch. I like your straightforward, no-nonsense style.
Hello Bob Thank you for your podcasts. Could you make a podcast dealing with displaying CCK fields in RSS? I am stuck! Thank you Michael