views_fusion

It will likely be important to replicate the old profile.module functionality for clicking on a profile value to search for all of the other profiles that match that field. Obviously this doesn't make sense for long text fields but it does for any shorter text fields (favorite book=>'Old Yeller' ,) and for many other field widgets.

Could this be done using views or would it be much better to do in cck, or in cck output widgets?

IMHO: it should likely be done in cck, but not in the widgets.

If response dictates I can take this discussion to the cck group.

I've got a views integration for my nodeprofile modules working. This also works for general nodes, not only for nodeprofiles.

By doing the nodefamily views integration I ended in writing the module views_fusion:

With this module its possible to build views which display information of several nodes in one view - useful for tabular views.

This is achieved by defining multiple views, one for each node. Then the views fusion module is used to melt these views to a big one which contains all the information.

More information on this module

This module works great together with the nodefamily module, so it's possible to use nodefamily relations for joining the views/nodes. However I've written the module in a general way so that it's possible for other node relation modules to use it the same way.

Of course testers and feedback are welcome.. :)