views

Thank you to everyone that attended this event.

I wanted to point out some things we discussed as well as provide some links to them.

Sony BMG Musicbox was the presentation given early in the evening.
The site makes extensive use of:
- views -> http://drupal.org/project/Views
- panels -> http://drupal.org/project/panels
- node queue -> http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue

I just added a new slideshow mode to the Views Slideshow module. You can see a demo at Drupal Hub. It uses JQuery and views, so any type of view could be made into a slideshow. The current modes are single frame, as seen in the left sidebar of the demo page, and with 'thumbnails' as shown on the content of that page.

I also revamped the themes for it, making it easier to theme specific elements of the slideshow.

Hi. I'd like to document some links to Views2 UI mockups here. Links to the files have been bouncing around in IRC, maybe this can be a place for further thoughts on how Views2 could best present it's functionality to the user. I'll be updating any new screens here.

These all concern the “create new view” part of the UI, looking for ways to present all the available settings in a more compact layout.

first:
- views2-merlinsmockup.png

We have set up some bounties to help finance the development of OpenPackage Video. Each feature has an amount that must be raised before it will be implemented. We use the ChipIn system to manage donations. If you would like to contribute to the development of one of the features you can donate through its ChipIn widget.

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This is my first-ever drupal site. I started by trying to duplicate an ASB VBScript site that a long-lost developer did for me. When the old site's database corrupted a few weeks ago, it naturally accelerated my development of the drupal site. I pulled everything together and posted the beta as quickly as I could.

Hi - setting up a large ecommerce site with Views handling the catalog pages (about 12,000 skus). Last item remaining... I need to maintain breadcrumb/menu active state when users click from a view page to a node. Can modify these in the product.module, if I can get the referring view - this is what I'm trying at the moment (in Drupal 5.2):

First Attempt:
<?php
$last_page = substr(referer_uri(), 29); //trimming off the domain, whats left is the views path

if ( preg_match("/store/", $last_page) ) { //match if coming from a view page, they all start with store...

op_video-5.x-2.1 is now available from http://openpackage.biz/.

The main highlight of this release is that it is now backward compatible with mysql 3.23 and php 4.3.3 in line with drupal 5 core and also now works with db table prefixes. If you have had problems before, please give this release a try.

Other changes:
'max duration' transcoding parameter
JW FLV Player must be downloaded separately and decompressed in the op_video directory
other random bug fixes

op_video-5.x-2.0.tar.gz is now available from OpenPackage.biz.

Highlights of this release are:

Local FFmpeg transcoding

For videos to be viewed in-browser, they must be transcoded to FLV format. In addition to the existing method of transfering videos to OpenPackage.biz for transcoding, videos can now be transcoded using a local installation of FFmpeg.

Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you know about a new views related module, Dynamic Views. (http://drupal.org/project/dynamic_views) It allows you to dynamically update the main content area (no page reload) when you click a node link in a view block. It also allows you to change dynamically update a view using a filter at the top. You can combine it with some elements of the jquery interface library for some pretty cool effects. (see http://warnerbrosrecords.com/artists)

This patch to the Formtweaker module, modifies views filters, so they render as checkboxes and radio buttons, instead of select boxes and drop down menus.

Currently there is no way for a user to choose between rendering a filter as checkboxes/radio buttons, or as the default select menus.

How is it done?
How do I add this condition (as a checkbox in the exposed filter section I guess) to the views ui?