Where in the Openpublish World are 'Articles' views, and 'Articles' context?!?

Thanks to those who have assembled this Drupal package, as this rich semantic information framework has impressive possibilities.

I've to conceed, I'm not a developper nor a tech-geek, but a french journalist (excuse my poor english writing knowledge). My interest in Openpublish is driven 'cause it's close to main needs of a digital publication and, go hundred steps farther.

I've tried to put hands on OP 1.5-309 with a very few results. For yesterday, I've installed and tried to customize OP 1.6-357, and it's really interesting, even amazing in some ways.

The lack of documentation makes the discovery of OP painfull.

• It takes me few nights to understand 'menu sections' (Health, Politics, etc.) was not yet implemented and not the main preoccupation for a Drupal based project.

• Using OP 1.5-309, I've undestood that 'views' give a way to gather nodes informations but, I've not been able to found a way to put those informations on stage (in fact, screen).

• Considering informations displayed on the page, I've not undestood how it belongs to a path as /articles/x-y-z... as I guess it would be usefull to qualify the sections with similar path /health/a-b-c, /politics/k-g-b, etc.).

So, I've cloned 'article' content form to create similar 'business' form, and clone 'Articles' view to create 'Business' views linked to 'business' content form, and '/articles/Business' path to be able displaying informations by using 'Business' entry on the main menu. It works but, i've been unable to build a composite 'business page' with ads, banner, etc. as I've not understood how to link content-view with template...

So come OP 1.6-357... TaaDaa !!!

Installation work well, except time necessary to run the two first parts that take about 6 to 10 minutes each (ok, I've to tell I don't have any Debian/Linux config. under hands, so I'm using M$-Windows with WampServer... pretty bad I gess).

So, I've discovered Context... It change everything.

My goal at this time is to implement contents relative to menu sections using the basic templates available, and adapt in a second step, the 'page(s)' template for beeing able to use the 'package' content.

The 'cloning' approach seems efficient for the basic sections (business, health, politics, etc.). Beeing unable to create path for business, health, etc. on a runnig OP installation, I've modified 'openpublish.profile' (in 'profiles/openpublish') to add new variables in the pathauto section, as:

variable_set('pathauto_node_business_pattern', 'business/[title-raw]');

I've also cloned the 'article.inc' file (in 'profiles/openpublish/cck'), and changed the inside references to 'article' content form, to get business.inc, health.inc, and so-on... I've also cloned node-article.tpl.php template in the /sites/all/themes/openpublish_theme/node directory to get node-business.tpl.php, and so-on...

But, I've not been able to found views, and corresponding context files to clone...

Proceeding to a classic installation, I got the corresponding 'content' forms, belonging to corresponding /articles/xyz... path, ready to display in corresponding node templates.

By creating new cloned views, and context through the OP 1.6-357 admin-ui, it works. Except, Advanced-Help reports these new views, and context are only available as data records in the database, and not as stand-alone files outside.

Is it better or worse?

Is there any way to have these views, and context ready for installation by cloning files and/or instructions inside some files of the OP 1.6 distribution?

Is it a totaly stupid way to proceed, in complete opposition of the Drupal philosophy?

And anyway, good or ugly, I hope helping other OP 1.6 explorers by detailling this approach of what is possible to (not) do...

Regards,

Thierry